Movie Reviews: Possession
POSSESSION (2009)
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Lee Pace, Michael Landes
What It Is About
Jess (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is happily married to Ryan (Michael Landes), who is like a fairy tale prince and remains sincere and adorable even when she forgets their anniversary. There is one thing though that disturbs their happiness: Ryan's scary and delinquent brother Roman (Lee Pace) is staying with them. One day, tragedy strikes and an automobile accident leaves both Ryan and Roman in a coma. When Roman awakes, he thinks that he is Jess's husband, his brother. As he reveals intimate knowledge to her that only Jess and her husband can know of, Jess is left wondering whether the spirit of her husband has returned to her in the body of his brother or whether Roman is just playing mindgames with her...
What's Good
What's Bad
Bottom Line: 2 out of 5 stars
Overall, it's a cheesy and predictable B-movie-thriller with a few random supernatural elements thrown in that you would expect it to be a made-for-television-movie produced for a television network like Lifetime. No wonder it went straight to DVD. Disappointing that they don't made use of the actors or the interesting idea behind the movie. They could have turned this into a thought-provoking movie if there had been better writing/a better story involved. The performances and visuals make the movie still watchable, but don't expect too much.
It's pretty much everything you would expect after watching the trailer:
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Lee Pace, Michael Landes
What It Is About
Jess (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is happily married to Ryan (Michael Landes), who is like a fairy tale prince and remains sincere and adorable even when she forgets their anniversary. There is one thing though that disturbs their happiness: Ryan's scary and delinquent brother Roman (Lee Pace) is staying with them. One day, tragedy strikes and an automobile accident leaves both Ryan and Roman in a coma. When Roman awakes, he thinks that he is Jess's husband, his brother. As he reveals intimate knowledge to her that only Jess and her husband can know of, Jess is left wondering whether the spirit of her husband has returned to her in the body of his brother or whether Roman is just playing mindgames with her...
What's Good
- Sarah Michelle Gellar and Lee Pace, while not well-known movie stars, are both capable and severely underrated actors that have a hard time finding projects that enable them to showcase all their talents. Their performances in the film are stellar.
- The cinematography is beautiful and subtle. Probably makes the movie look more expensive than it really was.
- Have I written that Lee Pace is one of my biggest celebrity crushes of all time, while Sarah Michelle Gellar remains a person that I admire endlessly?
- There is an interesting idea behind the movie, which you could explore in many interesting ways, but sadly.....
What's Bad
- .....this is just a predictable thriller-of-the-week-story full of plot-holes that doesn't make use of the endless opportunities with which they could make the story profound, poignant and touching..
- The characters are one-dimensional clichés.
- The ending is pretty abrupt and stupid. After the climax you keep waiting for a clever twist that somehow saves the movie, but it doesn't happen and the movie ends when you still expect SOMETHING, ANYTHING to happen.
Bottom Line: 2 out of 5 stars
Overall, it's a cheesy and predictable B-movie-thriller with a few random supernatural elements thrown in that you would expect it to be a made-for-television-movie produced for a television network like Lifetime. No wonder it went straight to DVD. Disappointing that they don't made use of the actors or the interesting idea behind the movie. They could have turned this into a thought-provoking movie if there had been better writing/a better story involved. The performances and visuals make the movie still watchable, but don't expect too much.
It's pretty much everything you would expect after watching the trailer:
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