- Studio: Buena Vista Pictures
- Release Date: Jul 8, 2005
- Starring: Ariel Gade, Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly
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Summary:
Based on a film by the creators of the Japanese version of the "The Ring" comes this haunting, chilling, film about a young mother who goes to extreme lengths to solve a
mystery and protect her daughter. (Touchstone Pictures)
- Director: Walter Salles
- Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Horror
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 35
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Mixed: 15 out of 35
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Negative: 5 out of 35
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80Salles brings an explorer's eye and breathless curiosity to this fetid milieu, and he gets the most brilliant performances imaginable for this sort of movie.
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75In a movie with more subtext than "Rosemary's Baby," nearly everyone, including Tim Roth as Dahlia's lawyer, harbors secrets. Salles unleashes a torrent of suspense for one purpose: to plumb the violence of the mind.
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60With his stirring visual sense very much intact here, Salles sets the creepy mood eloquently, but the picture -- ultimately fails to reward all the little shivers with any satisfying jolts.
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30Dark Water isn't a bad horror movie, simply because it isn’t horror at all: a full hour passes before anything remotely scary occurs, and all the suspenseful scenes take place in the final ten minutes (and are all fully shown in the trailer). What's left is tedium and a seemingly endless build-up to nothing much at all, making it a bad movie. Period.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 28
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Mixed: 4 out of 28
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Negative: 11 out of 28
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SamV.8
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Carchy7Dark Water isn´t good horror, but it has a dark and icy atmosphere. Jennifer Connelly and Ariel Gad are very good.
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7This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Lynn4
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