lolidunno16
Could this film be any more cliché? Hide and Seek is about when a man finds his wife dead in the bathtub at two in the morning on New Year's Day and his ten-year-old girl daughter is traumatised and will not speak.Then we get cliché after cliché for 90 minutes, as well as a stupid and cop-out ending. I will not spoil the ending because I think people should see the stupid ending for themselves. We've seen this stuff before so many times. Schizophrenia has almost become a stock plot for horror films. Gone are the days of vampires and witches. It's all just about mental illness now. And you only have to see 15 minutes of the film to realise this.However, I will at least give them points for trying. They obviously tried very hard to make this a good movie. It just didn't work out. They tried to do a few twists, but they simply did not work.4/10.
TheBlueHairedLawyer
Donnie Darko, Magic, Dark Water, Imaginary Playmate, these are just a few of the tons of films made over the years featuring malevolent imaginary entities. Hide and Seek is typical. Emily, played by the overused and rather annoying actress Dakota Fanning, is a little girl whose mom just committed suicide. Her dad decides to move with her out of the city to a country home. Emily tells her dad about Charlie, an imaginary friend she has created. As it so happens Charlie isn't just an imaginary friend.Typical.I have an imaginary friend; movies that portray them as signs of insanity annoy me because it really isn't true. Mind you it is a fictional movie, a horror movie no less. Still, it'd be a lot better if it didn't have Dakota Fanning in it. Just like the child actresses Chloe Moretz and Drew Barrymore, Dakota Fanning is used way too much in too many movies, is not a very good actress and is kind of annoying. It makes the movie less believable to see the same girl as you see in tons of movies. If you're bored and like a basic horror movie then you might like this one, but it isn't a very good one.
Funky Monkey
This film was a really great horror movie, even though the cat dies. The actors had been chosen perfect for the roles they were given. Robert De Niro had the film unstoppable,it was as if he lost his identity which obviously was the intention. To conclude Dakota Fanning made the film more thrilling, what I mean by this is that she looked normal and it was like she knew what to do even though she was incredibly scared. Overall the film is extremely entertaining and the plot was done really smart to make everything seem OK when everything was definitively not. " Come out come out whatever you are" Great film hope you enjoyed my opinion.
djbabu_30
In a normal family of New York City, David Callaway (Robert De Niro) is a psychologist who has to face the mysterious suicide of his wife. Unfortunately this tragic incident is causing a big trauma to his little daughter Emily (Dakota Fanning). David decides to move to the countryside to to give all the support and make her to forget what happened, but things became even worse and very weird. In the new house Emily's imaginary friend named 'Charlie' takes control over her behavior. Somebody wants to play hide and seek but neither David nor little Emily seems to enjoy this apparently innocent but dangerous game. The most scary movies are the ones where a child plays a significant role, Dakota Fanning is quiet scary. An unusual performance of Robert De Niro not the best of his famous career.