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Terrific first hour and fifteen minutes and then… When I first seen the trailer for “Hide and Seek” about 3 months or so ago, I have to admit it intrigued my interest right from the get go. So finally today January 28, 2005 “Hide and Seek” arrived in theaters. Before I go to any movie just for the hell of it, I usually look at what the critics say about the movie. “Hide and Seek” got pretty average to below average reviews but almost every thriller even the terrific “Saw” got average to below average to reviews. But hey at least it wasn’t like “Alone in the Dark” which got awful reviews and will probably be runner up for worst movie of the year along with Elektra. But anyway back onto topic, I went to see “Hide and Seek” at the 1:15pm showing this afternoon before the crowd of annoying teenagers hit later that evening and below is what I thought about the film. “Hide and Seek” stars Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning, one of which who is an aging star who seems to star in about five movies a year and only one of those tend to be half way decent. The other is a child star that will continue to rise in the future. “Hide and Seek” is a movie about a family who on the surface seems to be happy but then deep down there not. The husband David (Robert De Niro) and his wife Alison (Amy Irving) have been fighting and then one night as they go to bed, Alison wakes up and kills herself. David wakes up and goes to the bathroom where he finds his wife dead. While David tries to check to see if she is alive his daughter Emily (Dakota Fanning) walks in and sees mommy dead. Emily is then traumatized and David thinks it would be best for them to move out of the house so that they don’t have to remember the horrific event that occurred there. But it’s not until David and Emily move to this new town when Emily meets her imaginary friend Charlie and then weird things begin to happen. An intense movie ensues… All I have to say is that WOW this movie could have been terrific. I mean just terrific because for the first hour and say fifteen minutes, I was hooked. This creepy little girl was really interesting. And who the hell is this Charlie she keeps talking about? I mean intense. Then all of a sudden the twist occurs and that’s when the movie lost me. I swear I thought I knew the outcome at the beginning of the movie say 2 minutes in but I was no that’s too simple it can’t be the ending. Sadly, it was and it pissed me off because I wanted it to be different. Hey even if it was like I first thought it was, it still could have been better executed. What the hell happened? Everyone in the theater was involved even the two little girls who paid to see “Fat Albert” but then snuck into “Hide and Seek” were hooked on the movie but then it got stupid and I am sorry I have to say that stupid! And that’s when it lost the entire audience. Laughing started and the whole intense atmosphere of the movie was gone. Even I had to chuckle a little bit at it because wow how typical could you make it. I sitting here now can thing of more than one way to have made the movie work. I mean several ways, which I am not going to write out because I don’t want to really spoil the movie for anyone but seriously what the hell happened in the last 20 minutes? For once for most of the movie, I really thought Robert De Niro had a good role. I am talking about a serious role because the man has been in some crap over the past few years. The only thing I liked him in was “Meet the Parents” and “Meet the Fockers” but hey that’s not the roles Mr. De Niro used to play. For the first hour and fifteen minutes of the movie, Robert De Niro’s acting was good. I mean very believable. You liked the character, you felt bad for all what happened to him, it was a good role for him but like I said after that hour and some odd minutes it was just bad, I mean laughable bad. It went from a well-written serious character to a joke. Dakota Fanning on the other hand was actually good all the way though even when the movie got bad. She freaked me out the whole movie and why people in the film were calling her cute was beyond me because she was scary looking. I have to give her a bravo for her role though. There were a few supporting roles like Famke Janseen who played Katherine who was friends with David, Elisabeth Shue who played David’s new interest in life after his wife’s death, and Dylan Baker who played the sheriff. All of them did a decent job but none of them were really important only De Niro and Fanning. “Hide and Seek” was written by Ari Schlossberg who wrote the film “Lucky 13” which is not out on video yet and was in such limited release no one got to see it. But other that, Ari Schlossberg is a first time screenwriter. What I have to ask is what happened with the script here buddy? I mean, a really good script until the last 15 pages. What happened? You had good characters, good plot, good pace, good action, and then all of a sudden you just seemed to email this review to a friend
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