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hyped garbage

Good start, but then it gets ruined

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When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Perhaps the best example of movie being better than the book. The most effective parts of the movie are the small, vivid, almost unbearably poignant human moments. Extras were clearly the worst part of the film. There is a scene were two extras look like they are going to attack the actors for no reason.Soundtrack doesn't seem to be as timeless as the film itself Part Platoon part Blade Runner. It is a fast paced thriller, that will throw on the breaks at the appropriate time. Liev Schreiber gave the performance of his career putting him in the elite stratosphere of Bogart and Don Baker. Although not a fan Ben Affleck; I found his performance to be most explosive.

Sometimes titles truly belie their content. I was looking for ghosts, apparitions, specters, etc. and I got some other creature."Phantoms" wastes no time jumping into the action. Within five minutes of the film's opening credits we're treated to a dead body in a cozy little vacation town. The cause is unknown but soon the two female protagonists show us more dead bodies. They meet up with three armed men (and later more armed men) but that only produced an increased body count.The movie was mildly entertaining but it lacked any real umph. The scene was bleak enough with the absence of people and a slight haze, but the actors were too nonchalant and cavalier. There was no real sense of danger, I don't even think I saw any of them sweat. Even the most threatening and tense moments were met with a slight apprehension at most. It was all too clean and too textbook.

I would not call this movie a guilty pleasure, I've seen this movie several times and i still think the same thing, this film is a diamond in the rough, there was so much it could do better, had a good chance to exploit all kinds of possibilities, they could build up more the mystery around the town, The idea of the creature is similar to the one in the The Thing, and they just scratch the surface of what the monster what capable off, instead we get minor character development, secondary characters with no purpose than getting killed off quickly.This movie attracted a pretty stellar cast in their earlier careers, there are a lot of good names attached to it Peter O'Toole, Rose McGowan and Liev Schreiber,Ben Affleck, how could anyone refuse to watch this movie in 2015."Phantoms" is reported as being an adaptation from a Dean Koontz novel of the same name i never read it but it has a lot of similarities but the ending is different, i honestly would check the book other than that if you are curious give this movie a look.

Dr. Jennifer Pailey (Joanna Going) and her younger sister Lisa (Rose McGowan) arrive in the remote town of Snowfield, Colorado, only to find the inhabitants either dead or missing, having fallen foul of a subterranean creature that believes itself to be a god. While searching the town for signs of life, the sisters meet local sheriff Bryce Hammond (Ben Affleck) and his deputies, but even with the lawmen's added firepower, survival looks unlikely—at least until the arrival of a team of government agents and their unlikely expert on the 'ancient evil', tabloid journalist Dr. Timothy Flyte (Peter O'Toole).Based on the novel by Dean Koontz (who also wrote the screenplay), Phantoms starts off very promisingly with the Pailey sisters' nail-biting search of the town's seemingly deserted buildings: a few delightfully grisly discoveries, some truly eerie sounds and the gradually dwindling daylight keep the level of tension high and the viewer right on the edge of their seat. An attack by a bizarre flying critter that leaves Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle (Liev Schreiber) minus his face and several subsequent well-executed supernatural scares serve to heighten the horror.Unfortunately, with the introduction of O'Toole as Flyte, matters start to go downhill, the plot becoming more and more far fetched, eventually losing all sense of credibility during the inevitable showdown with the monster that involves the use of a handy experimental chemical that can break down the structure of oil—which just happens to be what the Lovecraftian creature is largely comprised of.However, despite its flaws, I'm happy to rate Phantoms a more than reasonable 6/10 simply for the wonderfully atmospheric first half, which surely served as inspiration for the successful 'Silent Hill' series of computer games.