The Messengers

  • 2007


MOVIE IS compelling unwilling derivative uneventful stereotypical
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17 %
12 % Rotten
$ 0 Million
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Positive Reviews 7
Negative reviews 37
Average Rating 1.9/5
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2.5
The Asian horror movie moment feels long since passed, both here and abroad. Let our zombies walk or even sprint again! Give our creepy kids back thei .. EW
1.5
The Pangs painfully hew to a vision of an idealized Americana with the happy ending coming off as especially egregious. Variety
1.5
Many of the images feel over familiar, and the shocks a mite too forced. Time Out
1.9
The Pangs might know how to knee jerk shock an audience ad nauseam, but the remainder of The Messengers suffers from shamelessly thudding banality.
2.0
Opening over Super Bowl weekend without press screenings, a lacklust re title and little advance marketing, the PG 13 movie released by Sony genre div .. Screen Daily
2.0
Feels like a movie youve already seen before but dont quite recall clearly. Given its pedigree (Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert are among the producers) an a ..
3.0
With The Messengers, the Pang brothers devise scenes so scary that they stain the imagination and never scrub out. The New York Times
1.0
Just another craptacular exercise in weak PG 13 horror involving resourceful but stupid teens, idiotic adults and ghostly apparitions with short pants .. E Film Critic
1.3
The Messengers isnt a particularly frightening or gory horror movie, but directors Danny and Oxide Pang do have a special talent for torturing the rep .. San Francisco Chronicle
2.0
Patchwork filmmaking designed by a corporate mentality devoted only to the defense of the lowest common denominator. The viewer is assumed to be stupi .. Cinema Blend
1.5
Just dumb formula, and even the Pang brothers technique cant raise it above the humdrum. One Guys Opinion
1.9
The Messengers borrows so heavily from The Amityville Horror, The Birds, The Grudge, Poltergeist, and others that it has no room left for anything of .. ReelViews
2.5
The Pangs keep it moving and deliver the gotcha! moments, but a steady diet of mechanical scares is thin stuff. Tv Guide
3.1
Forgoes any more innovations, lazily borrowing from other peoples horror movies. Combust Ible Celluloid
1.9
The scare tactics are tried and just as tired as they always are. Mark Reviews Movies
1.5
As I left the theater after seeing The Messenger I overheard a guy asking his date: So, what was the message My thoughts exactly.
1.9
But Wheaton simply proves unwilling (or unable) to offer up anything even resembling a compelling storyline; by the time the film essentially morphs i .. Reel Film Reviews
1.9
...irredeemably uneventful and ultimately hopelessly derivative... Reel Film Reviews
2.5
Apart from being completely derivative and lacking even one original idea, its not a bad movie. Unnecessary is more the word I would use. Eric Ds Nider
2.0
...this movie exists in a universe where movies like this dont exist... News Review
3.0
Derivative but enjoyable horror flick with stylish direction, an intriguing mystery and strong performances from its cast. View London
4.5
Even though The Messengers turns out to be deeply and irrevocably flawed, its still the best movie Ghost House has released to date Film Journal International ..
1.9
The grown ups fare worse: They speak . . . very . . . slowly . . . as if to pad the running time out. This may in fact be the most ridiculous performa .. Boston
2.0
There might be less extravagant means of communicating than throwing an entire banister at someone or unceremoniously dragging them by their feet into .. Mountain X
1.3
If the ghosts were magnets and the Solomons were paperclips, the two parties couldnt be in a bigger rush to collide. Toronto Star
2.0
Gaping plot holes, a tacked on ending and a twist that belongs in a different movie. Bbc
2.5
Yet another supernatural thriller about ghostly apparitions and corpsy children, The Messengers doesnt deliver. The Movie Boy
2.0
The objective view gives the audience too much room to unravel its schematic plot, which is far less inspired than its creepy visuals. Calendar Live
1.5
It isnt until the end that things spin out of control. No one says Gimme the bat, Wendy or Heres Johnny! But they come close. Seattle Pi
2.5
But only almost. For all their success behind the camera the Pangs, whether working from their own material or handling the scripts of others, appear .. Movie Freak
3.3
The Pang Brothers sense of style often overcomes the lack of substance in this derivative scarefest.
3.5
The first half is very well done, making it one of the best haunted house movies since The Grudge. 7M Pictures
2.0
The plethora of horror movie cliches even those still residually effective weigh so heavily in The Messengers that whatever moments of terror that mig .. Boxoffice Magazine
2.5
The message of this creepy ghost thriller is that no matter how talented the Hong Kong filmmakers may be, theyll invariably be forced to make their fi .. E Online
2.0
the running motif of crows run amok has too much of Hitchcocks THE BIRDS about it to stand on its own, even in the Pangs capable hands. Then again, an .. Killer Movie Reviews
1.9
With a heaping helping of common sense, The Messengers could have been a very good movie. Waffle Movies
0.5
May be worth watching simply for the sight of Dylan McDermott playing a downtrodden sunflower farmer who at one point so help me attempts to punch a c .. Film Blather
2.0
The Messengers falls flat with its tedious plot, clichd storyline and unsurprising twist. Review Express
1.5
maybe theres something positive about a horror film that doesnt go for the jugular, one a younger kid could see with a parent or older sibling. If onl .. Filmcritic.com
2.5
The problem with The Messengers is that it simply doesnt offer up much of anything new. Movies Ign
1.5
A stunningly inert, painfully derivative, shamelessly cheap and aggressively dull ghost story that delivers nothing you havent seen before. About 43 t .. Cinematical
2.5
For better and for worse, Messengers 2: The Scarecrow is dare I say it corny. Dread Central
2.0
The Messengers is another exercise in overly used Hollywood ghost effects... The PG 13 rating is very stereotypical in this case. Its just pre package .. Dread Central
1.0
Now theres a stylish exploitation flick worth getting psyched about. Ear Of Newt
1.5
The films problems boil down to story. The Messengers has none, or nothing beyond the sketch of an idea: family with troubled past moves into spooky n .. Reel Times: Reflections on ..
1.5
And what crop is Dylan growing, you ask Sunflowers. Yes, sunflowers. Agricultures baby step from farming dandelions. Why not just harvest weeds Movie Juice
0.5
Relies way too much on cheap, nerve jangling sound effects and musical stings to juice up the films tepid, PG 13 proceedings. Deep Focus
1.5
There are flashes of good imagery in The Messengers, but work better in the trailer, unencumbered by the dreary plot.
1.8
For every one moment of genuinely built suspense, the Pang Brothers chase it with at least three follow up scenes of either out loud stupidity or baff .. English Oh My News
0.8
The well amplified scares are so perfunctory as to be laughable. Whats up with the crows bitches Kristen Stewart, clearly not up on her Hitchcock or a .. Time Out Ny
1.0
the Pang brothers know how to set a mood and you can tell they can handle the camera from the way they set up the opening, so its too bad they had to .. Movies for the Masses
3.2
The Messengers does deliver on jump scares, compelling characters, top notch acting from the entire cast, nice atmosphere and excellent cinematography .. Scifi



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