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Red Lights (2012)

Thriller | 114 minutes
2,77 665 votes

Genre: Thriller / Mystery

Duration: 114 minuten

Alternative title: Luces Rojas

Country: Spain / United States

Directed by: Rodrigo Cortés

Stars: Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver and Robert De Niro

IMDb score: 6,1 (70.367)

Releasedate: 2 March 2012

Red Lights plot

"How much do you want to believe?"

Psychologist Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) and her assistant investigate paranormal activity. This leads to the investigation of world-famous clairvoyant Simon Silver (Robert De Niro). They suspect him of being a scammer, but the results are far from what they expected.

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sinterklaas

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The serious and psychological take on today's paranormal movies.

Cortes managed to surprise me quite a bit with the nerve-racking Buried. In Red Lights he unfortunately omits a lot of those elements and this is just a fairly standard thriller. Not bad by the way, because the concept is still quite interesting and the actors are also perfectly in place.

Sigourney Weaver is back in good shape here as a psychologist Matherson who mainly deals with clairvoyants, in other words, checking that there is no faking. Her assistant may be Cilian Murphy, the naive Tom Buckley, who also plays a very fresh role here. They have to deal with the blind clairvoyant Simon Silver, who manages Robert deNiro perfectly. He is described as the most reliable soothsayer, yet Buckley keeps a close eye on him, with unexplained things happening all the time.

Do not expect a grand thriller spectacle from this film, but a Paranormal thriller on the slow burn, which occasionally also causes confusion. Other than that, I thought this film was still good to do and especially the strong actors keep things going. Cortés could have done a lot more with the atmosphere and the editing to make this just as oppressive a film as Buried, but hey, you can't have everything.

Great little thriller.

3.5*

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centurion81

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Pretty decent movie. Only Weaver stole the show with her acting, which means that the bond you should get with the lead actor (Murphy, who I also saw in 28 Days Later this year, where he didn't convince me either) doesn't really come about. Overall, I think the characters lacked depth. This also applied to De Niro, who therefore does not fully shine as an antagonist. This, in combination with the sunglasses, makes his role very generic.


Still 3*, because the film managed to keep me from realizing until the last scenes that this was a typical "The Sixth Sense" plot

Anyone who finds the unmasking of the Uri Gellers of this world an interesting fact, I can heartily recommend the documentary "An Honest Liar" (on NL Netflix).

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Roger Thornhill

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An intriguing premise with a dream cast, but at the end the film kind of collapses when De Niro's curses from the stage really only seem a little laughable; the punch line (actually more of a twist) comes a bit out of the blue and also arrives too late, and besides, nothing is actually done with it, so that afterwards I am mostly left with the feeling of an anti-climax. And would Simon Silver really have never, anywhere in his long career come through with his fake blindness? A full star less because the salary for the stars was apparently so high that the filmmakers could no longer even afford decent lighting : rarely experienced such a dark film, in some scenes I couldn't even see what I was supposed to be watching, and that while Buried was such an excellently executed film from this director.

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