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Created May 13, 2009 02:06AM PST • Edited May 13, 2009 02:10AM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Great 4.0

   While helping a handful of plane crash survivors cope with their grief, young psychologist Claire Summers (Anne Hathaway) begins to uncover conflicting accounts of the accident. At first, Claire believes that trauma is behind her patients’ wildly different stories – until the survivors mysteriously begin disappearing one by one. Now Eric (Patrick Wilson, Lakeview Terrace), a surviving passenger she has grown dangerously close to, may hold the key to unlocking the truth about the tragic incident in this shocking psychological thriller. -imdb

   Just to dumb it down a bit, this movie is about a psychologist named Claire. This young woman is called out to help 5 people deal with a plane crash that happened on the beach. All of a sudden, her patients start going missing and while trying to figure out the truth, she finds that the one person she’s gotten close to, a patient, may be the only one to help her realize the true tragety. All in all, a mix between “The Sixth Sense” meets “The Others”—- I guess not really all dumb-down…

4. Acting

   Great 4.0

   Now, from what I’ve seen, Anne Hathaway has always been a princess. “The Princess Diaries”, “Ella Enchanted”; just to name a couple of movies, but to see her in serious roles such as “Havoc” and this film, really puts her on the map. Stunning, as per usual, she displays a role filled with a deep yearning for the truth. She shows that she genuinely wants to help people, and it shows through out the film, when it turns out that she’s the one that needs the aid. (you can find out how, when you watch the movie)

   Patrick Wilson plays Eric, a surviver of the crash. At first he’s very mysterious and kind of aloof, but when you really get into the character, you realize that it was his only way to really cope with what was going on around him. He gets close to Claire, closer than any patient or Doctor should, but in reality, he’s trying to get to her…

   Everyone in the cast (Andre Braugher, Dianne Wiest, David Morse, Clea DuVall, just to name a few); they all show a bit of what happened in the crash and how everyone got to the point where they were. Great acting from everyone of them, I have to admit fully.

5. Male Stars Great 4.0

6. Female Stars Great 4.0

7. Female Costars Great 4.0

8. Male Costars Great 4.0

10. Film

    Very Good 3.5

    The boat scenes, the crash, the painting, the lighting, and the story; all tied in to make this film work. Personally, to show the stages of death in a way that is actually understandable, it’s pretty awesome, if you ask me.

11. Direction Very Good 3.5

12. Play Very Good 3.5

13. Music Very Good 3.5

14. Visuals Very Good 3.5
15. Content

16. Edge

    Risqué 2.1

    Definately a suspensful film. You really don’t know what’s going to happen next until you get to the mid-end of the fim, you start to put things together. Honestly, unless you’re not good at reading films, the ending was a shock. But for someone like myself, and a few others out there that watch as many movies as we do, the ending was pretty inevitable. But pretty much, I was still able to stay focused on the film. I’m glad about that. There was a small “love scene” in the film, but nothing too “bad”. Violence, well, some; in the crash scenes and a couple of shockers here and there, nothing drastic though.

17. Sex Titillating 2.1

18. Violence Fierce 2.1

19. Rudeness Salty 2.1

21. Reality

    Supernatural 3.1

    Not all too reallistic. I mean for people to survive a crash like that…. okay, highly unlikely, but hey, what do we know right? I can’t imagine how things would work out at the end of an ordeal like that, but who’s to say that something like that hasn’t happened? How else would someone go into great detail to write a movie about it. Someone had to go through something similar at some point. Even the most bizarre movies have a small hint of truth or life, even if it is farfetched.

22. Circumstantial Supernatural 3.1

23. Biological Supernatural 3.1

24. Physical Supernatural 3.1