Mary is far too nice about this movie, and my sister--well she is thinking with something other than her brain. Like Mary, I read the book by Dean Koontz and really liked it a lot! Unlike Mary, I read it after seeing this very poor adaptation. Gee if only...
I can't stomach Alicia Silverstone. The girl can't act her way out of a paper bag. She gives a horrendous performance. Maybe that's why Koontz walked out on a screening!
Jeremy, as usual, tries his best to give us a character with some life in him--even if he is actually undead lol! He ends up with an amusingly deadpan serial killer who wears lipgloss. The only thing I thought could have been done better is for him to be more evil. He just didn't scare me the way I hoped he would have--even for a satan worshipper. As a matter of fact, the suicide at the beginning seemed more campy than frightening. Poor Alfred Molina didn't quite know what to do with this material. Jeff Goldblum seemed a little lost too. Even Christine Lahti, who does seem to get the gist of things, clashes with the ridiculousness of the way this story was adapted for the big screen.
Too bad--it could have been a really great movie. As Mary has said, a decent adaptation has yet to be brought from a Dean Koontz book. In the hands of people like the ones behind "Hideaway", it's just another mess. What was the deal with turning Regina from the book into the idiot in the movie anyway!
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