Disappointing...I've seen some of the Danish director's films. To go from the Dogma Creed to this just goes to show the pressure to toe the Hollywood line.
Del Toro is the only interesting face in the whole show- always watchable. His battle with addictions is believable and gripping.
The rest? Halle Berry has a few believable moments, Duchovny is bland as ever; the whole thing "family" thing is so clichéd. Ironically Halle's character's inability to move on with life reminded my of a similar local story (in West Vancouver where the film may well have been shot) with the widow of a man killed by a young man at a house party actually befriending the man who killed her husband. As a way of dealing with her loss.
I found the music especially hackneyed - the use of some kind of Middle-Eastern clarinet to signify melancholy especially annoying.
Pass unless you have to see Del Toro.
Del Toro is the only interesting face in the whole show- always watchable. His battle with addictions is believable and gripping.
The rest? Halle Berry has a few believable moments, Duchovny is bland as ever; the whole thing "family" thing is so clichéd. Ironically Halle's character's inability to move on with life reminded my of a similar local story (in West Vancouver where the film may well have been shot) with the widow of a man killed by a young man at a house party actually befriending the man who killed her husband. As a way of dealing with her loss.
I found the music especially hackneyed - the use of some kind of Middle-Eastern clarinet to signify melancholy especially annoying.
Pass unless you have to see Del Toro.