Antichrist

Short of a cat jumping out off a drawer or a flock of birds flying out of the bushes at a tense moment; this poorly lit film just misses the mark. It is formulaic and trite. While it does have it's moments, the over-all impression I was left with was that everything was overstated and contrived..kind of a B type movie. The implausible and marginally unethical notion of Defoe's treating his wife's grief seems to inexorably (and conveniently) lead to her further wrath towards him. Her projection of her own guilt. expressed by the notion of "you were distant, you have been distant for over a year" appears to be her only justification for her bizarre behavior. In short, it just doesn't add up and these two great actors, while powerful in their performances, were under-utilized in this film.