Hide and Seek (Trouble jeu)

A tawdry cocktail of red herrings, cheap psychology, and shameless horror-movie tropes.

The movie goes down the tubes in the last third.

[An] idiotic, yawn-a-minute thriller.

Follows no semblance of internal logic.

I think it's just so well made, so well photographed.

Through its first two-thirds, at least, Hide and Seek does a good enough job of piquing our curiosity that the movie's ultimate dumbness is more than a minor insult.

Older teens may enjoy; too creepy for kids.

The movie starts out as one thing and suddenly jumps the tracks into something else. Then there's the question of credibility that this abrupt switch invites.

This movie has more red herrings than an Agatha Christie novel combined with the aquarium downtown. The real question is, 'How did this stinker attract such a big name cast?'

Shameless in its appropriation of incidents and atmosphere from earlier horror movies, with De Niro giving one of the emptier performances of his latter-day career.

The best way to tell when things are getting bleak is to check Dakota Fanning's face. When she starts to look like a poached egg, that's when you better hide.

The 'surprise' ending in Hide and Seek is not only unreasonable, but also downright unoriginal.