don't read it if you don't want to know what happens
I just saw the movie "Dark Water." It was by the same people who made "The Ring," and you could definitely tell. I will now proceed to :
It had the same basic plot: attractive single mother (Jennifer Connelly) with small, enormous-eyed, spookily well-spoken child (although in this case, the child was a girl, not a boy) deals with malicious (or not? hm!) entity, here again the spirit of a drowned little girl. Haunting proceeds by the typical protocol: mysterious noises, child having visions, and of course, the unexplained appearance of water everywhere. In my opinion, this film would have been greatly improved if the water had been replaced by, say, canola oil. It would have at least given the film a bit of action. I'm not saying it was boring, I'm just saying that it was formula. Anyway, after the drowned kid reveals herself as the reason for the noises and water and all that, the mother of course finds the body, floating conveniently at the top of a water tank atop the apartment building in which mother and daughter live. Of course, the story is not yet over: as we've learned from "The Ring," you can't put an unhappy spirit to rest just by burying its body. I won't be a total bad sport and ruin the ending--it does have an interesting twist--but for the record, the first version of this movie was superior by far. Oh, but it does have the added advantage of making you feel all-over gross because of the apartment into which mother and daughter move.
Anyway, good night.
It had the same basic plot: attractive single mother (Jennifer Connelly) with small, enormous-eyed, spookily well-spoken child (although in this case, the child was a girl, not a boy) deals with malicious (or not? hm!) entity, here again the spirit of a drowned little girl. Haunting proceeds by the typical protocol: mysterious noises, child having visions, and of course, the unexplained appearance of water everywhere. In my opinion, this film would have been greatly improved if the water had been replaced by, say, canola oil. It would have at least given the film a bit of action. I'm not saying it was boring, I'm just saying that it was formula. Anyway, after the drowned kid reveals herself as the reason for the noises and water and all that, the mother of course finds the body, floating conveniently at the top of a water tank atop the apartment building in which mother and daughter live. Of course, the story is not yet over: as we've learned from "The Ring," you can't put an unhappy spirit to rest just by burying its body. I won't be a total bad sport and ruin the ending--it does have an interesting twist--but for the record, the first version of this movie was superior by far. Oh, but it does have the added advantage of making you feel all-over gross because of the apartment into which mother and daughter move.
Anyway, good night.