BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

HFX2030 ... of how screen writers, casting angencies, exposure units, cameramen, cutter and directors can fail. The plot is just miserable meaningless, so i believe the script was once hidden in the "Room of Requirements" by a young Alfred Hitchcock with intension to hide it to future audiences and save them from wasting their time and money! As i am writing a review on this title, this somehow went terrbily wrong. Sometimes films with goofy plots can still be saved by good acting or at least by creating a remarkeble feeling to the viewer. Unfortunately all characters (including supporting actors) were miscasted. None of the casted actors go very well together. I am absolutely positive the caster was a one-eyed drunken pirate.As if this wasn't bad enough, the exposure and cutting disturbs furthermore. At one scene you see Maria and Mark at the kitchen table with a bright lamp above their heads filmed in "distance shot" - in "close up" you see shadows on their faces going mysteriously upside-down! Did the kitchentable turn into a lightbox or did the exposure guys accidently roll their joint with a page of the script? This could explain, why the camera starts hysterically shaking when someone is screaming. Almost unbearable!While watching this film for ten minutes, i wished an electricity blackout to happen at home just like in the movie. Unfortunately my better-half forced me to watch it till the end. She is for sure much more scary then this movie!

benegesserit20 This review contains spoiler, please do not read it before watching the movie.To put my opinion in a nutshell: Darkness was a huge disappointment for me mainly because its creator is much more capable than this proved by the fact that later he wrote and directed Rec and Rec 2.The movie is really weak both in terms of characters and storyline. Firstly we see a recap of an old crime (there are many old newspaper extracts about it, all in English, seems a bit unlikely for me) when seven kids were kidnapped and six got killed as well in an old house. 40 years later a family is moving to Spain (not really clear why) into an old house (you would never guess which one) where strange things start to happen. The family members are all featureless, indifferent, nothing like actual people. They hardly ever do that anyone in real life would do. As for the story, it is very predictable, almost boring. Well, dad goes crazy, finds some scary symbol under the floor. His daughter (Anna Paquin, who was unexpectedly a disappointment too) and his Spanish friend find the symbol on the internet at once (naturally) and casually there is a very old book with the same symbol on its cover available in the local library (btw I don't think that you can touch any book that the librarian carries around in rubber gloves). The book is about a ritual to awake the darkness. This is the point where you can easily find out from the description of this ritual what happened in the past and who is the next target and what will happen to this person, and it will just miraculously really happen that way.In conclusion, the story is quite boring, easy to find out and the whole thing just doesn't make much sense. As for the characters... well, I just couldn't care whatever happens to them. So I think you won't lose anything by skipping this movie.

Leofwine_draca DARKNESS is one of those 'all style, no substance' films. It looks impressive, with a dark and brooding atmosphere brought to the screen by REC director Jaume Balaguero, but that's all it is: a collection of mildly eerie scenarios floating adrift in search of a real story.I'll readily admit that I had no real idea of what the central storyline was supposed to be, or even why I was supposed to care. GAME OF THRONES's Iain Glen bags a decent role as a family man suffering from a rare genetic condition, but even his admittedly impressive scenes seem to have little to do with the central thrust of the tale.Instead it's all about mood building and horror clichés, with flickering lights and annoying shaky-cam work that makes it hard to see what's going on. Anna Paquin seems to have been cast for the sole purpose of wandering around in a little top, and Lena Olin's role is equally extraneous. The film really hurts from the lack of sympathetic characters, and even the reliable Giancarlo Giannini is given little to do.Come the mildly ridiculous ending, I wondered why I'd bothered sitting through this, because there's absolutely nothing that hasn't been done many times before.

fire-58 This movie looked very good when i got it, the back of the case made me very interested and i was excited to Watch it.Let me start by saying it took for EVER for the story to move on. I mean come on! The move to the house and then you watch them do stuff for like 4 days until something happens.I mean if i was the director of this movie i would have taken 4 or 5 of those days and cut them out, and made all that stuff happen in 2 days and then use the rest of the time on the details and explaining things clearer.I thought it was going to be scary. I did not think it was very scary at all. The only reason i don't give this movie a 1 is that the story was not a complete fail. The story did keep me interested for a while. Then the start took so long to get going by the time the first big thing happened i am was bored with the movie.I would skip this one, unless you can like borrow it from a friend and watch it when your sick or something.