Dahlia Williams (Jennifer Connelly) is starting a new life; newly separated with a new job and a new apartment, she's determined to put her relationship with her estranged husband behind her and devote herself to raising her daughter, Ceci. But when the strained separation disintegrates into a bitter custody battle, her situation takes a turn for the worse. Her new apartment -- ... dilapidated, cramped, and worn -- seems to take on a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water, and strange happenings cause her imagination to run wild, sending her on a puzzling and mystifying pursuit to find out who is behind the endless mind games.
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Another fabulous Holywood remake of Japanese horror movie
I watched this movie because I received 2 free screening preview tickets in UGC Cinema Boldon. I had no idea what movie it was while I came in to the cinema; however, I couldn't sit relaxing when it rolled on because it was so thrilling from the first two second to the end. No wonder when I realised that it was another Holywood version of Japanese horror movie I saw after The Ring (Ringu), The Ring II and The Grudge (Ju-on). Japanese does really know how to thrill us and Americans know how to sell it worldwide. Worth to watch.
In the case to persuade Hollywood studios to engage real directors more often, not just for their awards fodder, add Dark Water as Exhibit B, right after Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins. Brazilian Walter Salles, who previously directed the Oscar-nominated films Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries, guides this stylish remake through treacherous territory to create a distressing, subtly suspenseful film full of emotional resonance.
Like Batman Begins, Dark Water places a priority on character development and shuns the GameBoy/PlayStation pacing that plagues a lot of new movies. Salles walks a tightrope, balancing a serious, dramatic narrative involvin...
The ominous downpours that have drenched much of recent Asian cinema soak New York in Dark Water, the well-crafted but thoroughly unsuspenseful Hollywood debut by Brazilian director Walter SallesWalter Salles. Remake of the 2002 Japanese film of the same name from the progenitors of The Ring, novelist Koji Suzuki and helmer Hideo Nakata, is dripping with clammy, claustrophobic atmosphere, but ultimately reveals itself as just another mildewed, child-centric ghost story of little import or resonance. Commercial prospects look middling.
An initial shrewd decision, be it by screenwriter Rafael Yglesias, Salles or someone else, concerning the drama's setting e...
This was a lot better than I thought it would be. I thought it was going to be something like "lady in the water" and I didn't like that movie at all. I give this one 5/5. [SPOILER]
