Right after preparing for the divorce, Dahlia moves with her daughter Cecilia to a run-down apartment because she could now pay for a better department as she lacks of money. Feeling panic because of the weird sounds, Dahlia tries to figure out what is going on with the apartment. It turns out that it is a soul of a prior habitat.
A tasteful but unremitting bummer and yet one more case of an Oscar-winning actress proving that she can still do the kinds of disposable movies big awards are supposedly meant to banish from your résume forever.
This murky urban ghost story about a possible haunted hi rise of horrors, basically lets the all-natural creepiness already native to its NYC landscape just do its deadly thing, likely intensified by 9/11's architectural carnage.
ComingSoon.net
March 18, 2011
The supporting characters, in fact, are the most enjoyable part of the film, often more enjoyable than Connelly or Gade, each taking great advantage of their scenes to create real people in a short space of time.
Like so many recent thrillers of this ilk, many of them in some way exploiting the 'innocence' of childhood -- the dumb and unpleasant Hide and Seek springs to mind -- Dark Water falls apart in the wind-down.
This is an eerie, relentlessly grim, invasive little movie -- a tone poem of despair that seeps into you like the damp.
ColeSmithey.com
April 16, 2009
Esteemed Brazilian director Walter Salles ("The Motorcycle Diaries") falls flat on his face on his first Hollywood outing with a horror movie that will bore you to tears.
