The Messengers (2007)

Summary: Ray and Denise have moved their family to North Dakota to escape their past in Chicago. They decide that they’re gonna make their $$ in the farming of Sunflowers. But from the moment they move into the new house, things just don’t look right. They meet a wanderer who is quite eager to help and needing a friend, Ray takes him in. But nothing, even the new helper, seems to be as it actually is and soon more than 1 person is seeing ghosts. Beware of the crows, beware of the neighbors, and beware of the messengers!           Overall: I thought the film had some tremendous promise but by the end I was spending more time figuring out why the plot holes were so big and the good scares were so small. Think of the film as it is...a small child who can’t speak, who sees the ghosts and no one else does. Now, if you have a kid, such as I do, really young...you know that they’ll just stare off into space and smile or babble or even point at nothing! Now watch the film movie, then watch your kid point and that can get sorta creepy. Are there ghosts in my house too? What’s my kid see that I don’t?           That’s scary! What’s not scary is wondering why the crows really were there...and never connected to anything at all. What is the medical reason the kid can’t speak because they barely touch on it. How come Ben can see the ghosts and the others can’t? Is that related to his speech issue too? If he could speak, would he not see the ghosts? And frankly, what is the real problem that mom and Jess cannot get along...yeah, yeah, yeah so Jess drove the car and hurt Ben. But the dad is either too lenient on the daughter, the mom is too harsh, or the daughter has done stuff like this before?           Too much more I needed to know! Had tons of promise but no delivery of the goods.           Comparison: The Shining meets The Birds

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