n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Moving to the countryside for a fresh start, a ten helps her parents discover their new home is haunted by a series of ghosts and tries to help them before taking their newborn brother.Overall, this is certainly quite a decent if slight troubling effort. Perhaps the best element at play here is the fact that there's some genuinely creepy and chilling moments from the ghosts throughout this. There's several attack here which are downright creepy, including the main one which opens the film because it all happens in front of the kid, but moreso later efforts like the attack in the basement when she's supposedly babysitting the brother where the approaching ghost flips around furniture to the point of a haunted house movie as well as a secondary scene in the house when she's all along are lengthy, involved scenes that are incredibly chilling. They manage to work around the rather cliché notions of the child being the only one capable of noticing such activities until it's too late so this one can make a rather enjoyable finale when it finally throws it back to them with the wonderfully fun and enjoyable finale that makes for a great time. That said, there are still quite a few flaws here as this one tends to feature so many scenes that just don't mean anything. The first half to this features the rather lousy subplot about her troubled past coming into play which are just part of the problems that this section has as this doesn't really do anything really special with this storyline and really causes this one to seem quite bland and repetitive focusing on such insignificant places without anything worthwhile. Alongside this incessantly lame plot line is an overuse of the family adjusting to farm- life and being out in the wilderness, so what happens here is just insanely boring and not really doing much of anything. Setting up the plants, learning the equipment and it's functions and greeting the locals really isn't all that interesting as these just get dragged out endlessly to make the attacks all the more child-like by taking out all the violence and intensity that would normally be found here so this one contains a lot of boring, useless scenes that set-up quite a tame, direction-less style that that hurts more than helps it.Rated PG-13: Mild Violence, Language and children-in-danger.

Even if you haven't seen as many haunted house movies as I have, odds are that you'll frequently have a feeling of deja-vu while watching "The Messengers". Now, I will say that the movie doesn't LOOK bad; for what wasn't a megabudget, it looks reasonably slick and is technically competent. But all the polish can't hide the fact that we have seen all of this before. The opening pre-credits sequence is familiar stuff, the central characters are stock characters, the shock sequences have been done before... the screenplay has absolutely no surprises. Well, except maybe for how it unfolds. Unlike other haunted house movies, this movie often takes its sweet time. For example, more than a THIRD of the movie passes before anyone gets a clue that there are supernatural going-ons in this house. Eventually, you'll start to tell the movie to get on with it because of the deadly combination of familiarity and slow speed. The only audience I can think of for this movie is for young kids who haven't seen a haunted house movie before and are whining to see a horror movie. (The movie isn't particularly graphic, which while may make it okay for kids, will at the same time disappoint die hard adult horror fans used to more graphic stuff.)

Desperate for a new beginning to their lives, the Soloman family move to a deserted area in North Dakota. The farmhouse that they move into holds some deadly secrets. The family who used to live there mysteriously disappeared one day five years prior. Sixteen year old Jess and her three year old brother begin to see things around the house, ghastly things. Unfortunately for Jess, her parents won't believe her. There is an interesting twist to it all as we discover who or what killed the family years ago. Will Jess and her family survive supernatural threats as well as human?The Messengers gives us two genre's in one. We see Jess deal with the forces from beyond the grave (the ghosts on the Rollins family who died there) as well as the one responsible for murdering the family five years prior. So it feels a lot like Amityville Horror meets Halloween. Unfortunately, The Messengers doesn't provide many scares at all. There are some creepy moments with the "ghosts" creeping up around the family, but nothing overly frightening. The identity of who killed the family was not shocking, it's pretty easy to guess it early on. Acting was good enough from Kristen Stewart (pre-Twilight days) and Penelope Ann Miller.The plot of 'The Messengers' sounds good enough, but at the core of it all is just an average horror movie. It's not very scary, there isn't much (if any) gore, and it doesn't succeed in keeping my interest for long. It felt like a PG-13 movie, which is what it was. I'm going to have to watch the sequel they made, which apparently is a prequel to this one. Hopefully it will be better.5/10

The Messengers released in 2007 is another long line of horror films from the 21st Century, which was okay. It's okay in the fact it is watchable, but it certainly isn't a horror film that excites or a very memorable one at that.The story begins 6 years after the Rollin family left unexpectedly, and now the Soloman family who have been troubled of late move in to their abandoned farmhouse, leaving their lives in Chcago behind. This remote North Dakota farmhouse, is meant to be a fresh start for the family but their attempts at leading an idyllic country life are severely disrupted when Jess and her 3 year old brother start seeing things of a supernatural kind.To me The Messengers is nothing more than a generic horror film, something which is unoriginal and has definitely been done before. Saying this I do believe that the storyline had a lot more potential, had it done justice.The screenplay was simply boring. The dialogue was bland, and the scenes used did not flow into one another. The characters were also very undeveloped, and it was difficult to engage with any of the characters on an emotional level. Therefore it was also hard to sympathise for Jess who struggles to find someone to believe her and what she is going through.The Messengers comes under the genre of horror, which is surprising as the suspense element is severely lacking. The movie appears to rely on cheap scares such as loud noises or random jumps. The music was very unnecessary at points, as it just made the next 'scary' moment more predictable, instead of enhancing it. The house was the main focus surrounding the narrative and this is where the majority of the film took place, yet i don't feel they even did this justice. The same shot of the house seemed to be used throughout. Instead they should of came up with some more creative angles to use, which would of made it a lot easier to engage with not only the house, but also the happenings within the house.At times there was an eerie atmosphere, but this alone could not keep my undivided attention throughout. Overall, The Messengers is worth watching,(once maybe)but for me it is an example of lazy filmmaking.