JohnHowardReid
I have just done something I've never done before, namely to read ALL the previous reviews - all 118 of them! Demi Moore has such a high reputation that I thought I might be doing her an injustice by giving "Half Light" a bad review. Maybe it was just me that was at fault. Maybe I'm just too stupid to follow the depth of the sizzling plot and to wonder who was who and what the heck was going on? To my relief and surprise, I find that the "noes" account for at least fifty or sixty of these previous reviews. And I fully agree with just about everything the "noes" have raised. I found the plot both illogical and hard to follow.Maybe I found it illogical because it was hard to follow, or hard to follow because it was so illogical? I tend to favor the second alternative and I'm both glad and relieved to find that many of the previous reviewers experienced just the same problems.A pity. Demi Moore is a fine actress and it's a shame to find her associated with this piece of illogical and disappointing plotting that actually gets less and less credible as it proceeds. Admittedly, the movie starts off well. But having laid a splendid foundation, the scriptwriters totally lose their way. (Maybe this is wrong. Maybe the fault is mine. So lets put it this way: They totally lost ME!
steel_indigo
I absolutely loved this movie! Demi Moore and all the actors gave stellar performances. I won't go into the background of the story here because many have already done that. One thing that impressed me about the movie was the soundtrack. The music throughout the movie was absolutely beautiful and set the mood for the story perfectly. I understand critics gave this movie bad reviews and I felt they didn't watch the movie that I did because this is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time and very unique. The scenery was breathtaking and I was caught up in the beauty of where they filmed. I love lighthouses so that was a plus since the story followed a love affair for the protagonist with a lighthouse keeper. It was a side issue somewhat but was a good addition to the story and a great plot twist. I had never heard of this movie but I definitely don't agree with the critics and would recommend this movie to anyone who wants a good movie of substance and not so much sensory thrills. It is brooding and yet very entertaining but not really a horror story. This movie is more of a scary thriller that builds to an unexpected climax.
ravenheart94
Everything about this movie is just so awkward and hollow and poorly done. Demi Moore plays a writer who starts having hallucinations and episodes following the death of her little son. She tries to cope by moving to a small, tight-knit town in Scotland. While looking for research/info. at a remote island, she meets an attractive young lighthouse keeper by the name of Angus McCullough (who we later find is *GASP* actually a long-dead guy who lived there, and the guy Moore's character meets is part of a conspiracy with her friend/husband,to murder her and get her 4 million pound writing fortune).I think the creepy psychic woman would have made a better main character. The character's behaviors are aren't very believable: For example, within the space of about 4 minutes Moore goes from being depressed and grieving to a warm sex scene. The soundtrack of the movie mainly consists of cliché Gaelic music, and a theme that sounds like a really obvious ripoff of The Exorcist. It's kind of annoying. The camera work is pretty cheap, too. It's very easy to spot the moments where they had to have multiple takes for a scene transition. Overall this movie wasn't exciting or suspenseful. The only morbid entertainment I really got was laughing at the insanity of Moore's character, the hammed-up murder scenes & how poor the whole film was.
Leofwine_draca
I hate films that can't stand by the courage of their own convictions, and HALF LIGHT is such a film. What begins as a fairly atmospheric ghost story, bolstered by some beautiful location photography, falls apart around two-thirds of the way in thanks to a massive and completely unbelievable twist. The twist is so appalling, so badly conceived, that it destroys the film's own internal logic, as well as opening up about half a dozen plot holes, the size of which you could drive an oil tanker through.Before the twist, the film does pretty good. It's saddled with non-actress Demi Moore in the leading role of course, which doesn't help, but the scenery alone is worth watching for. Some decent supporting actors, like the dependable James Cosmo and the edgy Hans Matheson, take our attention away from Moore's lack of ability. There are even a few poignant romantic scenes that I found touching.Then comes the twist, which turns the whole plot on its head, and it never recovers between then and the silly ending. It would have worked much better as it started out – a romantic, ghostly, atmospheric mystery, instead of blowing it with some Hollywood scribe's ill-conceived idea of cool. Fail.
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