Cinema houses should actually start watching movies before they classify them under a specific genre. With a truck load of confidence they classified the Hilary Swank – Jeffrey Dean Morgan starrer The Resident as HORROR. 10 minutes into the movie, you are quite excited since the aura or mystery around the entire concept of the house is building up slowly but steadily. 20 minutes in and you are still rooted to the screen thanks to some great camera work and some brilliant use of sound as well as light by Finnish director Antti Jokinen who seems to be a great find – has done quite a good job for his first English movie (his previous works were some random science fiction pieces, short videos and TV documentaries all of them probably for TV Finland or something). 30 minutes into the movie, you start wondering when the alleged horror is about to start. Another 10 minutes and you are quite convinced that there is something missing out here and that there is no horror. 50 minutes in and you want to scream out, “Paisa Wapas”!!!! (I want my money back). At the end of the hour you are quite certain that this is not horror flick by a country mile. It is a random sex offender thriller which involves the so called villain watching the heroine through peep holes and one way mirrors and making out with her in the night when he has drugged her enough. What starts off quite promisingly completely loses steam mid way through and of course leaves you with a feeling of a wasted 2 hours.
Juliet Devereau (Hilary Swank) is a nurse at a local hospital. A complete workaholic, she finds her boyfriend Jack (Lee Pace) in bed with another woman – in THEIR bed!!!! Like most sensible women she walks out of the relationship (although you would be surprised at the number of women who are willing to accept their partners cheating on them) and starts her search for a new place to live in. But with her kind of budget in New York City, one can get a pigeon hole at best. So she goes from pigeon hole to pigeon hole till she finally finds a place which is ….. hello…. As good as a mansion – it is a bit away from the city and has the railroad running close by and some signal problems but for the price that is being asked it is a steal to say the least. It is owned by an extremely good looking young landlord, Max (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his grandfather August (Christopher Lee). The place has a very eerie feel to it but Juliet lets her desperation get the better of her and takes the place. Needless to say, there is a spark that builds into a fire between Juliet and Max. But will Jack be too thrilled about it?
As the risk of repeating myself – great start but doesn’t sustain the momentum. Antti could have done a much better job. Swank and Morgan come up with significantly below par performances. Disappointing overall. 5 on 10 at best. Actually missable.
Watch the trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4101347865/
Juliet Devereau (Hilary Swank) is a nurse at a local hospital. A complete workaholic, she finds her boyfriend Jack (Lee Pace) in bed with another woman – in THEIR bed!!!! Like most sensible women she walks out of the relationship (although you would be surprised at the number of women who are willing to accept their partners cheating on them) and starts her search for a new place to live in. But with her kind of budget in New York City, one can get a pigeon hole at best. So she goes from pigeon hole to pigeon hole till she finally finds a place which is ….. hello…. As good as a mansion – it is a bit away from the city and has the railroad running close by and some signal problems but for the price that is being asked it is a steal to say the least. It is owned by an extremely good looking young landlord, Max (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his grandfather August (Christopher Lee). The place has a very eerie feel to it but Juliet lets her desperation get the better of her and takes the place. Needless to say, there is a spark that builds into a fire between Juliet and Max. But will Jack be too thrilled about it?
As the risk of repeating myself – great start but doesn’t sustain the momentum. Antti could have done a much better job. Swank and Morgan come up with significantly below par performances. Disappointing overall. 5 on 10 at best. Actually missable.
Watch the trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4101347865/
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