
In this movie, he's a middle-of-the-road salesman who gets stuck in some no place town while his car is being fixed. That's when he runs into the psychic played by J. K. Simmons who he has read his future on a whim. The news is not good. But, Simmons doesn't really tell him most of what he sees and sends him off with a full refund. Obviously, we're dealing with a real psychic. This becomes more clear when some of the prophecies come true. So, Guy finds him again to try and find out what the horrible news was that Simmons wasn't telling him about. Turns out, Guy will live. Well, he'll live until the first snow.
I don't know that I would ever have picked Simmons to be in the role of a psychic. I've seen him in lots of other things, and he usually a winds up being some form of police officer. I just don't know that he would have had the range to pull off a genuine psychic. Turns out, he does just fine. As does Guy, by the way.
There seem to be tons of supporting actors in this movie like Piper Perabo as the love interest, Rick Gonzalez as the down and out kid with a talent for sales, William Fichtner as the mostly unreliable best friend, and even Shea Whigham as the long-lost friend Guy once screwed over. Admittedly, most of the supporting talent would usually have been found in a made-for-TV movie or a straight out procedural series, but there is undeniable talent there, and this movie makes some pretty good use of it.
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Tell me the future! You Gonna die. |
Acting was very good
Direction was good
Mood was very good
Cinematography was okay
Story was good, but needed more
Bottom Line: Interesting enough to watch, but not interesting enough to watch again.
2.5/5