I shouldn't get this pissed off about films anymore at my age, but I just can't help myself. There will be swearing.

Ok, so first of all I'll need to contact the Letterboxd guys as they have mistakenly placed this film under thrillers where it obviously needed to be placed in the 'intentionally boring, moronic without realising it piece of shit' genre. This film is not a thriller it is about as tense and exciting as an average episode of the Teletubbies. Come to think of it, the one where Tinky Winky lost his bag was infinitely more suspenseful than this pompous heap of manure.

Then there's the artist fomerly known as Robert DeNiro. He is atrocious here and is…

Red Lights is a film of missed opportunities and frustrating creative decisions. The film begins like a Brian De Palma thriller (admittedly more like De Palma on an off day) as we witness two scientists debunking a series of supposed paranormal events. Director, Rodrigo Cortés, creates an effective mood in the early going whilst the impressive cast do their best with on the nose dialogue and a rather overwrought tone. Yet for all this solid scene setting Cortés doesn’t seem to trust in his own abilities without throwing laughable and nonsensical theatrics at the screen for the final hour.

Much has been made of Red Lights’ ‘what were they thinking’ climax. It is a final act that even M Night…

There are two kinds of people out there with a special gift. The ones who really think they have some kind of power. And the other guys, who think we can't figure them out. They're both wrong.
-Margaret Matheson

Rodrigo Cortés' second feature film and first English film, Buried, was a solid thriller with incredibly inventive directing working around the imposed limitations of the film. While I wasn't completely blown away by it, my first thoughts after was that I couldn't wait to see what Cortés could accomplish without such limitations. That brings us to Red Lights.

While Cortés works from his own screenplay here, I have to say there is hardly anything inventive or unique about the directing here…

It saddens, and somewhat confuses, me to read all the negative reviews for this film, because I thought it was a brilliant psychological thriller. Even after reading the reviews I find it hard to fault.

A lot of the criticisms for Red Lights come from its final twist. Watching the film with my housemate, it wasn't something she enjoyed either, but it certainly wasn't a twist that either of us was expecting. I guess in a sense it was a bit of a let down after the build up of the rest of the film, but the fact that it held my surprise was enough for me to conclude it is a fitting end.

As for the film's suspense, the…