Good idea lost in the noise

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Ford Copola,God bless the man! has made an dream, a nightmare if I want to be specific. This movie is a surrealistic piece of art that can hide behind it as an excuse for violating the movie norms like plot, the form, and the concept of time in a motion picture. It is better to say he wants to experience and challenge himself as a classical director. So, yeah! this is not a movie you want to watch with bunch of kids or your girl friend as a entertaining or romantic memory, and this is cause of this poor rating in IMDB for this movie, but if you understand the art as a course in the college you sure will thanks the old Francis for making this one.Music is incredible, plot is great and more complex to catch up, and cinematography is a highlight to mention.

"Twixt" could be confused for any direct to TV movie, except for the fact that the great (or rather once great) Francis Ford Coppola directed and produced it and the gifted actor Val Kilmer starred in the title role. The film is basically a lame murder mystery in a small town (because all murders and supernatural phenomena happen in obscure, small towns, don't you know!), replete with tormented spirits coming back from the dead, a weary novelist searching for inspiration (Val Kilmer looks so uninspired and miserable playing this novelist that he makes us, the audience, feel miserable), and an old crusty sheriff who wants to be the title character in the novelist's new book.Given the film's formulaic and boring plot, what I would like to see is a documentary on the story conferences for Twixt. I cannot imagine Coppolla directing this movie in the 1970s, when he was operating at the peak of his abilities. Back then, he had too many good ideas for great movies to bother directing a film based on a dreary and uninspired premise. So what convinced this director that "Twixt" was a film-able concept and to write a large cheque to finance it. I do not even think Coppolla would even invest money into such a film, if a director approached him with a script on this very topic. Yet thirty-seven years after directing the brilliant Godfather Part II, Coppolla personally directs this unworthy garbage. I would also like to know what convinced Val Kilmer, who was great in "Thunderheart" and "The Doors," to star in a move that gave him zero opportunity to exploit his gifts as an actor. Was he so enthralled by the prospect of working with the great Coppolla that he didn't read through the script and wonder whether he really wanted his name associated with this boring project? Or maybe Kilmer just took the money and ran, like some other actors did when they trashed their careers on mindless films (Burt Reynolds and Whoopi Goldberg are two good examples) like this one. The only semi-bright light in this whole movie is the spirit of the tormented girl, played by Dakota Fanning. But one wonders if Fanning deserved a more complicated role that could really transform her into a big star. In closing, Twixt is not only a bad film, but also an unnecessary film with nothing flesh or interesting to say and certainly not a film worth seeing.

Hall Baltimore (Kilmer) is a third rate horror novelist who is on a book tour of his latest novel. The tour takes him to Swann Valley in which the local hardware store doubles for the town's bookstore. He is approached by the crazy Sheriff Bobby LaGrange (Dern) who has an idea for a book and wants Baltimore's help. Eventually Baltimore agrees to meet the Sheriff at the morgue where he is shown the body of a victim of a serial killer who died with s stake in her heart. Baltimore and LaGrange collaborate on the book as the history of the dead girl known as V. (Fanning) is revealed through dreams Baltimore has and dreams that have him talking to Edgar Allen Poe (Ben Chaplin) himself. This troubled movie tries for a Gothic tone sprinkled with modern elements and pulls neither off. The script is far more confusing and incredibly disjointed. Val Kilmer sleepwalks through the lead role and other fine character actors are wasted in this film that just never connects at any level with the audience. How can one of the great American Directors of all time, Francis Ford Coppola be responsible for this non-scary and weak excuse for a horror film? I don't know but he is. You'll forget it while you're watching it.

Francis Ford Copppla writes and directs sometimes without thinking about his audience or following. Some projects seeming more than likely for his own admiration. TWIXT is more than just weird and hard to grasp. A bit boring and no doubt about it...a mess. Val Kilmer plays Hall Baltimore a has-been writer that stops in a small town, where strange visions and nightmares change the direction of the murder mystery he is writing. In his nightmares he frequently encounters a young girl...a dead girl...named V(Elle Fanning). The girl reveals some disturbing and dark secrets about a mysterious murder the town is trying to cover up. What connection does V have with this misdeed? And why does Baltimore want to place vampires in the mystery he is writing? Will this be his comeback novel or just another bargain basement book? Kilmer does nothing redeeming. Fanning may as well be the star. Others in the cast: Joanne Whalley, David Paymer, Don Novello, Ryan Simpkins, Anthony Fusco and Ben Chaplin plays Poe.