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A Disappointing Continuation

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

***SPOILERS**** Confusing movie with a totally off the wall plot about what could better be called reincarnation. Not in one getting born after he or she passed away but being inserted or popped into another body via a brain transplant coupled with a blood transfusion! Despite the movie making very little sense it did in fact end up winning a number of awards, in probably putting the most people to sleep while watching it, for it's story and cinematography from the little known Cineygma Luxemburginx Film Festival. It also bombed out at the box office making back a scanty $50,000.00 of the more then $10,000.000.00 it cost to produced this half-baked turkey.There's the star of the film a notorious quack doctor using hypnotherapy on his unsuspecting patients Michael Strother played by Goran Visnjic, the most famous Croatian American since New York Yankeee home run king Roger Maris, who freaked out back in the USA when he tried to cure a patient of his fear of water. That by Strother putting him under hypnosis and encouraging him to jump into a lake in early April while it was still covered with ice. The poor guy ended up catching pneumonia and drowning by following Strother's insane and dangerous advice! Now in London under an assumed name, the same Michael Strother, he's involved in curing people of smoking and taking only cash not checks or IOU's, so no one can check on him, to pay his bills or living expenses. It all starts when Strother cures London police officer Janet Losey, Shirley Henderson, of her addiction to tobacco. While putting Janet under hypnosis he uncovers the reason why this young girl Heather, Sophie Stuckey, a recent kidnapped victim was so traumatized by her experience that she ended up losing her voice! With Losey, using the threat of exposing him as a quack, has Strother put Heather under hypnosis and, what do you know, ends up getting her voice back!From there on the movie quickly goes down hill with this cock & bull scenario about some people in London involved in a string of kidnapping and ritual murders of children to provide them with new lives, how it's done is never really explained, by somehow using the kidnapped and blood drained bodies of adults as their new bodies or identities. Strother who at first thought this is all ridicules soon become convinced it's really real as he delves deeper and deeper into the subject matter. This almost has him become the next person who's body, after being drain of all its blood, is to be taken over by the head of this kidnap and murder gang Catherine Leboug, Flowa Shaw, who looks like, in being almost 100 years old, she's on her death bed already!****SPOILERS**** We also find out later in the movie that the elderly Mrs. Leboug is actually the daughter of another member of the gang Francis Paladine, John Rogan, who's in fact young enough to be her great-great grandson! There's really nothing more to write about "Close your Eyes" since it gets more confusing as it goes on to it's final reward. That's where we see that Strother's new born son who together with his mom Clara, Miranda Otto, is at a carnival enjoying himself now being put under a spell by Heather to have the evil bloodline of the devil worshiping Paladine cult allowed to continue.

***SPOILER ALERT*** This group of cultists have been kidnapping young girls in and around London and, after giving them a blood transfusion, tattooing them. It turns out that little Heather, Sophie Stuckey, somehow escaped her captors but has since become unable to speak. Heather ended up spending all her time in a London Police safe-house staring aimlessly at the TV.It's when London lady cop Janet Losley, Shirley Henderson, was being treated to stop her from smoking that she, in her subconscious, revealed to her hypnotist Michael Strother, Gran Visnjic, about the comatose Heather which he, in explaining her smoking habits, innocently revealed to her.Knowing that Michael is on to something, in that there was no way he could have known about Heather, Janet literally blackmails him into helping her. Janet tries to get Michael to help her in not only getting into Heather's mind but in finding out who's behind her kidnapping and the murder of three girls who weren't as lucky as she was. As we soon find out Michael is in self imposed exile in London from the US after he "cured" one of his patients back in Seattle Washington. The man that Michael "cured" was so deathly afraid of water that he wasn't even willing to take a bath or shower in it! After being "cured" by Michael he then jumped into a lake that was, in the early spring thaw, too cold to take a dip in. This had the poor guy lose consciousness, from a severe case of hypothermia, and drown! With him now being forced to solve the so-called "Tattoo Murders" Michael now feels he can redeem himself not knowing that he's about to become the killer's latest victim.Extremely muddled story about this cult leader Francis Paladine,John Rogan, who's over 500 years old and uses the lifeblood of his victims, like Dracula,to keep himself alive forever. Michael puts his life on the line to get to the bottom of the "Tattoo Murders" only to end up on a slab with his blood being drained out by the mad Francis Paladine himself. It's only little Heather, after snapping out of her coma, that comes to Michael's rescue.***SPOILER ALERT*** With all the bad guys put on ice in the city morgue for good we, and Michael, get the shock of our lives in the final moments of the movie which we all thought was going to be a happy ending. Were shocked to see this strange and bizarre finger pointing routine we saw earlier in the film by the real cult leader who, judging from the persons age and medical condition, didn't seem to have much long to go in this world. As it turned out the cult leaders "Lifeforce" was transfered on to someone else in order to keep the evil alive and active in its next incarnation. That someone else turns out to be someone that's very near and dear to both Michael & Janet hearts!

I wasn't really expecting too much when my wife rented this film. It wasn't something that I had ever heard of before. I think that it was done very well and the acting was better than could be expected.I absolutely loved some of the scenery and cinematography in this film. There are several breathtaking sceneries that will take your breath away. Even if they were all done by CGI, it was still beautiful and a breath of fresh air.I'm not going to give any of the details away, but this movie relies more on the psychological aspect in giving it's chills and thrills. I loved the movie and I even loved the ending even more. It does a few surprise twist and turns and it won't be too obvious either.Rent this one today!

As you can probably see, this movie is not very well known and the odds of many people reading this are highly unlikely. I had never heard of it until I saw it at Blockbuster in the "pre-viewed" buying section. I was skeptical of buying because I had never heard of it and my movie range is quite large. I bought it anyways, and I have to say I wasn't thrilled with it but I enjoyed it.It's not the the type of movie you own and actually watch/want to watch like the regulars. However, if you're in the right mood, then you can thoroughly enjoy it. You can get into it. There are moments where you could scream at the characters in the movie for doing the typical, stupid, clichéd things that appear in most "suspense" movies. There are parts that will make you cringe possibly, if you're the squeamish type. Its all a matter of what type of person you are.This movie is not completely original in all aspects, but neither are the Screams and Halloweens, but people still enjoy them. This is how I see this movie. It's not a well done, fantastic movie---It's just entertaining. With a pretty good and fitting ending I must say.I gave this movie a 6.5/10