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annie wilson ( cate blanchett ) , a widow who struggles to raise her children in a small town in georgia is asked for help by local authorities in solving the case of a missing woman .
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annie is something of a psychic , she has involuntary bouts with the supernatural where she can see the past and the future and physically feel the actions happenning to her she envisions .
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her " gift " leads to the arrest of a nasty wife beater who may or may not have killed the pretty rich girl found in the swamp on his property .
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in an ultra conservative backwoods town will her testimony based on her psychic visions hold up in court ?
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do they even have the right man ?
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what's good about it :
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aside from keanu reeves giving one of the best performances of his career as the loathable redneck donnie barksdale , there is little else going for the film .
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what's not so good about it :
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lame , unoriginal screenplay .
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predictable ending .
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suspense scenes that are just plain boring .
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ridicously trite characterization makes the entire south out to be ingnorant , hateful goobers .
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relentless in its emotional sensationaliztion .
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overall critique :
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" the gift " is one of those movies that makes you wonder where you've seen this story before .
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it's a collection of every cliche and stereotype of the south ever made , and coming from a yankee like me who dislikes the south that's really saying something .
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for an established , talented director sam raimi is unable to provide any kind of originality to this film .
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it's predictable from the first scene , the screenplay is written like a rip-off of a photocopied bootlegged play .
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you know that as nasty as the murder suspect is he didn't actually do it .
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it's no surprise either who the real villain turns out to be and what their motive was .
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sigh , how trite .
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for a supernatural thriller this is neither scary nor intense because it's so cliche .
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" the gift " is basically a glorified b-movie .
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