Hide and seek

2/5 stars
robert deniro, dakota fanning

ok i give u where's the good ending hiding
starting up this film you would expect a typical new horror treatment, cheap scares, awkward dialouge and an ending that makes everything in the movie nonsensical. you'd be right except for one key element, dakota fanning. dont get me wrong her character's as poorly drawn as the res, but her emily comes across spooky because dakota takes her character and runs with it. dark stares, wide eyes, alternatly distant and happy voices, hell she'd be creepy even if she wasnt messing around with her homocidal friend "charley". dakota's exceptional talents carries the movie through long stretches of bad dialouge and weirdness(sample dialouge peice,"your lucky to have such a beautiful daughter." what)although the movie does conjure up a few good ideas(dakota dressing up in her mother's dress for dinner). unfortunatly the movie tears itself appart in the end, forcing robert deniro to play himself of as a killer something he's not equiped to do.(need a laugh? watch Deniro try to be chilling singing nursery rhymes with a knife in his hand. it dosent really matter,bad horror movies have a way of burrying themselves never to be seen again. for instance, can anyone tell me what the missing was about? i thought not.