Hide and Seek (2005)

I am misrepresenting when I actually watched this movie, which is technically cheating I suppose...but I watched it a few weeks ago, and just didn't blog about it because I was in the heat of Oscar season. So, okay, I watched this movie. I expected to at least like it a little, because I love Robert DeNiro, and I really think that Dakota Fanning is amazing. I think she is by far, the best child actor I have seen since...I can't even tell you when. She is never going to annoy me, I am sure of this. So, I start to watch the movie...she is spectacular, the plot is good, its moving along, I am getting freaked out in scenes, the film is doing all the things good horror/thrillers do....I start second guessing what I think is going on....good stuff. Then we get to the ending.....awful...just awful. Not really predictible, just stupid. I thought it ruined what could have been an excellent movie. This is the third time in the past few years that I have watched a horrot type movie, enjoyed it up to the end, then had the end be so terrible, that it cancels out the good parts and left me with a crappy movie. This one was like that, The Skeleton Key was like that, and Identity (with John Cusack)was like that. Those movies were really good, and then they blew it with a stupid plot twist. I am all about plot twists, surprise endings like The Sixth Sense, or The Others....those were very well done. These three movies were just trying too hard to do that, and they ended up weakening the plot. I thought because of how bad the ending was...this movie was a waste of my time.