virginia-97 Review of Half Light

Half Light (2006)

This movie has been summarized dozens of times, so no going there.

[6/10 · 30 January 2009]

What I wanted to add in the previous comments and wonderings is: 1. How did Angus/ Patrick know, WHEN to disappear exactly? He completely relied on the assumption that Rachel would start asking the villagers about her date and then find out that it must have been a "ghost" that she was waiting for. Patrick had very little time to move out from the lighthouse. May I also add that it is quite impossible to set the house as if nobody had been using it for 7 years... She went thorough the rooms, opened the fridge... 2. Rachel did not wonder at all, HOW her stereotype friend Sharon got to the island 3. Sharon and the husband... Brian, was it? They had it all planned out- why did they arrange the finale so that they would all come together, thus have no alibis and be right on the spot, where the "suicide" was supposed to take place? An extra comment for point 1: if you ask me, I would have been either embarrassed for being stood up to start asking villagers in the party, where is my new boyfriend OR I would have thought that something inevitable came up, thus the new boy being late. A lighthouse emergency or smth. A woman her age already knows the little trick of giving some space... 4. And why go through all that trouble, I wonder? Would it not have been so much easier to stage a simple suicide- a mother taking her life for not standing the pain of "leaving the gate open and not being there for her son"? Brian would have got all the money for himself.

BUT despite my criticism above...

I saw the movie last night from TV;I had just finished unpacking my stuff after being away from home for about a week and the couch felt really comfortable. I am giving this movie 6/10 for being something easy to watch, not too scary, not too complicated. And Angus was cute in both appearance and person.