This film fails miserably in evoking the emotions and fears of the original and the fault for this lies everywhere, in nearly every frame of the film...and squarely on the shoulders of an inept director who, it seems, has never watched a horror film in his life.
It gets an extra star from me because Liev Schreiber was really quite good as Robert Thorn. Otherwise, the film felt overwrought with extremely tired horror film clich?s and a score that certainly left something to be desired in spite of my opinion that Marco Beltrami is normally a better composer than this...if not entirely original either.
I think that's the fault of remakes...they're not original and yet audiences pay for insipid messes like this therefore more insipid messes are made and whoever gave the green light on these ill-conceived projects gets a pat on the back.
Do yourself a favour: go watch the original again. This film isn't fit to share the name of the first three...in point of fact, this film might rank right down on the list with the fourth Omen movie.
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This film fails miserably in evoking the emotions and fears of the original and the fault for this lies everywhere, in nearly every frame of the film...and squarely on the shoulders of an inept director who, it seems, has never watched a horror film in his life.
