![]() ![]() There are a couple of really well done "scare you!" moments and many moments where you catch yourself holding your breath. wasn't SCARY! As a movie, it is highly entertaining, fun, scary and has you literally on the edge of your seat several times during its viewing. Someone should have told him the red sun. Unfortunately, Brett Leonard displays neither in this attempt. This leaves his earlier works easily adapted to film by any director with a capable imagination and even just a little talent. The only thing that remains the same is Hatch (Goldblum) and the circumstances which surround his amazing new "gift." Koontz's earlier works, as was the work upon which this movie was based, had little detail, although his characters are very well developed and his story lines/plots move along with little or no distraction at all. ![]() The "adaptation" isn't an adaptation, it's a complete rewriting of the story, dialog, setting and characters. Koontz, in my opinion, should also have sued. His acting is intensely deep and highly professional in this Brett Leonard (director of the notoriously horrible adaptation of Stephen King's "Lawnmower Man," so bad it was, King SUED and WON, to have his name removed from the title and marketing!) adaptation of Dean Koontz's literary effort. ![]() Jeff Goldblum pulls the veritable rabbit out of the proverbial hat in this one. Title (Brazil): "O Esconderijo" ("The Hiding Place")ĭean Koontz chiller, starring Jeff Goldblum. Although not being an original storyline, this attractive movie entertains. "Hideaway" has a good cinematography and special affects, the cast is great and the sequence of the accident of Hatch and Lindsay is excellent. "Hideaway" is another rip-off of "Eye of Laura Mars", I believe the first movie to explore the idea of a person connected to a serial killer through his eyes. When he foresees that Vassago is trying to capture his daughter, Hatch tries to find the criminal first, in spite of Lindsay, Regina and the detective in charge of the investigation believe that he needs psychiatric help. Hatch has some weird premonitions and becomes able to see through the eyes of the psychopath serial killer Vassago (Jeremy Sisto), a young man that killed his mother and his sister and committed suicide and was also brought back to life and now is killing young women and teenagers. Jonas Nyebern (Alfred Molina) successfully brings him back to life. He dies for more than two hours, but the specialist Dr. Other than that, Hideaway deserves to be hidden away.While traveling on the road with his wife Lindsay (Christine Lahti) and his daughter Regina (Alicia Silverstone), Hatch Harrison (Jeff Goldblum) has a car accident, hitting a truck and falling with his wife in a river. Then again, if you’re higher than a hippie in a helicopter, you may enjoy the crummy CGI. Unless you’re a die-hard Jeff Goldblum fan, there’s really no reason to see this. Sisto fight leading up to the final CGI battle is fairly weak and unexciting. Not only are they totally devoid of suspense, they take away screen time better suited to Goldblum going nutzo. His handling of these scenes is akin to a second rate Lifetime Movie or something. The thing is the scenes of him stalking and killing unsuspecting women are more or less botched by Leonard. Jeremy Sisto isn’t necessarily bad as the serial killer. ![]() Wait till you see the effects for these scenes. Goldblum’s histrionics aside, Hideaway doesn’t have much to offer, except for a couple of horribly done CGI battles between good and evil. And in addition to his wild-eyed ramblings, Goldblum has some good domestic scenes with Christine Lahti as the duo make for a believable husband and wife couple. We also get lots of scenes of a sweaty shirtless Goldblum wigging out in his sleep as well. There are a lot of scenes in this movie where Goldblum will have a vision and freak out, much to the chagrin of his family. Nobody does the paranoid, slightly touched, weirdo routine like Jeff Goldblum and if it wasn’t for his performance, Hideaway would be thoroughly bottom of the barrel. Once the killer realizes this, he targets Goldblum’s daughter (Alicia Silverstone) as his next victim. Every time he murders someone, Goldblum experiences the killer’s sensations. Doctor Alfred Molina zaps him back to life and pretty soon he discovers he has a psychic link to the serial killer. Later, Jeff Goldblum gets into a car accident and nearly dies. If can’t already tell, his career was going down a slippery slope.Ī serial killer (Jeremy Sisto from May) butchers his family then commits suicide. In 1995, he followed that up with Hideaway, a cheesy movie with bad CGI effects based on a Dean Koontz story. In 1992, Brett Leonard directed The Lawnmower Man, a cheesy movie with bad CGI effects based on a Stephen King story. ![]()
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