Load of rubbish!!

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Very good until just past the half-way mark when it takes a downward spiral where very little makes sense. The twist ending is more of a let-down than a surprise and renders the film just plain silly.

I think mostly every movie that people didn't understand it's rate is low . maybe your are right , movie should be easy but deep , listen people to your brain , let it go , think , believe , change in such movies .I really like it , it's full with brain storm , deep believing , strong emotions .And the special thing about this movie that it has no particular explanation, it's easily depend in you . totally like it , even i expect in the beginning of it another thing , but it was out of my expectation .Cillian murphy was amazing on this ..!

A movie about paranormal activity with some big names attached to it should be on paper pretty decent. Guess what: it isn't. Weaver (no clue why she agreed to do it) plays a mentor to Murphy's character. They form a team that debunks paranormal phenomenon. The story tries to be clever but it feels utterly aimless and there are plenty of scenes that don't seem to serve any function. The editing is also a bit chaotic and messy and the film does take a long time to go to a certain resolution/point that ultimately feels like a letdown. This one can also be added to the long list of films in which De Niro serves as a big name to be added to the poster but where you actually wish they choose someone else because here he goes completely of the rails and comes off as an amateur who has no clue how to portray a convincing character. So not completely awful but also not recommended!

This could have been a great film. With such an outstanding cast, and potentially intriguing plot, but unfortunately it is just stupid. I really wanted to like it, but I struggled to like anything about it. The script was banal and the topic poorly researched. Someone was just plain lazy putting the story together. Here are some examples that really irritated me.Dr Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) is a psychologist who researches and debunks paranormal phenomena, in particular exposing frauds. Yet inexplicably she chooses not to investigate Simon Silver (Robert De Niro). Why? Because she has been riddled with guilt morning til night for 30 years after he made her DOUBT for a second. What??? What is wrong with a skeptic having doubts? Skeptics should have doubts, or at least be open to the possibility of having doubts. Scientists are supposed to ask questions and objectively seek evidence. You can't be objective if you have already made up your mind. Surely her momentary doubt should motivate her to investigate more thoroughly? That brings me to the second problem. The head of the Scientific Paranormal Research Centre, Dr Shackleton, prior to running his experiments states publicly that he expects to find proof of Silver's powers. Not objective. And Silver himself gets to approve the team of investigators. Not objective. These are serious flaws in the design of a scientific experiment, which is supposed to be free from bias and where the researchers need to be independent of the subjects. Even the media, let alone scientists, would reject this "experiment" as just hype for lack of objectivity and independence.Third irritation. Basic research would show that psychics are not a grab-bag of special powers. They claim to specialise in particular areas. But Silver bends spoons and performs psychic surgery and projects thoughts onto photographs and reads minds and levitates and moves objects. That's like making an Olympic athlete run, jump, throw javelin, swim, ski and shoot. De Niro's character would've been so much more credible had it actually resembled the behaviour of real life "psychics". Obviously films have licence to stretch the truth, especially with this kind of subject matter, but it still needs to be believable or it just doesn't work.Finally, the twist at the end that apparently no-one sees coming. Could've worked, but handled very clumsily. Really just a poor copy of the ending of the Sixth Sense. By the time you get to the end you're expecting a twist of some kind, but at that point I didn't care enough to try to work out what it was.Sigourney Weaver is the only reason I'm giving it 3/10. De Niro just looks silly.