Movie Review: "The Presence"

Ugh! That's all I can some this movie up with. I really wanted this movie to be good. Not only because I love Mira Sorvino, but because the idea seemed intriguing to me. In the film, a nameless ghost follows a woman around her cabin, watching her. In the first ten minutes, I was sure this would be a good film, but I was proved wrong in the next ten minutes.

The movie begins slowly; concentrating on the beautiful scenery of a lone cabin on a large private island, the first half hour contains almost no speaking lines whatsoever. The woman staying in the cabin (Mira Sorvino) is a writer who is looking for solitude while she writes her newest book: a premise I can never get tired of. Only problem is that the beginning of the movie is just as boring as watching a writer write... Nothing happens, save a few supernatural occurrences caused by a ghost that the audience can see, but the characters cannot. Just when you think you can't take anymore of the snail's pace of the movie, the writer's boyfriend shows up to the cabin. This is when the movie takes a turn for the worse. The boyfriend is a whiny effeminate half-man who plays out more as the emotional woman of the relationship while (Sorvino) is strong and emotionless.

I have a feeling that the main goal in making this movie was to break the mold and switch roles for the normally helpless female and the normally strong and unfazed male, but it just didn't work.

I am sure this movie will do well on the Lifetime Channel, but it's a complete waste of time for your day off.