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The greatest movie ever made..!

That was an excellent one.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Very good until just past the half-way mark when it takes a downward spiral where very little makes sense. The twist ending is more of a let-down than a surprise and renders the film just plain silly.

Wow that was so bad. It's so bad partly because it does a horrible job explaining the many holes it digs for itself. And by the end of the film it makes even less sense. The twist that it tried to convey only completely makes it more confusing and it's just poorly written. I'm angry for war watching this.

Having read some of the IMDb comments I approached the film expecting a bit of a let down. That did not happen. I think this is a wonderful film with some outstanding acting from several people ( not just Cillian, but Toby Jones, Sigourney Weaver, and Robert De Nero - even Joely Richardson has a big impact on the way the film feels; though a smaller part in the film - her level of sinister is great ).Some of the directing was a bit odd - several corridor scenes added to the 'weird/disturbing' theme but seemed disjointed and a little out of place.The ending was brilliant!A thoroughly enjoyable film. Glad I came across it and advise others to give it a watch.

Red Lights is a film about people who debunk fake psychics and the like. Dr Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) and Tom Buckley (Cillian Murphy) are academics in a poorly funded university department. Right at the beginning we see them take down a séance in a reputedly haunted house and then later discuss some of the tricks of the trade to their students.When a once famous blind mentalist and psychic Simon Silver (Robert De Niro) comes out from a three decade self imposed exile, Margaret and Tom are determined to expose him as a fraud.The film starts off promisingly enough, great acting from Weaver which makes you wonder why Murphy is first billed but then this becomes clear later on. Silver is sold to you as a Uri Geller type of person and I believe that a double for De Niro was used for his younger scenes that were very convincing.The narrative starts to fall apart as Tom becomes for whatever reason obsessed on taking down Silver and Margaret is then sidelined from the picture. We then head to a third act where Silver prepares for some scientific tests done by an academic, Professor Shackleton (Toby Jones) at the same university as Margaret and Tom. Well we know this laboratory conditions scrutiny is not going to go well as Margaret exposed Shackleton as incompetent earlier in the film. So it is left to Tom and his team to find out how Silver works his box of tricks.The film wants you to believe Silver is sinister rather than just a charlatan and has a twist lined up which makes little sense even if you work the film backwards.The film just has too much silliness which keeps sending it off the rails and Murphy cannot carry the film on its own when Weaver is sidelined.