The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

The first half of the movie is an in-depth psychological thriller, where a psychologist, played by none other than Juliane Moore, is investigating an interesting patient, who seems to be suffering from split personality disorder It gets really interesting as we get taken deeper and deeper into the lives of his split personalities, everything seems to add up and form a strong plot, up until they decide to ruin this movie in a sense by introducing a new reality - turns out these are not split personalities, but souls. This turns everything upside down and now this is a religious voodo shaman type of movie with witchraft and exorcisms. In my opinion, you can only go one way or the other, the premise was really great, up until the half way point i was really intruiged purely by the psychological investigation and delving deeper into the minds of Adam/David. The movie is not horrible nor is it great, they should have gone with the premise without introducing all the voodoo witchcraft. Nonetheless there is great acting, beautiful scenery at times and by no means it is a boring watch! Watch and decide for yourself, not the worst flick you will ever see.

The film begins with promise; a great plot, based upon a soul sucking entity that at first appears to be a man with a split personality. It works well, with a battle of intellects between a psychiatrist (played by Jeffrey DeMunn) and his daughter (also a psychiatrist) played by Julianne Moore. The scene with Frances Conroy (as Mrs Bernburg) coming face to face with her deceased son in the body of Jonathan Rhys Meyers is superb. Sadly the film nose dives with one key plot area - that of doctor Dr. Charles Foster (John Peakes) and his illness (presumably transmitted from Rhys-Meyers' multiple personality character, being left untreated...Why would a doctor (with ample opportunity to visit another doctor in the hospital where he worked) not seek an urgent diagnosis for a life threatening and uncomfortable condition? Worse still, the plot device is used a second time with a second doctor! Other let downs include the time line issue with Monty Hughes (Charles Techman) being too young to have been a young boy in 1918 (though in other aspects that part of the story works well) and the "Granny" who is supposedly doing the work of the Lord, being more like a demonist in her methods. As a Christian film it fails, but as a detective/thriller film it works. It could have worked as a Christian film, had the fates of the main characters been different, with the message of good triumphing over evil unambiguous.

Dr. Cara Harding (played by Julianne Moore) is a forensic psychiatrist whose faith in God has been shaken but not totally broken due to the death of her husband, yet her belief in science stays strong. She herself is a great mind in her field but isn't open to accepting anything new in the area of unexplained psychiatric theories, her father (played by The Walking Dead's Jeffrey DeMunn) introduces her to Adam,(played with a uncanny brilliance by Dracula's Jonathan Rhys Meyers) a patient with multiple personalities who also takes on the impossible physical characteristics of his other personalities.Jonathan Rhys Meyers, is a Irish born actor who is completely mesmerizing in character. When he tackles multiples accents from various distinct areas in the US, you question yourself he is Irish or not, it's a truly a amazing thing to hear. He has such a strong presence whether he is playing weak, fragile, or strong & terrifying you just can't take your eyes off of him. His chameleon-like ability even surpasses Edward Norton's performance in PRIMAL FEAR.As the story continues, the personalities get more intense as we begin to get various back stories as well as present abnormalities in the possibility that "ADAM" is faking this condition. It's not till later on that a sinister presence is introduced and completely takes Dr. Cara Harding and her father for a complete mindfuck. Once this presence makes it self known Cara quickly discovers that the more she finds out about Adam and his past, the closer she and her loved ones are to becoming murder victims themselves.This film has a wonderful buildup and the tension itself well written. The visuals are well done and are quite believable. The acting in my opinion is top notch and it has enough scares as well as psychological aspects to keep you on the edge of your seat until the final twist at the end.

This is your typical ghost thriller. People start dying under strange circumstances, there is a main character who is somehow caught in the middle of this, obviously a woman, has a little child, who is also female, as well as other family connections and she is as representative as they could make her: Christian, middle class, white.However there are several problems that go beyond merely cliché. First of all there is the length, two full hours. Then there is the complete and utter lack of character development. Everyone, and I actually mean everyone, including the main character, are cardboard versions of human beings, robbed of any chance of turning into something else. Worse, as cardboard as they are, they are barely sketched. So that leaves the story: is it thrilling, scary or both? It is none of the above. It is slightly mysterious, I give it that, and the reason for it is that the writing is too confused to teach the viewer anything or let him at least understand what the hell is going on.The ending is the worst part, though, coming immediately after the "reveal", solving nothing and providing only the mandatory opportunity for a sequel. I have no idea why I got this film to watch in the first place, but I strongly recommend to not do the same.