I‘m always a bit skeptical when I see the Millenium Logo pop up before a film. They have a taste for aging stars and tried formulas (88 Minutes, Killer Elite, Trespass) but then they pop out something like Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant. Now I’m not saying that this new film with Sigourney Weaver, Robert DeNiro (and Cillian Murphy, Toby Jones and Elizabeth Olson) is going to be that exactly, but it’s directed by Rodrigo Cortés who turned out the pretty darn solid Buried, so I’d be willing to give this a shot even if the trailer gives it something of a conventional, I have a thing for The Amazing Randi, Michael Shermer and other debunkers doing their thing. I’m kind of confident there is something going on, because the filmmakers motive (note video below the trailer) appears appears to be able to look at the film itself for fakery while debunking fakery in the film. Nothing wrong with that, Orson Welles was doing it back in the 1970s to great effect and it’s noble to aspire to that, even in a genre film!
Psychologist Margaret Matheson and her assistant study paranormal activity, which leads them to investigate a world-renowned psychic who has resurfaced years after his toughest critic mysteriously passed away.
Oh, and if you are curious about the title, there is this:
For the most part, Millenium Films is a cesspit where terrible scripts are developed into straight-to-DVD crapfests. They are a movie-making factory, worried about quantity and how many movies they can get on the “new release” shelves than quality. They get big name actors because they pay well relative to the extremely short filming times.
It’s insane the amount of talent they attract, but look at their library and it’s bad, bad, BAD: http://www.millenniumfilms.com/FilmsLibrary.aspx
88 Minutes is still one of the most insultingly awful modern Hollywood movies I’ve EVER watched.