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(1 - 26) of 26 OFCS Rating: 8% 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  (1 - 26) of 26 OFCS Rating: 8% Rotten Page   1