What Lies Beneath (2000)

Sorry, this movie sucks

A Disappointing Continuation

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Blistering performances.

Nothing truly special here. Pretty solid acting, though Harrison Ford's continual MUMBLING in hushed monotones became awfully tiring and annoying. I found I had to keep the subtitles on in order to catch everything he said. He was certainly playing the role very "low key". Clearly, this is a competent and expenisive (at US$20 million) Hollywood pic. The scenery is superb, sets wonderful, fine cinematography with remarkable attention to detail. Maybe too much screming ! This film should be at least 20 minutes shorter, imho. Many segments seemed to be purposely drawn-out, to the point pf irritation. "What Lies Beneath" qualifies easily as a good horror flick, with two top movie stars and an excellent supporting cast. The problem/s? The reason/s I couldn't give more than 6 stars? Primarily, the picture is too damn long, but also I felt there was a real lost opportunity to add more ingredients, a special "spark", in order to distinguish this effort from so many similar movies ~ to make it rise well above Exactly what these improvements might be, I cannot say, and obviously the producers, writers and director were unable to come up with ideas. Well worth seeing, especially if yo'ure a fan of the leads and of relatively "subtle", slow-moving horror pictures. 6/10.

A glossy tense thriller that introduces some horror elements that were popular at the time with films like The Others and The Ring. Harrison Ford puts in a decent performance and looks the part, but he isn't quite menacing enough, maybe because he's too likeable. Pfeiffer a class act as always, although I get echoes of Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct in this one. Well worth a watch.

I still remember seeing the trailer for this film on TV back on the 2000, and i really was so impressed by the trailer, but anyway i couldn't watched it the summer of 2001 in cinema (that used to bring old movies). The movie Star two of the biggest movie stars from the nineties ( Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford) and directed by (Robert Zemeckis) you know the same person who directed (Back To The Future Trilogy), so you can see why i was so exited to see this film when it came out back then.This film is one of the best ( if not the best) scary movies ever that brought to the big screen, sorry don't get me wrong there are a lot more frightening films than this one, but that's not enough to make a successful one. what Lies Beneath have a great scary moments mixed with great acting, directing and story line that make it difficult for any other film to achieve.Michele Pfeiffer gave us a perfect example for a victim character, she starts the movie in a way and end it in another according to the story line and the events of the film, her performance here was so powerful after her great performance in The Deep End Of The Ocean 1999 ( now the biggest question is why she didn't had an Oscar nomination for both her roles!!!).As for Harrison Ford he brought a second evil character of his whole acting career which was somehow one of his best performance, he really convinced me with his villain character .

Robert Zemeckis's What Lies Beneath, although a bit melodramatic at times, is a nicely freaky bit of domestic terror, in the vein of Hitchcock. It's a pseudo supernatural thriller that I saw at a very young age, so I have a spooky nostalgia for it, as it scared me in that way that only kids can get, staying with you even as you get older and making whatever film it was that made you feel that way resonate unconditionally for you. Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer play an affluent married couple who are beset by strange paranormal phenomena that may or may not be linked to one of their pasts. Ford is a busy medical professional, away for days at a time working, Pfeiffer the stay at home wife, plagued by creepy voices, noises and bumps in the night when alone in their large mansion, in some nice eerie sequences. Clues lead her to the odd job couple living next door (James Remar and Miranda Otto) but soon it becomes clear the answers won't be as easy or obvious as that, and the cold, clinical nastiness of a thriller that knows what it's doing and won't compromise sets in, freezing us in our seats for a nice jarring third act of unexpected resolution that lets the actors go to some places they haven't ventured in their careers. Ford is calm, cool and barely connected, Pfeiffer is detached and perplexed, and there's fun work from Wendy Crewson, Joe Morton and a ghostly Amber Valetta as well. The dog making a nasty discovery in the backyard pond is a nice moment for me, one I had dreams about for a while after seeing this at probably an all too young age. A nice little package of a thriller; cold, classy, frightening.