Adam Portrais
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It's hard to describe what genera "White Noise" would go in. In some ways it's a thriller/horror movie, but then again it has sci-fi elements as well mystery/who done it. Jonathan Rivers (Michael Keaton) is an architect married to Anna(Chandra West), a beautiful author who when coming home one night has a car crash but her body is not found. One morning Jonathan notices a man parked outside his house and then later at his office. The man's name is Raymond Price (Ian McNeice) who tells Jonathan that his dead wife has been contacting him. Rivers belives the man to be a nut but keeps his business card. Over the next six months Rivers tries to put his life back together. After moving he decides to talk with Price. At Price's house Rivers meets Sera (Deborah Kara Unger) who's fiance has communicated with her via EVP or Electro Voice Phenomenon (a way the dead communicate with the living through the static of modern audio and video equipment) of which Price happens to have an obsession with.
Jonathan gets contacted by Anna several times but soon it's not exactly what he expected. Through her contacts Jonathan will begin a quest to find out what happened to his wife among other things.
The mood of "White Noise" is close to that of "The Ring" but doesn't come close to the eerieness I felt when watching "The Ring." Over all there are a few "jump out at ya" scares along with the standard "fooled ya" and "double fake out" scares. Overall the story is told pretty well and the way that EVP is shown is a bit scary (I won't see noise on the TV or hear static on the radio the same again).
The main problem with this film is the ending. So many times movies are warpped up in a nice neat bow for the audience. I love it when a movie leaves everything open. Why does everything have to have a complete ending? It seems to me though that towrads the end the wirter, Niall Johnson, didn't exactly know how to end it so why not thow in the whole kitchen sink? "White Noise" is well acted, shot and edited but in the end it just lacked that special something.
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Jonathan gets contacted by Anna several times but soon it's not exactly what he expected. Through her contacts Jonathan will begin a quest to find out what happened to his wife among other things.
The mood of "White Noise" is close to that of "The Ring" but doesn't come close to the eerieness I felt when watching "The Ring." Over all there are a few "jump out at ya" scares along with the standard "fooled ya" and "double fake out" scares. Overall the story is told pretty well and the way that EVP is shown is a bit scary (I won't see noise on the TV or hear static on the radio the same again).
The main problem with this film is the ending. So many times movies are warpped up in a nice neat bow for the audience. I love it when a movie leaves everything open. Why does everything have to have a complete ending? It seems to me though that towrads the end the wirter, Niall Johnson, didn't exactly know how to end it so why not thow in the whole kitchen sink? "White Noise" is well acted, shot and edited but in the end it just lacked that special something.
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