Dark Water
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Metascore
52 out of 100

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5.3 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 44 Ratings

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  • Starring: Ariel Gade, Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly
  • 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)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 35
  3. Negative: 5 out of 35
  1. Slate
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    80
    Salles 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.
  2. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    75
    In 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.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Michael Rechtshaffen
    60
    With 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.
  4. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Pete Vonder Haar
    30
    Dark 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.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 28
  3. Negative: 11 out of 28
  1. SamV.
    8
    The adapted screenplay of Suzuki's story by Hideo Nakata is pretty good, but there are a lot of cliches in that storythat even the interference of the great director Walter Salles was able to fix it. It is not a horror movie like "The Ring" or "The Grudge", but it's very interesting as a suspense movie, that is saved by the great actings, photography and the director's vision. Dark Water is a suspense movie without arrogation and far away from the overproduction status, but the aftermath is great!… Expand
  2. Carchy
    7
    Dark Water isn´t good horror, but it has a dark and icy atmosphere. Jennifer Connelly and Ariel Gad are very good.
  3. Shai
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is a great movie it wasn't a horror movie but the environment shown in the movie is very thrilling which makes the film interesting to watch. It has lots of emotional attacments that is the relation between a mother and daughter its very touching somehow....… Expand
  4. Lynn
    4
    Probably had potential with this cast, but somebody let set production take over. Too "dark" and too much "water", with too little suspense and flow to the story line. Can we let the Japanese keep their scary movies, and write some good ones like we used to?… Expand

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