Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a rare positive review, 3 stars out of a possible 4. Script error: No such module "Category handler". Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the film a poor review, but stated that Goldblum's performance "makes a tedious film intermittently tolerable." Film critic/historian Leonard Maltin characterized the movie as a "bomb" and added, "This goes nowhere for nearly two interminable hours." Script error: No such module "Category handler". The film received negative reviews from critics, with Rotten Tomatoes reporting that 12 out of the 15 reviews they tallied were negative for a score of 20% and a certification of "rotten". Jeremy Sisto as Vassago / Jeremy Nyebern.Jeff Goldblum as Hatch Harrison / Uriel.Hatch and Lindsay laugh and go back to sleep. However, it could also be interpreted as Jeremy's resuscitation after his attempted suicide, and the "remember what happened last time" incident that the nurse mentioned in the operating room. Hatch wakes up in his bed, realizing he was only dreaming. Jeremy wakes up, reaches for a scalpel on the medical table, and slits a nurse's throat. With his family safe, he exits the park with them.Ī post-credits scene shows Jeremy being pulled in to be revived. Hatch (revealing himself to Vassago as "Uriel," Vassago's antithesis) is the victor, killing Vassago and saving Regina. Hatch and Lindsay find them, and the souls of Hatch and Jeremy collide in a battle of good vs evil. Nyebern finds Jeremy and tries to talk him down, but Jeremy kills him. Jeremy kidnaps Regina and takes her to his hideaway beneath an abandoned amusement park where he has been building a "monument to hell". Nyebern and he explains to Hatch that Jeremy is psychotic and that after murdering his mother and sister and attempting suicide, was revived by his resuscitation team. Hatch discovers that Vassago's real name is Jeremy Nyebern, and is the son of Dr. Vassago sees this and then visits the psychic at her home and kills her. He visits a psychic ( Rae Dawn Chong) who confirms his beliefs and tells him that he is tied to Vassago by a "coincidence of fate", and that Vassago is also seeing through Hatch's eyes. He is told that he is experiencing mental problems by his family, his psychiatrist, and the police. Hatch scares Regina as he attempts to warn her about Vassago. The next day, Hatch accuses Regina of being at the night club, which she denies. Hatch, asleep at home, sees all this happening in his visions. Regina's friends interrupt and tell Vassago to leave them alone. He recognizes Regina from his vision and introduces himself as "Vassago". Regina sneaks out the house to meet some friends and they go to a dingy alternative night club, where the killer also happens to be. Hatch realizes that the murders are actually happening when the women he sees in his visions are announced as missing in news reports. The killer, who can also see through the eyes of Hatch, sees Regina. As the killer looks down at his young blonde victim dead in shrubs at the side of a road, Hatch sees the same vision in his vision the young blonde woman becomes his daughter Regina. Hatch begins to experience disturbing visions while he sleeps which involve him seemingly murdering young women, when in fact he is actually seeing through the eyes of the real killer. Hatch then enters Heaven and is merged into the light of a great angel. Nyebern about bringing back a patient who has been gone for so long, saying "We both remember what happened last time." While he is on the operating table, Hatch experiences visions of the same tunnels of light as the killer, but upon arriving for judgment is slowly floated into a surreal heavenly scene, where he sees his young daughter Samantha who died years before in a car accident. Jonas Nyebern ( Alfred Molina) who runs a specialist resuscitation team. Lindsay believes she watched her husband die.Īt the hospital, Hatch is revived by Dr. They collide with a truck and, after Regina manages to escape, the car plummets down a ravine into a fast-flowing river. Hatch Harrison ( Jeff Goldblum) is driving home from his family's lake-side cabin with his wife Lindsay ( Christine Lahti), and daughter Regina ( Alicia Silverstone). What follows next is a near-death experience where the clinically dead killer flies through tunnels of light, eventually arriving at a gaping, tentacle-like being of light who, after flashing through scenes of the recent brutal murders, darkens and casts the killer's soul down into Hell. He then commits suicide by throwing himself onto an athame in an attempt to ensure that he is eternally damned. After killing his mother and sister and ritualistically arranging their bodies as a sacrifice to Satan, a Devil worshipper ( Jeremy Sisto) recites the Lords Prayer backwards as it is written on the wall in a room filled with candles and Satanic imagery.
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