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Perhaps the whole Mike Tyson saga is attributable to a short-term memory deficit like Guy Pearce’s in Christopher Nolan’s Academy-snubbed thriller. Perhaps Iron Mike just has no idea what he’s doing at a given point and lives life in brief, incomprehensible bursts. Even a movie plot might not be able to make sense out of Tyson. But then again, maybe it could...
...accident that may or may not have been predicted by a mysterious Mothman. A certain spark, courtesy of director Mark Pellington, energizes these opening scenes: the car accident itself is well-staged and slightly creepy, but the rest of the film lacks the tension required of a successful thriller. The film also lacks the elements required of a successful paranormal mystery; consequently, the whole movie falls into a sort of dead zone...
Since this film is allegedly a supernatural thriller-cum-mystery, it would be unfair of me to go into any further plot details. I will say that, by the movie’s end I was left feeling empty. The final set piece is well-staged, but by that point I was so disinterested in the mystery surrounding the Mothman that I became involved in the film solely on a technical level. Though the idea of a Mothman that predicts and may cause disasters is somewhat interesting, the film fails to build any significant tension or interest with regard...
...Mothman is neither a thriller nor paranormal mystery, the question arises: what type of film is it? It is based on the kind of story that may be interesting to read a few blurbs about in the back of your local paper, but it certainly cannot support a feature film; any interest in the film’s so-called mysteries dissipate quickly. It is also the type of film that has no faith in its audience, reiterating the same points. Lines such as, “Whatever brought you here brought you here to die,” represent...
...sound like the plotline of a hackneyed Hollywood thriller, but hundreds of thousands of Americans may have already been victims of identity theft. Last year alone, the Federal Trade Commission logged more than 85,000 complaints from people whose identities had been pirated. That may only be the tip of the iceberg; some consumer advocates suggest as many as 750,000 identities are stolen each year...