The Orphanage

Picturehouse Entertainment | Release Date: December 28, 2007

7.6	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 214 Ratings

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ManuelA.Dec 27, 2007

Full of cliche and borrows too much from previous movies, not up to the hype

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JasonP.Jan 21, 2008

What?! I can't believe I had to sit through 90 minutes of the most boring and pointless sequence of events just to get an "OK" ending. ***SPOILER*** A movie where a mother kills her self over an orphan child and doesn't care one What?! I can't believe I had to sit through 90 minutes of the most boring and pointless sequence of events just to get an "OK" ending. ***SPOILER*** A movie where a mother kills her self over an orphan child and doesn't care one bit about leaving her husband alone and miserable... is just dumb! Oh, and explain to me why Tomas is an evil ghost who smashes the mothers fingers with the door, just to come out all loving and good at the end. What about that old woman who killed the orphans... she shows up out of nowhere in the tool shed (or what ever that room in the front yard is called) to do what? To check if the dead orphans she buried are still dead? And that woman showing up out of nowhere again in front of their car months later just to get hit by a bus... Stupid! I don't understand how anyone can like this film... ***End Spoiler*** I'm soo sick of foreign films getting good reviews from critics, just because it's in another language. If this was made in the U.S. in English, everyone would be trashing this film.… Expand

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JimMar 18, 2008

Good photography and directing. Boring story, not believable, some good acting from the mother, not frightening at all. It tries to be intelligent but fails miserably.

1 of 4 users found this helpful

SteveApr 29, 2008

I can't decide which one disappointed me more: The movie or Metacritic. I think US movie critics' opinion won't count for me anymore.

1 of 4 users found this helpful