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It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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.

Long time before Whisper, there were the Omen series, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist and other movies with a mysterious child having supernatural powers, with strong references to occultism and religion. Here, the child (9-years-old boy David, splendidly performed by Blake Woodruff), has been "victimized" more as he is being kidnapped. The events coming then are catchy to follow, but they all end in a similar manner and are mixed with flashbacks and wolves. The cast is also nothing special, with the exception of Woodruff and Joel Edgerton as Vince Delayo.Well, the movie is okay to watch, and about 1h 20 minutes only, but as for similar plots, I still prefer movies where a child punishes evil (people) using his/her own wit and skills - as in Home Alone series, for example.

When it comes to the characterisation of children, Hollywood doesn't really have much of a gray area: a kid can be either unbearably cute and sweet or, alternately, a supernatural Hitler. That's pretty much it. When you go for the second option (which I encourage), your movie pretty much stands or falls with the child's acting performance. I'm glad to say "Whisper" really hits a bulls-eye in that field, because Blake Woodruff is an intensely frightening kid who nails every scene he's in. He's almost as scary as Harvey Stephens from "The Omen", the movie "Whisper" so transparently tries to ape. In fact Woodruff is almost too good, because it's incredibly frustrating how nobody ever picks up on his evilness. You know that scene from every slasher ever where you're supposed to yell "don't go in there!" when a character's being stupid? "Whisper" gives you that feeling for pretty much its entire running time, and nobody listens here either. Doesn't change the fact that it's quite entertaining though, because the scares are very well-done (despite the overuse of dream sequences) and the finale gives you everything you could want from this kind of B-movie. Just don't expect anything really creative.

My wife and I watched this movie because we're huge Lost fans and Josh Holloway was in it (can't get enough of Sawyer!). We didn't expect much as we'd never heard much about it before but right from the start we were hooked and it didn't let up-suspenseful right until the end. We were also surprised at how scary it was and loved the ending! Great characters, great dialogue and really good writing in general. Really slick production quality too with beautiful scenery. Special effects were great as well-never cheesy. Other people hit the nail on the head comparing it to The Omen and I agree it had a very "X-Files" feel to it. I highly recommend this film.