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(1 - 27) of 27 OFCS Rating: 7% Rotten Page   1   2/5 "Patchwork filmmaking designed by a corporate mentality devoted only to the defense of the lowest common denominator. The viewer is assumed to be stupid and easily duped."   CinemaBlend.com   Brian Holcomb D+ "For every one moment of genuinely built suspense, the Pang Brothers chase it with at least three follow-up scenes of either out-loud stupidity or baffling tedium."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf 4/10 "If The Messengers means to say something about all this familial and social dysfunction, that point is lost among hackneyed, decidedly unscary gyrations."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1.5/4 "...irredeemably uneventful and - ultimately - hopelessly derivative..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 2/4 "Yet another supernatural thriller about ghostly apparitions and corpsy children, The Messengers doesn't deliver."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 1/5 "Una más de niños que ven fantasmas, totalmente insignificante y olvidable y plagada de lugares comunes que ya no asustan ni sorprenden a nadie."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio C "Apart from being completely derivative and lacking even one original idea, it's not a bad movie. 'Unnecessary' is more the word I would use."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider F "May be worth watching simply for the sight of Dylan McDermott playing a downtrodden sunflower farmer who at one point -- so help me -- attempts to punch a crow in the face."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2/4 "However, in their (The Pangs) first serving of an American-made boofest served with all the fixings of a horror-induced bunt cake the taste still remains strikingly superficial"   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng D "Just dumb formula, and even the Pang brothers' technique can't raise it above the humdrum."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1.5/4 "The Messengers borrows so heavily from The Amityville Horror, The Birds, The Grudge, Poltergeist, and others that it has no room left for anything of its own."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 1/5 "the Pang brothers know how to set a mood and you can tell they can handle the camera from the way they set up the opening, so it's too bad they had to work without a script"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 2.5/4.0 "The worst part of this film is its advertising; don't let the studio's lack of faith in their own ghost story ruin a clever little thriller for you."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 3.5/5 "The first half is very well done, making it one of the best haunted house movies since The Grudge."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr D- "...just what is that Asian girl ghost doing in a Nebraska barn?"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/4 "The Pangs keep it moving and deliver the 'gotcha!' moments, but a steady diet of mechanical scares is thin stuff."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 1.5/4 "The scare tactics are tried and just as tired as they always are."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik D "The film's problems boil down to story. The Messengers has none, or nothing beyond the sketch of an idea: family with troubled past moves into spooky new home."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "Boo? Bah."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson C+ "Families who see this film should talk about the importance of trust between parents and children."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow C- "The only message worth relaying about The Messengers is: Avoid."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 3/5 "Um filme falho (especialmente com relação ao seu roteiro), mas que oferece belos exemplos do dom que os cineastas têm para criar planos e cenas perturbadores."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 1/5 "Just another craptacular exercise in weak PG-13 horror involving resourceful-but-stupid teens, idiotic adults and ghostly apparitions with short pants, pale skin and stringy hair."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 1.5/4 "The Pangs might know how to knee-jerk shock an audience ad nauseam, but the remainder of The Messengers suffers from shamelessly thudding banality."   Slant Magazine   Rob Humanick D "As I left the theater after seeing The Messenger I overheard a guy asking his date: "So, what was the message?" My thoughts exactly."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 1.5/5 "A stunningly inert, painfully derivative, shamelessly cheap and aggressively dull ghost story that delivers nothing you haven't seen before. About 43 times."   Cinematical   Scott Weinberg "There are flashes of good imagery in The Messengers, but [they] work better in the trailer, unencumbered by the dreary plot."   ESplatter   Steve Biodrowski  (1 - 27) of 27 OFCS Rating: 7% Rotten Page   1