This movie just feel a mess. It's a typical pyschological msytery that's not as scary as all the advertisements tried to hype up. The main plot of the story was okay, but nothing that hasn't been done before.
What really turn me off about this movie was the flashbacks. At the beginning, there was really very little explaination as to what the flashbacks were all about. You don't really understand their relavences to the story until the very end and even then I would say the movie could have progress fine without it.
Because of these flashbacks, the movie seems to progress so slow. One minute you enjoy the story playing out, next thing you know, a flashback occurs without warning. These flashbacks are short at first, but they become longer and longer as the movie goes on with still no explaination as to their importance to the story. What really annoys me is that the same flashback sequence is played over and over again with short add-ons each time, it feels like a broken record.
The solo cello suspence music would set a good intense mood if you're really intending to scare the audience, but if there is nothing scary about the scene, then it becomes an annoyance when that music is blarrying at you in full surround sound. Time has changed Mr. Scorsese, people are not scare of solo cello anymore. The new scary music is complete sillent with nothing but a quiet heart beat and deep shallow breathing.
You can't blame me for being bored because I did heard a couple yawnings in that theater. I'll confess, 1-hr 30-min into the movie, I turned on my defense mechanism and took a 15-min nap.