Salt Lake Tribune Review
Some thrillers, like The Sixth Sense or The Usual Suspects, spring surprise endings so carefully crafted they make you rethink the entire movie. This thriller, adapted from the Korean A Tale of Two Sisters, builds up to an ending that upends everything before it, but in a way that makes you realize that nothing before mattered. The story centers on Anna (
Emily Browning, grown up from Lemony Snicket), sprung from a mental ward 10 months after witnessing the explosion that killed her terminally ill mom. Anna comes home to see her sister Alex (
Arielle Kebbel), their dad (
David Strathairn) and Rachel (
Elizabeth Banks), Moms former nurse and now Dads girlfriend. Anna starts seeing ghosts around the old house and starts suspecting Rachel isnt what she appears to be. The movies British directing duo, The Guard Brothers, generate some solid shocks leading up to the finale but they cant pull off the triple-flip 180 dive without a messy splash.
-- Sean P. Means
Synopsis: A deadly battle of wills begins when Anna returns from a psychiatric facility and investigates the circumstances surrounding her mother's suspicious and untimely death. While Anna recuperates from the tragedy, her father becomes engaged to Rachel, her mother's former nurse, and moves her into their home. Anna's dismay quickly turns to horror when she is visited by her mother's ghost--crying out for revenge and pointing an accusing finger at Rachel. When her father refuses to heed their warnings, Anna and her sister, Alex, look into Rachel's questionable past. But Anna may be underestimating Rachel--perhaps fatally so.
