Review – Hide and Seek

This is one of those movies where from the first moment you see the family cat you instantly know she isn’t going to make it to the end of the picture. Ditto with Elizabeth Shue. We also have a host of other small problems throughout, not the least of which is that Robert DeNiro is a bit too old to play a guy with a kid Dakota Fanning’s age. Unfortunately this entry is the latest in a long line of productions in which the only real pleasure to be had is in figuring out the turn of the screw before the screw actually gets turned. The big drawback to such movies in the age of DVDs is that technology now makes it possible to pinpoint the precise minute and second where the twist becomes obvious (just about exactly 36 minutes in for me). And that of course leaves you with an all-too-accurate calculation of how many minutes and seconds of your life you wasted waiting for the story to catch up. Insult to injury is that the damn thing keeps going for awhile even after they come out and tell you who Charlie is. End result: yet another un-thrilling thriller. See if desperate