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The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

You sit down in a cozy diner. It's familiar, like you've been to a thousand diners like that one before. Maybe you've been to them once a week, if you're into diners. And maybe when you go, they don't let you in because that particular diner — for whatever reason — only admits customers 17 years of age or older. I don't know.You order the "Hideaway" omelet, which you think will be good because the menu assures you that the ingredients come from an organic farm. The Dean R. Koontz Organic Farm, let's call it.The waiter comes out with your omelet and, lo and behold, your waiter is Jeff Goldblum!Goldblum says, "Here's your... ah... omelet, sir... or... or madam — I'm not sure of the... ah... exact... gender of the person I am speaking to," and then he puts the plate down in front of you.And it's just awful. Everything is lousy. Nothing works. Nothing is memorable. It looks like any ordinary omelet, except the ingredients all look fake and taste even worse. The bacon, which the menu brags is added in to make the omelet look cool, looks like it was made in the '90s, a decade notorious for its fake-looking bacon. To make matters worse, the whole thing reeks of cheese. It's all so cheesy.And though the ingredients are normal, everyday omelet ingredients — mushrooms, cheese, tomatoes, onions — they come together in an odd and confusing way. Not only that, but you also taste chocolate and apples and the faintest whiff of shrimp, even though none of these things fit in with your omelet. Plus, the more you eat the omelet, the messier it becomes. It isn't long before the undercooked eggs are splayed out all over your plate, and you consider leaving the diner right at that minute, but you remember that you're paying about $6 in 1995 money for this omelet. You can't just get up and leave it. Plus, you owe it to Jeff Goldblum to listen to what he has to say, even though he's talking about how he lost his daughter in a car accident and you don't even remember how he got on that subject to begin with.In fact, the only thing that makes the experience worthwhile is Jeff Goldblum, who just rambles to you the entire time you're eating that garbage omelet. He's holding a shotgun, too, for some reason. That's cool, you think to yourself. Jeff Goldblum looks like a badass when he's holding a shotgun.And when you've finished eating the omelet, Jeff Goldblum thanks you for your time and takes the plate back to the kitchen. You never see him again, but you decide that, in two weeks, when you've forgotten that you've ever eaten the "Hideaway" omelet, with its synthetic ingredients, confusing recipe, messy eggs and overwhelming cheesiness, you'll remember who it was that gave it to you: Jeff Goldblum.So maybe you'll be back to that diner to eat another meal with him, but you know one thing for sure: You're never going to order that goddamned omelet again.

Bland and boring in equal amounts, HIDEAWAY is a major disappoint all round. Although the skill involved is more than adequate in front of and behind the camera, the tepid plot and direction mean that the film is just too dull for its own good. Based on a Dean R Koontz novel (obviously not one of his best) and scripted by the screenwriter of SE7EN, Andrew Kevin Walker, the film at least had something going for it, but it totally lacks any of the disturbing force that SE7EN may have had.The use of a psychic link to a serial killer is nothing new and goes back decades, it has been done much better in the past. The killer in this case is a boy. That's right, a little Goth kid with greasy hair. Where's the terror in that? There is none. It's laughable. Jeff Goldblum puts in a mediocre performance and looks like he's sleepwalking through the role as the man tormented by visions, I usually like this actor but in this case he leaves me cold. His wife isn't much better, displaying emoting which seems to have been picked up from countless made-for-television movies. Alicia Silverstone is supposed to add some glamour but fails, just turning out as another obnoxious teenager in peril (which we've seen countless times). Alfred Molina and Rae Dawn Chong appear in small roles and are not given much to do.The thing I didn't like about this film was that it obviously thinks it's good, and it isn't. Major publicity was given to the 'original' special effects, computer effects nonetheless, which were supposed to be show-stopping. However they look just like they've come out of a computer game, with swirling tunnels and patterns which I could create on my PC if I wished to. Didn't THE LAWNMOWER MAN already do this? So what is there to recommend this film? A good horrible scene where Goldblum clutches a razor blade in his hand to make it bleed, and that's about it. Give HIDEAWAY a miss at all costs unless you want to be bored out of your brain.

While traveling on the road with his wife Lindsay (Christine Lahti) and his daughter Regina (Alicia Silverstone), Hatch Harrison (Jeff Goldblum) has a car accident, hitting a truck and falling with his wife in a river. He dies for more than two hours, but the specialist Dr. Jonas Nyebern (Alfred Molina) successfully brings him back to life. Hatch has some weird premonitions and becomes able to see through the eyes of the psychopath serial killer Vassago (Jeremy Sisto), a young man that killed his mother and his sister and committed suicide and was also brought back to life and now is killing young women and teenagers. When he foresees that Vassago is trying to capture his daughter, Hatch tries to find the criminal first, in spite of Lindsay, Regina and the detective in charge of the investigation believe that he needs psychiatric help."Hideaway" is another rip-off of "Eye of Laura Mars", I believe the first movie to explore the idea of a person connected to a serial killer through his eyes. "Hideaway" has a good cinematography and special affects, the cast is great and the sequence of the accident of Hatch and Lindsay is excellent. Although not being an original storyline, this attractive movie entertains. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "O Esconderijo" ("The Hiding Place")

I did enjoy this thriller, it was very suspenseful throughout, climaxing in a marvellous finish.Having read the book (which was brilliant) as well, I must say certain key aspects have been changed for the movie, like for example Regina's character.In the movie, Regina is Hatch's biological daughter - a blonde, green eyed, carefree, flirty teenager, while in Koontz' book Regina is a crippled, small-for-her-age but very smart ten year old orphan with "grey eyes and beautiful deep auburn hair", who is later adopted by Hatch and his wife Lindsey.Also, Hatch dies in a traffic accident in the movie and is resuscitated after two hours. In the book, Hatch drowns, but is brought back to life after just over an hour.Hatch is described as "five foot ten, 160 pounds" in the novel. Jeff Goldblum, who plays him in the film, is much taller at six foot four and a half and significantly heavier as well.Lindsey is blonde in the movie, but in the book she is described as a woman with "dark hair".So much for authenticity! At least they made an excellent choice with Jeremy Sisto, who played the mad serial killer Vassago very convincingly.If you happen to have read the book first, you can't help but notice the dissimilarities, but that surely didn't stop me from enjoying this movie a great deal. If you haven't read the book at all, this film will blow you away! Gina Skinner, near London, UK