I saw this movie last night and was sort of surprised considering I had seen the trailer a few times and kept wondering what this movie was really about.
The long and short of it is this. Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) plays a journalist. Her niece and a friend of her’s run across a tape when viewed you receive a phone call stating you will die in seven days. The young girls try to make a joke of it but next thing you know, their gone. Rachel is determined to figure out how they died and to see what this tape is all about. So, she gets the help of one of her firneds, Noah (Martin Henderson) and he views the tape. Needless to say, they both get phone calls stating they are going to die in seven days. This sends both of them on a wild goose chase to figure what the tape is about, it’s meaning, and why these people have to die after viewing it.
This movie held my interest. The running time is 105 minutes. It isn’t scary, it tries to be psychological and make you think of things that aren’t there. I don’t get scared easily, and didn’t get scared by this either. I wasn’t on the edge of my seat either because I saw too many things coming so nothing surprised me. This seemed to be a mix of “Poltergiest” and “Sixth Sense”. This movie is worth a matinee price to see, but the PG-13 rating should help so word of mouth may get around and it may become a successful movie when it gets released on October 18th.