Review of The Mothman Prophecies (2002) by Noah E — 08 May 2010
★½.
A well-acted, well-shot, yet tediously boring "thriller" that exhibits a complete lack of thrills, and only serves to frustrate you with its failure to provide a conclusion after wasting two hours of your life you can never get back.
The movie follows Richard Gere's John Klein, whose wife dies after witnessing a strange supernatural phenomenon. Two years later, fate brings him to the town of Point Pleasant, in West Virginia, where he finds that his wife wasn't the only one seeing the strange vision.
The premise is interesting, if unoriginal, and the movie had potential. However, it fails generate any tension at all, moves at a slug's pace, unearthing more subplots as it goes, then ends feeling like half a movie. And by the time you arrive at the end, you simply don't care anymore.
This review of The Mothman Prophecies (2002) was written by Noah E on 08 May 2010.
The Mothman Prophecies has generally received positive reviews.
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