Fantastic!

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

If you like slow burn horror movies you may like this more than I did. When I saw it was a English movie I kind thought it would go like this. Hate to be the standard American but not much happens and the dialogue is kind of odd.

Well, my streak of good movies has shattered into pieces, and yet the theme is the one that pinches my fear button (see my review for "Aliens are coming"). Thus, it's about our dear ones being changed by twin evil ones. Here, they come from outside the mirrors (as in Carpenter's "prince of darkness"). It's a solid idea that can be very scary but it needs also some stuff to grow the seed.Unfortunately, there's not such development here. The movie is already ultra short (90 minutes) and inside, it's pretty much empty: the scenes are deadly slow, there aren't much dialogs and at the end, it's dull and boring. Worse, the colors are pale, bleak so it's really depressing!The only things to give pulse, it's the London location (with the tube), the twist about the car crash and Lena Headey as she has indeed a strong talent and presence to carry the movie over her only shoulders.

I've read several other user reviews of this film and there seems to be a common theme among the more positive entries: If you didn't like this film you must be a shallow, gore-loving Neanderthal. I find that interesting since I also read several of the negative reviews and found that few of those appeared to be suggesting the film contains insufficient gore.The most common complaint seems to echo my own. The film starts out as a promising psychological thriller but ends up a haphazard mess offering absolutely no explanations for any of the utter lunacy the film has presented, forcing the viewer to strain in order to fabricate even the most unlikely hypotheses! I don't mind a few unanswered questions so long as the major plot elements of a film arrive at a reasonable destination, but no such elements in this film appear to even have a destination in mind. I've seen just about every major film of this genre within the last 20 years and never before have I seen so many questions presented with so few explanations provided. Perhaps I am just too much of a simpleton to comprehend this uniquely "abstract and cerebral masterpiece".

A scary experience and a very unsettling film. I am quite surprised of the low rating of this movie here in the IMDb database (5.5 as of June 2012). The life of radiologist Gina McVey changes forever the night she organizes a surprise birthday party for her father. The changes are very subtle at first but there is this weird feeling that something is wrong. Gina begins to have suspicions of the behavior of some of the people close to her and makes the connection that the problem may be due to a concussion she suffered in a car accident.The reality however is more grim and we are taken by surprise from what Gina discovers in her search to clear things out. Mirrors are important in this film.The movie can be considered to belong to the horror genre although there is no gore and the violence is only suggested, not shown explicitly. Quite an experience and I would especially recommend it if you enjoyed the old British Hammer series. My rating: 8/10.