Not that Bob Zemeckis was in the pantheon of Great Directors, but everything he did up until this movie was original and well above average. This is just run-of-the-mill stuff you've already seen hundreds of times, and reaks of a Hollywood sell-out by Mr. Z. Overlong and predictable, nothing special. I'm being a little on the generous side in giving this one a 5 out of 10. How useful the IMDb has been as a guide: quite consistently, I haven't come to expect much from anything rated much above a 6.5, so I figure that I should have expected that this would be an ill-spent 2 hours. Two thumbs up for the IMDb, and lesson gratefully learned. (BTW, I thought that Zemeckis' follow-up, -Cast Away-, was a welcome return of the Zemeckis we'd all come to know and like.)
Review of What Lies Beneath
