The Mothman Prophecies
film — USA — 2002

6.5
Mystery, mystery. And thriller, of course. John Klein (I`d prefer Calvin, but there`s nothing I can do about it) is a successful media man - man, is there a lot of films about successful media men! He has a beautiful wife to whom he makes love in a closet of a house they just bought. But when they drive somewhere John`s life collapses as his wife sees a mothman and crashes the car dying afterwards in the hospital. His grief is too strong and in 2 years he hasn`t really recovered from that. But when he in a strange way finds himself in a place called Point Pleasant John starts really freaking out. And in that Point Pleasant weird things come to peoples eyes, ears and dreams. Mostly they are around a certain mothman - a weirdo looking like an ugly batman. The mothman is some sort of an ancient creature higher than man who can see almost everything, and he`s very good at predicting catastrophes. But what`s the problem - is to find out where the catastrophe is going to happen. John meets a good looking police officer named Connie (so he wouldn`t be alone) and a man going crazy named Gordon. What`s crazy about the film is that it says based on true events. Ok, I`m probably not open minded enough but I still believe that things like this are rarely based on something true (unless the base isn`t used at all). But the film ain`t even half bad, although it looks visually a bit B-movie`ish.
2005-01-30
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