ojimenez-78519

The story revolves around a mentally troubled character with a low level of intelligence. It is not clear whether his experience in Vietnam has much or little to do with it, but suffering from insomnia one might think so.

In any case, a couple of nightmare-like images could make this issue clear. The scenes of him trying to conquer a beautiful woman are very uncomfortable to watch (maybe that's the idea) but at least to me it seemed incongruous with many of the later actions of the protagonist.

I give them credit for the images in certain scenes, for the crudeness of the environment in which the plot develops, but at least to me they seemed like simple accessories to an extremely flat story, with very slow attempts at twists that lose effect on the viewer.

In short, it is a very overrated work. Excellent performance by De Niro.

It starts as drama, very interesting movie, with good acting, and semi original dialogues. You can not tell it is a terror movie in the first hour, asking yourself if the argument description was correct. Suddenly paranormal event occured now and then, inmersing you in a quite intriguing story. But, then it starts what we have been seeing for decades. Same exorcising stuff, with the same CGI of other cheap movies... At the end you thank this same old thing lasts less than half hour.

The most interesting thing about this story is what you can google next day about real Latoya Ammons family !!!