Ann Mazur

This was a poorly paced, MORE poorly scripted movie with many odd moments, mostly because of the lack of a cohesive narrative and many "Chekhov's gun" moments that went absolutely nowhere. Why even put that weird shed in the woods? This movie could not even make up its mind as to whether the deer were good or bad ("the animals are trying to tell us something" versus Julia Roberts and Ruth screaming at the deer). This movie reached its peak in the scene which interspersed suspenseful clips from GH on the beach, Ethan Hawke in his car trying to outrun pamphlets coming from the sky, and the kids in the woods with the shed, and then went rapidly downhill and unraveled from there (and even tried to repeat the same interspersing of scenes later to much poorer effect). Many philosophical moments that the audience was to take as profound came across as flat, forced, and out-of-place because of the rest of the story not supporting itself. Watch anything else!!