White Noise (2005)
Starring: Michael Keaton, Deborah Kara Unger, Ian McNeice, Chandra West , et al.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Opening Date: January 7, 2005
White Noise?
No, not your noisy neighbours. Or an excellent (and unrelated) novel by
Don De Lillo which everyone should read, but rather the first movie to
star funny man Michael Keaton (Batman,
Beetlejuice) in quite a while.
I’d love to see Keaton in a funny movie, but this isn’t it. Instead it
appears to be 2005’s The Forgotten, an
X-Files rip-off that you’d feel better about
seeing on video than forking out the price of a movie ticket for. (Read
the plot synopsis further on down. Now where have we seen all this
before?)
OK, if there is some kind of clever M. Night Shyamalan-style twist it
might redeem the movie, but it all seems rather unlikely.
Yawn, where when you think about it, the X-Files has a lot to answer for . .
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MICHAEL KEATON plays a successful architect Jonathan
Rivers, whose peaceful existence is shattered by the unexplained
disappearance and death of his wife, Anna (CHANDRA WEST). Jonathan is
eventually contacted by a man (IAN MCNIECE), who claims to be receiving
messages from Anna through EVP, the process through which the dead
communicate with the living through household recording devices. These
extraordinary recordings, captured by people all over the world, seem to
confirm what many of us have dared to believe: it is possible for the dead
to communicate with us. At first sceptical, Jonathan then becomes
convinced of the messages’ validity, and is soon obsessed with trying to
contact her on his own. His further explorations into EVP and the
accompanying supernatural messages unwittingly open a door to another
world, allowing something uninvited into his life.
