It has been a long time since I have seen a movie with such a misleading trailer. First off, 2 of the bigger moments featured in the trailer never happen in the movie and secondly, the trailer leaves out a huge point of the movie, yet I can't seem to figure out why that is. It is not really a twist, but it seems as if the company/director wanted it hidden. I will try not to give that particular moment away, but it shall be difficult.
Nick Powell, played by a kid I have never heard of until this movie, is a high school senior. He is a nice enough kid, although he doesn't have a good relationship with his mother and he sells essays to other students. He is a great writer and has dreams of going to London to attend a writing seminar after high school. Annie Newton, played by an actress I had never heard of, is the exact opposite of Nick. She is a bad girl, a rebel, shaking down other students for money and not afraid to pull out a knife. We know she is bad because she wears all black and hides a gorgeous mane of hair under a black hoodie. ooooh, scary!! Nick and Annie cross paths early in the film and then again throughout the film. See, Nick dies, well sort of. He is still alive, but his spirit has left his body and is wandering throughout town trying to figure out what is going on. He sees how bad Annie's life is, but can't bring himself to have compassion for her, until he realizes somehow, she can hear him. At first, it is unclear how often she is hearing him, and then we realize she hears everything he says and it appears as if she can feel him. They are racing to find his body, in hopes he can be saved.
Apparently asking questions while watching this is a bad idea, because some questions never get answered. Does Annie's guilt overtake her and that is why she can hear Nick? Is he basically representing her conscience? Why, half way through the movie does Annie decide to partake in a rave and show us her hair? Why does Nick keep shouting at everyone? The acting here is fine by the mostly young cast and the story remains fairly interesting, even if there are pointless moments meant to produce faux thrills. There is a moment towards the end that is just an awful moment because you realize what happens would never happen, except to draw out the "suspense" a bit more. The adults do barely anything here and we are given a detective with ties to Annie, but they don't seem to mean anything because this is a surface movie. I enjoyed it while it was going on, but when it ended I didn't care much. When the best thing about a movie is how wickedly the camera moves in the opening sequence, it probably doesn't bode well for the overall affect of that film.
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