Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

An action-packed slog

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

There's nothing scary on Sounds Like and that's really the problem with season two. There's only one shot that will be loved by the geeks but overall this is more about situations. But I must say that the performance of Chris Bauer as the office drone with hearing problems was excellent. First he has very sensitive ears and notice every sound that could be noticed very hard and it annoys him. But not only that, his personal life is also one with problems having lost a child and his wife eager to get pregnant again. Slowly his sensitive ears lead him into madness and things go wrong towards the end. It wasn't really my thing, I had no problem with Brad Anderson's , the director, flick The Machinist (2004) a bit in the same way as this story where a man slowly is going berserk but here it took a bit too long for a short before things go awry. Again, it should be okay for a full feature but for Masters Of Horrors it doesn't fit in comparing with season one that set the tone...Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 3/5 story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

This has to be the longest 57 minutes ever. The story was right out of the Twilight Zone about a man who could here everything. He could hear the sounds that a fly made, the sounds of earthworms crawling underground, and these sounds slowly drive him to madness.There is ZERO suspense in this episode and it really is a waste of time.The surprise ending is dumb and a morality tale about grief and loss could have been more interesting in a thousand ways.This has to rank as one of the bottom 2 episodes.I have not given up on this series yet but I am afraid that the six episodes aired already this year might be enough to kill off any interest. Showtime would have been better of not airing this episode.

I have faith in MOH again. At first i was a a little disappointed because i thought John Carpenter's Pro-Life was on this week, but i was pleasantly surprised by this gem of an episode. The concept of this episode doesn't really seem scary, but the remarkable use of music and sound effect really brings this episode to life. Also the feeling of hopelessness and despair sets up a a dark little world for protagonist Larry, who has developed and acute sense of hearing after the untimely death of his son. The amazing thing is that nothing happens for a good part of the episode, but the build up and tone used used makes up for it. The ending is pretty satisfying and this is a good episode that uses sound brilliantly. Very nice.

Sound. Thats the key subject of this episode. A lot of different sound techniques are used throughout to enhance and show the aural assault the protagonist is subjected to on a daily basis. He has ultra-sensitive hearing with such little things like knitting or kids skipping enhanced to a deafening level. Something is eating away at him and much like in The Machinist it starts to effect his everyday life.Thankfully Anderson does not ape his previous classic (too soon to call it a classic?) and the story wanders a different path. Wandering is the only fault with the episode though, spending too much time showing different sounds driving Chris Bauer's character mad rather than progressing the story. Still a similar dark atmosphere is created throughout and carries through to the last shot of the movie. Worth watching.