Protraph Lack of good storyline.

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

psykosean I figured out the ending in the first 15 minutes of the film. What boring dreck from otherwise fantastic actors. Must have been a desperation paycheck kind of film. Don't waste your time

SnoopyStyle Ruby Baker (Leelee Sobieski) is orphaned when her parents die in a car crash. She and her brother moves in with family friends Terry (Stellan Skarsgård) and Erin Glass (Diane Lane). When she starts wondering about their substantial trust fund, the Glasses turn on them.Leelee Sobieski is too damn calm. That's a big no no in a horror movie if she wants to be the frightened little girl. There is some great potential for super creepiness. Stellan Skarsgård is able to project that creepy old guy. But it never elevates to the level of a scary movie. It ends up being a weak scare and perfunctory action. And the start seems to have been negated by the move. The whole thing seems simplified and shallow.

Patrick Lockett I started off watching this movie with generally high hopes of it being a decent film. Very quickly though it became apparent it wasn't. It was just so clichéd and boring. Also a lot of stuff happening in the film didn't make sense. For starters when Ruby goes and sees the lawyer and tells him about all the problems she is having at the Glass home, he goes on about how if she doesn't stay with them she and her brother become wards of the state. This does not make sense since Ruby and her brother have an uncle who would be more than happy to take them in they set this up right at the start of the movie. the lawyer does send a social worker to check out the house though, but at the end of the movie you find out he had warned Mr Glass about her coming. Last time I checked isn't breaking attorney client privilege illegal? or at least will get you disbarred? Also in the movie you find out Mr Glass killed the parents of the children, so he could get guardianship of the kids and have access to their 4 million dollar trust fund. This really doesn't make sense when you consider that the parents moved away the Glass's 10 years ago, so we are meant to believe that in 10 years time the Bakers (the parents) never updated their will? Mr Glass plan all rested on him and his wife still being the legal guardians of the kids when their parents died. In the end it was just a boring movie with lots of plot holes and a lot of moments that didn't make sense.

alannasser What confirms this movie as a watchable thriller are two things: its fairly artful adherence to the best conventions of the genre, and the far above average performances of its principals, with a good villain an especially important requirement. I have hitherto been unimpressed with the work of Leelee Sobieski (spelling?), but here she does well, perhaps because her character is so distressed that Sobieski's standard expressionlessness comes off here as depression that is appropriate to her character. Diane Lane and Stellan Skarsgard put in skilled and nuanced performances which elevate the movie more than a few notches. Daniel Sackheim's pacing and montage are uncommonly good. This is a fine popcorn movie.