Here are some more reviews of The Gift Film Threat The modestly budgeted “The Gift” marks a homecoming of sorts for director Sam Raimi, who returns to his roots in the cinema of the supernatural after a largely lambasted spin on the big-bucks mainstream field with the Kevin Costner starrer “For Love of the Game”. But unlike his landmark “Evil Dead” splatter laffer series, Raimi is going for straight-faced chills this time around -- in a way, melding his flamboyant “Evil Dead” instincts with the more cerebral thriller elements he successfully tried on for size in “A Simple Plan,” his big studio breakthrough. To twist a tired cliché, the whole is a step short of the sum of its parts. Read the rest of the review --------------------------------------------- LA Times If "The Sixth Sense" left you with any doubts, Annie Wilson is here to tell you that seeing dead people is no fun. None at all. The protagonist of "The Gift," Annie is the resident seer of tiny Brixton, Ga., a person blessed (or is it cursed?) with second sight. "I see things, I sense things, they haven't happened yet," is how she puts it. Sometimes, though it hardly makes her day, she can see dead people, no extra charge. Read the rest of the review --------------------------------------------- USA Today Chameleon Cate Blanchett seems to have boundless range, while Keanu Reeves has acting limitations, yet both are seen to exceptional advantage in The Gift. A Gothic whodunit with supernatural undertones, this reasonably entertaining murder mystery serves up more than the standard one or two suspects who could have perpetrated the crime. Read the rest of the review --------------------------------------------- LA Weekly If this atmospheric Southern gothic had been made without the benefit of any of its high-profile actors, it could easily have become a modest find, a film to discover privately in a second-run theater or on the video-store shelf. But its story is too small to justify the high-octane combination of Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, Hilary Swank, Giovanni Ribisi, Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes. Read the rest of the review

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