Watch Daniel Radcliffe shed his Harry Potter image in this dark and strange drama-thriller while nailing an American accent.
I used the word strange because for the first half of this movie, it was just a strange and weird experience - having no knowledge of what the story was about as the trailer didn't give too much away.
I thought Radcliffe's performance here was a vast improvement from his Harry Potter days and he's becoming quite the actor in his own right. This also prompted me to rethink my decision on skipping The Woman In Black and more interested now in Kill Your Darlings.
Other than Radcliffe driving the movie, nobody else really caught my attention; maybe only David Morse. And speaking of Morse, the Morse code used during the childhood days was a bit too easy to be realised by James Remar's character.
I have no idea what Heather Graham is doing in this movie though. She had such a small role and was very insignificant. Is this the kind of roles that she's been offered now? But even then, she didn't impress.
As for Juno Temple's character, she was supposed to be beloved by all; and yet we never saw why in the entire movie. She had no charisma and not enough screen time to really be of an impact in that sense.
Potential SPOILER in the next paragraph.
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I loved the beginning of the third act though. That was when I thought this movie went from good to great. But everything was let down by the way the movie ended. I would have been fine with less supernatural stuff. Plus the way the four friends met in the end, again, way too convenient an adaptation by Keith Bunin from Joe Hill's novel.
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Here's one time I would have preferred an alternative ending. But this was Alexandre Aja's better movie, though probably because he didn't write it.
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