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Crappy film

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Demon children horror movies are not really my thing. I mainly watched this movie because of Josh Holloway. Even though I am not a fan of the genre I did see a few and I must say I saw nothing original for this genre in this movie.Characters are all incompetent fools. Sure, I can see they had no experience kidnapping children, but the mistakes they kept on making were idiotic. I especially couldn't stand Roxanne. A typically annoying child obsessed woman. She is so dumb she has no problems showing the kid her face, yelling out her friend's names when talking to police and being over protective of that kid even after she finds out he is an evil little creepo. When she got killed I was just happy about it. Max is also overprotective I must say, took him way too long to finish this little devil, unbelievable he kept on refusing.The only character I liked was Vincent. Now that guy had some reality comprehension. His death scene was also the best done one. The only moment that really felt like part of a good thriller.When it comes to actors than I must say they all were good. I am sorry for them that as being such talented people they had to play such awful roles. Actually it seems Josh Holloway's part was written just based on Sawyer. He is Sawyer, I see nothing different about his acting, I just like this character less as he is 10 times more dumb and has no chance to be charming. Was curious to see how it went for all of them and it is good to know that they all had good careers, besides the kid who seems to have taken a break after it. But as I see he is back as a stuntman.So yes, I can't give this movie an above average rating as I see no originality, a bad script and that in no moment was it actually scary or unpredictable. I just throw in a few points for the fact that the actors were good, they made a beautiful scenery with all the snow even when filming in summer and that good camera work doesn't make one feel that the movie was shot in an amateur basement, but I doubt I would ever want to watch it again.

I've always enjoyed the evil-vs-evil sub-genre, even though the plot eventually turns into a classic good-vs-evil struggle. Those films are rare, and that much sweeter when they do show up. A demon in the guise of an 8 year-old boy gets kidnapped and ends up having a lot of fun – along with the viewer - with this luckless captors. Most "evil children" horror flicks suck, either because the kids are awful actors or simply due to the fact that when children perpetrate grievous evil deeds they look as ridiculous as talking/gun-wielding monkeys in futuristic sci-fi bombs. There are always the pleasant exceptions though. Certainly some people will moan about this being too much like "The Omen", but "Whisper" is far better than that movie. It also has a finale somewhat reminiscent of "The Shining", but who cares.The kidnappers are a mixed bag, as was to be expected. A small minus is the fact that half of them are far too nice to be snatching other people's children for ransom. The female kidnapper hasn't got a bad bone in her body; in reality, such a woman would be more akin to an Aileen Wournos than a Mother Theresa. (Well, actually Mother Theresa was more demonic that ten of those demon kids combined, but I use her name to make a point and not to un-blemish her tarnished name.) Her boyfriend is also far too nice to be a former felon. But there you go – that's left-wing Hollywood for you; they always have and always will either glamourize the criminal mind or trivialize/diminish his/her evil. Not that this movie has any political agenda – for once. It's becoming difficult these days to find an American movie that doesn't contain at least an ounce of liberal propaganda, and this goes even for the horror genre. I like the fact that they didn't get the kid to overact. I mean, the director could have easily shown him Nicholas Cage or John Travolta films (or both: "Face/Off") to inspire him to mug and grimace like a bloody buffoon – which is doubly worse when a kid in a horror thriller does it. Instead, the kid merely throws a subtle smirk here and there, which says a thousand words. The movie has a strange, tiny sub-plot involving the rivalry between two detectives working on the case. No idea why they threw that in.

To be honest, I'm too sure what to make of this film.Acting, footage, story... all were OK, can't point my finger on anything specifically wrong, but neither on anything great. Nothing innovating or breathtaking, yet nothing bluntly disappointing.The kid is creepy, true. However, he's not creepy in any way we haven't seen before in the classic "creepy children" films like Children of the Corn and such. Also, it felt to me like there were some continuity holes in the story. Nothing visual (therefore nothing too blunt), but rather story-wise. All through the film the kid is presented as this diabolic creature with supernatural powers. Then how come the movie ended the way it did?Again, I can't say there was anything particularly wrong with this film, but there was nothing about it that would make it memorable. I'd say its worth watching if you come across it, but not worth going to trouble for.

Okay, I realize it's not very friendly to refer to any certain film with the words "weak – derivative – implausible" directly in the subject line, but "Whisper" truly is yet another umpteenth mundane and forgettable attempt at horror/thriller and I honestly don't see any reason to encourage anyone to see it. Everyone whose even remotely interested in the thriller genre has seen this type of story numerous times before, only … the vast majority of the other versions are quite superior. "Whisper" again revolves on an evil child, a 9-year-old called David, who terrorizes a bunch of adults. This time the adults are a bunch of dimwit criminals that kidnapped David for ransom, but obviously they didn't count on having abducted a brat from hell. David can plant murderous thoughts into people's minds, controls wild dogs and has telekinetic powers. Basically this means that he is more lethal than "Carrie" and Damien from "The Omen" combined. On top of that, he's also a manipulative little bastard and even manages to make the kidnappers mistrust each other. Needless to say the story of "Whisper" is overly silly and on the verge of preposterous even. There isn't any suspense to detect throughout the entire movie simply because the plot is too grotesque and the characters are totally uninteresting. The female lead can still count on some sympathy, but the movie stupidly undermines this by revealing her fade at the very beginning of the film already. As a horror picture, "Whisper" fails tremendously as well, with dull and totally laughable death sequences. Seriously, a heart-attack?!? Simply in order not to come across as an utterly negative sourpuss, I do want to emphasize that the film does feature a few bright elements as well. The snowy Maine filming locations, for example, are quite atmospheric and the young Blake Woodruff does a surprisingly impressive job as the little demonic bastard. And, last but not least, the soundtrack contains a terrific use of "Ring of Fire" by the almighty Johnny Cash and that alone deserves another extra point.