This is a remake?
I did not watch the original. I understand there wasn't much changed, other than to bring the film into a contemporary setting (you now see a Motorola RAZR, an Apple notebook and digital photography).
That aside, this film was AWFUL.
The story is tremendously dated. The storytelling is extremely bad - the screenwriter and director make no effort to tighten the story and eliminate a huge swath of exposition mid-film. The characters are paper-thin. The two people who are supposed to be sympathetic, Liev Schreiber's Robert Thorn and Julia Stiles as his wife Catherine, come across as granite caricatures. They're cartoon characters. The boy who plays Damien, rookie child actor Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, does nothing for me. He failed to convey any sort of malice, menace or heat. Dakota Fanning was scarier in Uptown Girls.
Director John Moore falls back to the old reliable "Boo!" movie tricks to try to get a scare out of the audience. He fails. People were laughing during the film. If he was going for the over-the-top camp, it isn't obvious, and he sadly falls very, very short.
Bottom Line: I want my money and time back! Awful film. Avoid at all costs.
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