Don't Look NowI really wish that I hadn't had the ending for me spoiled (seriously, don't read any reviews, all the ones I've read like to talk about the ending) before I saw it, but still a good, though very quiet, thriller. It almost doesn't qualify as a thriller considering how calm it is, but through the whole thing you feel like something is up. Donald Sutherland plays a father who's daughter drowned in a pond and was unable to save her. We then does some restoration work in a church in Italy with his wife. His wife runs into a blind woman who claims to be psychic and that their daughter is fine in the afterlife. Though Donald Sutherland doesn't really by it, he sort of begrudgingly accepts it as it gives his wife joy. But slowly he becomes worried that his wife might be being taken advantage of by the psychic woman, or at least she is causing her to be too focused on life after death instead of just living (though he might have the same problem, in his way). Meanwhile, the psychic thinks Donald Sutherland might have psychic powers of his own. Is that why he is seeing something that... shouldn't be possible!
The first scene is masterful, cutting between Sutherland and the girl playing. The rest is good, but it is also very subdued. In fact, the most the think about it, the better it gets. I really like the fact that it is sort of rambling on the surface, but in fact the threads all tie together surprisingly well.
If you are expecting a mile a minute thriller, you will probably be disappointed. Still, it is also very beautiful and eerie and it doesn;t have the usual thriller arc. It's definitely worth checking out for a fantastic acting job from Donald Sutherland, who may be my one of my all time favourite actors.
Also, if they ever decided "let's have a Canadian Doctor Who..."
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