| Critics Reviews |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
| 24 Frames Per Second |
"...there's a lot to get out of 'What Lies Beneath.'" more... |
| NZone |
(3 out of 5 stars) "...a great centerpiece to show Hollywood great movies can be achieved without all those special effects." more... |
| Cinema Sense |
(Gold) " Jump-in-your-seat scares emerge from a tightly wound psychological and supernatural mystery." more... |
| culturevulture.net |
"Zemeckis won a Best Director Oscar for 'Forrest Gump,' but he hasn’t bothered to form even one memorable sequence in 'What Lies Beneath.' For long stretches there’s simply nothing going on..." more... |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City) |
(2 stars) "...one of the most shamelessly derivative films in recent memory..." more... |
| E! Online |
(grade: B+) "...keeps things taut for edge-of-your-seat excitement..." more... |
| Flick Filosopher |
"... rote, passionless, just-plain-boring flick ..." more... |
| Harvey's Movie Reviews |
"Atmospheric but distended ghost story..." more... |
| James Berardinelli |
(1.5 out of 4 stars) "...the kind of cinematic disaster that could easily ruin the prospects of someone with less clout." more... |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
(7.5 out of 10) "A well-crafted thriller, this movie delivers on various fronts including the creepy suspense, the cheap scares via the excellent camerawork, the superior score, the even better use of silence ..." more... |
| MovieJuice! |
"This movie is one part slasher flick, one part ghost story, and one part bathroom remodeling commercial." more... |
| Nitrate Online |
"...a turgid, never-say-die, and -- despite its pretentious homage to Hitchcock and King -- occasionally scary vehicle." more... |
| NY Rock: Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Get Out of the Bathtub |
"'What Lies Beneath' the surface of the summer's latest superstar-spangled attraction is, well, not much really." more... |
| Orlando Weekly Movies |
(3 out of 5 stars) "Too much that adds up to too little." more... |
| PopMatters: "Take Me Away!" |
"The title asks not only what lies beneath the water, but also what lies beneath Claire's perfect exterior? Or better, what lies beneath our assumption that she is perfect." more... |
| Roger Ebert |
(2 stars) "...plops into a morass of absurdity." more... |
| Spliced Online: Tedium Trumps Terror |
"...self-indulgent..." more... |
| Variety |
"Intermittently scary but not fully absorbing..." more... |
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