Hide & Seek (15)

I really enjoyed the film. Throughout the film I was trying to guess who the killer was. Was it Dakota? Was it the man who lived next door? Or was it Dakota's invisible friend? Well, I never guessed the ending. The ending of Hide & Seek reminded me of the film Secret Window starring Johnny Depp, where throughout the film, he is trying to figure out who the killer is, but acknowledges that the killer is himself.

Overall, it is a great film!

Ending completly unexpected. I personally thought it was very scary but the plot kind of sucks you into the film so you could never turn it off.

I didn't think that Hide & Seek could be any worse than last years 'Godsend'...but it is. I am having trouble writing this review as I had almost forgotten the entire film after leaving the cinema. It wasn't good, I sat waiting for murders of anything that would raise the heartbeat as you would expect from a thriller but nothing. It would have taken a plot twist of Sixth Sense proportions to save this film.....but you could see it coming from a mile away.

Hide & Seek - If you're a fan of psychological thrillers then I would urge you to check out Hide and Seek. The film stars top child actress Dakota Fanning, who gave a great turn in Man On Fire opposite Denzel Washington, alongside screen icon Robert De Niro in this mysterious thriller. De Niro plays troubled psychologist David Callaway, whose wife has committed a gruesome suicide after being trapped in an unhappy marriage. Fanning is the couple's messed up daughter Emily who, along with David, found the body after the disturbing suicide.

Emily is one psychologically distraught kid, and David believes the only way to bring his daughter back into reality is by moving away to the sticks away from the painful memories of his wife's demise. Reluctantly, David sells up and moves himself and his daughter into a sleepy country area so he can devote time to her and get her away from the city and, of course, away from the suicide scene. By moving Emily into the country, however, the problems don't go away, but simply escalate to disturbing proportions. Emily is a loner, but this soon changes as she makes a new friend called Charlie. It doesn't take David long to deduce that Charlie is an imaginary friend, seemingly a comforting mechanism for Emily to deal with her troubles. However, it soon becomes clear that whoever or whatever Charlie is, he is anything but imaginary as sinister events begin unravel in the new family home.

If you're a fan of frightening films then you should definitely give this film a chance. Most viewers will be blown away by Fanning's haunting performance as the troubled child and as ever De Niro is on his game, this time as the worried father. Strong support is on hand to with Sandra Bullock popping up as Emily's psychologist and creepy townsfolk being involved in the country scenes, including a love interest for De Niro, a strange deputy and two neighbours who are not all that they seem....