"Your dad never broke a promise ever and the way he looked at me at the airport, it just looked like he knew something." Marika (Anderson) and Erol (Osment) kiss goodbye to their husband and father at the airport as he leaves for a conference in New Jersey for a few days. When he never returns they begin to worry, when no one can find him they fear the worst. 12 years later Osment is told a secret by his grandfather that may answer the question that has plagued the family for years. I had no idea what to expect from this when I started to watch it. I was interested almost right away but when the time travel thing came up I laughed a little. The more I watched the less absurd it sounded and that actually became the reason I was so sucked in. This is a movie that was actually able to stay one step ahead of the viewer the entire time. Just when you think you know what is going to happen it throws something at you that surprises you right up until the ending that is both shocking and perfect. This is the type of movie that after you watch it all you want to do is tell everyone you know to watch it. That is the beauty of lower budget films. There aren't many blockbuster movies you rave about and think wow my friends need to see this. Overall, this sucks you in and keeps you interested the entire time trying to predict what will come next. I give this a high B+.

Erol (Haley Joel Osment) and his grandfather (Victor Garber) work together using quantum physics to develop the ability to travel back in time, with the aim of repairing a family shattered by the disappearance 12 years earlier of Erol's father (Rufus Sewell).

This is a movie about relationships and the possible selfish impacts of time travel upon them. For example, if Erol travels back in time to prevent his father's disappearance, how can he guarantee his fiancée (Susanna Fournier) that they will still be together in the new version of the present day?

This is not an action movie. There are no special effects. It is essentially a mystery drama with time travel acting as the primary plot device.

I enjoyed the movie. Its definitely not perfect. A little slow in places.

I read several reviewers complain about the casting of Haley Joel Osment. I thought he was fine, though given his physical appearance it is hard to imagine him being the son of Rufus Sewell and Gillian Anderson and the grandson of Victor Garber. However, if you can suspend your disbelief and believe that a couple of men writing mathematical equations on a chalk board can make time travel possible, then anything is possible.

This came on TV the other day and I had nothing else to do. I didn't know what the movie was about, or who the actors were. I recognized Haley Joel Osment, and kind of did a double take. (More of the "Yikes. Has it been that long?" kind.) The story is a sci-fantasy story, but that's not the driving factor. There is little (almost none) in the way of special effects, and it doesn't need it. The plot centers around Erol, whose father left for a conference, and disappeared. But there is more to it than just a disappearance, and with his grandfather he figures it all out. I thought the acting could have been better in places, as it was very character driven. I won't put spoilers, but I didn't see the ending coming. Definitely worth getting the popcorn out for.

I liked this movie!

As a scientist, I like sci-fi movies that don't have gaping, roll-your-eyes holes in the science. As awful lot of "small" sci-fi movie are just plain stupid. This is a small movie, with nothing much in the way of special effects, but it doesn't have that problem. It rings true.

I like smart characters, too, and I like decent, well-meaning characters. Too many movies are weighed down by characters who just make you want to grab them and shake them and scream, "what's the matter with you, you idiot?" Not this one.

There are no nasty, stupid, or unlikable characters in this movie, and, of the major characters, only Grace is a bit shallow. I'll Follow You Down combines excellent character development with a fine (if somewhat unoriginal) sci-fi plot, a couple of romances, a few nice plot twists, and just the right amount of suspense. Good movie!

I admit that I am fascinated by the whole idea of time travel, so I watched "I Will Follow You Down" with great interest.

Marika (Gillian Anderson) and her son Erol drop their husband and father off at the airport when he travels to a conference in New Jersey. He never returns.

Twelve years later, Erol (now Haley Joel Osment) learns not only what happened to his father, but also learns that there may be a way to get him back.

This film starts slowly but still manages to draw you in. It deals with not only time travel, but the ramifications of a situation change because of time travel. The acting is very good, with Osment turning in a top performance. Gillian Anderson is full of surprises - from X-Files to work in England, including a highly-touted Streetcar Named Desire - she's obviously a dedicated performer, and it shows here.

I liked it - you care about the characters, and the story is good. Can't ask for much more.

Richie Mehta's sci-fi/drama "I'll Follow You Down" stars Gillian Anderson, Haley Joel Osment, Rufus Sewell, Victor Garber and Susanna Fournier in a slow, steady melodrama that revolves around a family's agony after the mysterious disappearance of the patriarchal character Gabe, a young physicist researching wormhole theory and time travel. Years later son Erol discovers that there may be a chance to chance history and restore the timeline if he can find his father out of finishing the research.

The story in "I'll Follow You Down" deals with a lot of science material tied together through emotional character study but you don't have to be a smarty to follow along. Maybe to argue the laws of physics and such one would need to bone up on wormhole theories, quantum physics & mechanics but most people will be drawn in by the character drama that unfolds in the film. The cast is top notch and give moving performances with no overdrawn grandiosity, just straight forward compassionate well developed characters that really make the story enjoyable. The sci-fi or scientific theory aspect of "I'll Follow You Down" is written more matter of fact and what I imagine would be elementary so a good foundation of "Star Trek" or other sci-fi knowledge really works well in that element of the material. I did phase out a bit over "time line corrections without complicating things" because that goes over my head, but I still found everything relatable without being too wordy.

There is very little special effects in the film, most things boil down to a standard musical score that pulls at emotional elements of the film, there is a small practical effect and lighting effect against props to sell the "time machine" aspect that works just fine and without overstating the moment. "I'll Follow You Down" is really a family drama that has some sci-fi attached to it but mostly it is a well directed, well acted and completely executed drama that is enjoyable to watch. I enjoyed the film, the cast was great. The story is sweat and Haley Joel Osment gives a a commendable performance.

"I'll Follow You Down" is a decent movie that contains pleasant actors. I didn't have much of a high expectation for this movie, nor did I know what it was about when I first saw it, but found myself involved with the story line as well as its characters. It's an adequate drama/mystery/time travel movie that has an overall good story development and message.

The movie centers a lot around family, and a mystery that has to do with a boy's missing father. Although the movie caught my attention from the beginning, I did find the middle part of the story a bit slow, but it got more interesting as the movie progresses - and it carried all the way through the rest of the movie. I recommend watching this if you're into a bit of time traveling, mystery, and drama.

"I'll Follow You Down" is that wonderful, inexpensive film you hope to see now and then which surprises the viewer with an explosion of talent from both sides of the camera. I am not going to go into the plot at all except to say that it involves the strong emotional relationships and motivations of people propelled into an off-center drama inspired by a science fiction story element.

The writer/director is Richie Mehta, who shows tremendous depth and common sense in his plotting and his characters' dialog, as well as in his non-gimmicky, straight-forward choice of how to use his camera to let the actors shine as they carry the story through to the last frame. I send kudos to Gillian Anderson, Rufus Sewell and Victor Garber for their "generosity towards up-and-coming film makers," in that they supplied wonderfully tuned supporting performances for what was likely very little income. Haley Joel Osment, who was a terrific child actor ("The Sixth Sense" and "A.I.") gives a rock-steady performance here as a multi-layered adult in his young twenties. If he gets the right future film choices, directed by people who correctly make use of his talent, he could become an A-List adult actor by his early thirties. In the meantime, try to catch this little gem of a movie whenever it is available as a theatrical, DVD and/or cable release.

The fact that the writer and director are one and the same is your first tipoff that this film is going to be .... unusual.

It is very hard to review. I am not complaining. Just pointing out that any "easy" critiques are likely to be wrong.

For a time travel film, it probably has the least amount of time travel ever. That is a record.

For a sci-fi film it probably has the least amount of sci-fi ever. Another strange record.

It does work well as a high concept drama, the kind of thing Woody Allen likes to de-construct in his darker moments. It gets a lot of traction of the notion that, if you were in a relationship that you liked, but that relationship resulted from mishaps in the time-stream which you MAY be able to fix, and that time-stream had a lot of other really bad stuff in it, should you risk the repair even though you may throw the baby out with the bathwater? Literally.

But as I said, there are flaws. The acting, with the exception of Anderson and Sewell, both of whom get limited screen time, never quite reaches the levels it was supposed to reach.

There is a particular scene where a damaged young man tracks his own father back in time to correct an "error" (said father having attempted time travel, and never returned) and, as an older adult, confronts his own father in a quiet diner with a litany of the lives he destroyed by chasing his passion for experimentation. At first the father has no idea who is confronting him or why. Then the penny drops -- it is his fully-grown son! Now if you are a film buff, then you know a scene that powerful should resonate off the scale. The idea is brilliant. It is right up there with the "blackout" scene in HERE COMES MR JORDAN, itself one of the most powerful scenes in film history, The scene works. But only to a fraction of its real potential.

Just like the rest of this film.

This low-budget film out of Canada combines a clever time-travel premise with an abundance of sentimentality. Haley Joel Osment is good as the young time-traveler/scientist, who journeys through time from 2012 to 1946, to meet with the father whom he lost in the same wormhole.

Gillian Anderson is also good as the bereaved wife of a husband whose secret life as a time-traveler she never knew. The plot is unfortunately mired in an unnecessary relationship of Osment's character Erol and his girlfriend, who seeks to persuade him not to take the plunge into the time warp in search of his lost father.

SPOILER ALERT FOLLOWS: A golden opportunity was missed when young Erol meets his father at the moment when he attempts to have a private conversation with Albert Einstein. The father knocks on Einstein's door in Princeton, N.J. in 1946, but Einstein is out for a walk. Incredibly, the filmmakers do not follow through with what could have been a great scene with the iconic scientist.

Some of the best scenes were those of young Osment with Victor Garber's character of Gramps, who is working with him on the time machine. But filled with melodramatic scenes, especially the shocking ending, "I'll Follow You Down" is overwhelmed with maudlin and mundane moments that detract from the excitement of what should have been the single-minded focus of the film: time travel.

I'll Follow you down is a pure SCI-FI drama played in slow build up style.

Gabe is a brilliant scientist who mysteriously disappears one day after following a trip, leaving his wife and kid stranded, years goes by then a sudden discovery will give light to how and why Gabe (the father) disappeared in the most bizarre way.

That's the idea pretty much. The movie moves very very slowly at the beginning, so slow that it will test your resolve, the problem with the whole idea is not due to the script nor the actors, since both are top notch, but it's mainly on the slow development at first and a very dull soundtrack.

Yes, I blame the partial slow first part due to music, it is incredible uninspired and it is constantly there. You know what happens when you play music all the time, it tends to diminish the effect on the scenes and that's exactly what happens here.

No need to cancel the movie just yet, since after the first half, the movie starts to gain speed, the music follows through with more grace and then the outcome... which is BRILLIANT to say the least.

Acting is really superb and Haley Joel Osment is really the star on this movie, without him this would probably be a failure, he really puts into his character giving a superb work.

It's nice also to see Gillian Anderson acting after so many years of watching X-Files, she was one of my favorite characters and she does a very good job too.

All in all, even with the slow first half, the movie has an incredible redeeming second part and a brilliant ending, pure SCI-FI at it's best and totally recommended.

Why only a 6 for a movie that should have at least an 8 rating? This is the time travel movie for those who doubt that time travel would be possible. Using a valid theory from quantum mechanics in physics the Everett interpretation of Many Worlds theory {Many- worlds implies that all possible alternate histories and futures are real, each representing an actual "world" (or "universe"). That theory stands in modern physics as possible and this movie makes it real. Not one of those time travel movies that keeps throwing you back and forth like it is easy - this one takes the subject seriously and only asks that you allow one main event to be altered - Could it happen that way? - Maybe, but you gotta love the way they do it - they make it seem real. Good acting, good drama and character development, well directed with a good even pace - If your tired of watching the same type of probably not time travel films give this one a shot and you too might say - Maybe, just maybe it could happen.

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." -Arthur C. Clarke

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke

One would guess one of the worst horrors a person could endure would be the sudden, and completely mysterious, loss of a loved one as if that person just suddenly fell of the face of the earth. This is one of the lesser roads traveled by science fiction movies. No, it's not entirely original, but certainly can be with certain creative story turns. That's the kind of humble brilliance shown in "I'll Follow You Down".

A Toronto based physics professor, a husband and father to a young son, takes a speaking engagement at Princeton University. The man gets there, he's met by his wife's father, also a professor, but simply disappears. Years pass and the young son is on the cusp of going to, possibly, MIT. The boy still doesn't know what became of his dad. His grandfather decides it is now time to tell his grandson a quite wild hypothesis which is that the boy's father was able to create negative energy which allowed him to travel in time. This sets up a good story because the boy's father was attempting to do the impossible: meet Einstein. Haley Joe Osment, seldom seen since childhood….at least by this viewer, comes back to the screen playing the young son of the missing man. He is actually quite good. His mother is played by the excellent Gillian Anderson, another seldom seen diamond herself. Finally, the grandfather is played by Victor Garber, also an excellent choice.

If you sense I liked this film you are correct. It is purposely slow because building the human element is served well as such. It's humble and it doesn't try to be anything it shouldn't. A creative sci-fi story brought to the screen simply as an excellent idea realized through solid acting. If you like Sci-Fi with a very solid human drama this is good indeed and highly recommended.

Gabriel (Rufus Sewell) disappears during a business trip. His wife Marika (Gillian Anderson) is left to raise their son Erol. Twelve years later, Erol (Haley Joel Osment) is a student of his grandfather Sal (Victor Garber). He tells him about his father possibly traveled back in time to 1946. Erol starts working on their own time machine while his girlfriend Grace informs him about her pregnancy. She fears his interference changing their relationship.

This does not have enough tension. It has no intensity. Haley Joel Osment is limited as the leading man. The lead in the first act is actually Gillian Anderson. This is basically a long extended sci-fi TV. In fact, I would cut it down to 46 minutes and make a pretty good hour long TV episode. This doesn't have the flash of even the smallest sci-fi indies. The premise is fine but there isn't enough to bulk it up.

I'm not a sci-fi fan, but I do like a puzzle - this didn't deliver.

What we get is an emotional family drama, with an excellent performance by Anderson that gives ballast to the story. Pity she leaves early on. After that I found it sentimental.

The vagary of fate in parallel universes is pointed up well, but the working out of the puzzle is a bit blah. And the second act is too long, leaving too little time in the end for the time travel - just 20 mins. That's when the audience should be having fun. The gunshot is unexpected, but not really satisfying - plus it's an easy out for the film maker in avoiding the cheesiness of meeting Einstein.

The lead actor is very confident, convincing in his early scenes, but didn't deliver any great line and didn't look the part.

The string music is conventional.

It's funny to use the word 'scripted' about a movie, but that's the term that came to mind.

"I'll Follow You Down" is a story about a loving husband and father that went missing in the year 2000 and that forever affected his wife and son. The movie picks up again in 2012 with the widow, Marika (Gillian Anderson), and the son, Erol (Haley Joel Osment), trying to continue on with life until Erol's grandfather, Sal (Victor Garber) tries to convince Erol that they can undo the loss of his father.

Undoing, fixing, correcting, changing the past: the prime motive for ALL time travel, so what's new? Nothing, except that the reasons and the drivers for traveling in the past were so concocted. Along with very overtly forced causes the movie had an overly simplistic message: family or work, you must choose.

I don't know what annoyed me more; the ham fisted manner of writing in a reason for time travel or the message that a person must choose work or their family. Both premises have been done multiple times and a lot better. The first premise--altering the past--is completely overdone. The second premise--choose work over family--is overdone as well but in this instance it was done in an elementary way. Somehow we are led to believe that anyone that spends a lot of time focusing on his work, however important it may be, will lose his family; and that is bad. In essence, all of those great inventors, scientists and innovators that help changed humanity had terrible family lives.

The movie started off with so much promise then it fizzled. Haley Joel Osment was not very convincing or compelling and the script didn't help him any. I was waiting to see how they could take this entire concept in a new direction and they just couldn't.

Gabe Whyte (Rufus Sewell) is about to leave for a convention in Princeton by plane. He still plays a game of chess with his son Erol (Haley Joel Osment) and says goodbye to his wife Marika (Gillian Anderson) in a loving (surprising) way at the airport. But Gabe doesn't return and leaves his family lonely and broken behind. A not ended game of chess is a lasting memory of him.

About 12 years later after the mysterious disappearance of Gabe, we see Erol back as a mature 21 year old brainiac who excels in science and math. A gifted student who has probably inherited the genes from his family that consists entirely of academics and scientists. A traumatic event brings his grandfather Sal (Victor Garber) as far as to talk about the disappearance of his father and tells Erol his theory. Over the years Erol is more and more convinced that his father died. According to Sal, his son discovered an ability to travel back in time through so-called "wormholes" and wanted to meet Einstein in a parallel universe.

So "I'll follow you down" is about time traveling. It's certainly not easy to come up with an original movie about that since there are already unmentionable films about this phenomenon (Back to the Future, Looper, 12 Monkeys, Terminator, About Time, Déja Vu, ....) which are imbued with action to keep the attention of the audience in a grip. "I'll follow you down" focuses on the scientific and emotional part of time traveling. Despite the lack of action or excitement it remains an intriguing SF questioning again the well known complications. What impact does a change in the past have on your present life? Will your personal situation still be identical in both family and professional way? It's certainly not a flashy youthful SF adventure movie like "Back to the Future"! It's still pretty clever of the director Richie Mehta to cast famous faces for this low-budget indie SF . An "X-Files"-like story deserves someone like Gillian Anderson, who indeed didn't loose any of her good looks over the years. Haley Joel Osment who everyone knows as the endearing little boy who could see dead people in "The Sixth Sense" and who went looking for his real personality in "AI". Besides the fact that he has gained some weight and has a goatee, you can still discern that angelic look in that bigger face. He can still look so sad with those puppy eyes. Especially Anderson delivers a brilliant performance as the depressed wife who lost her eternal love and never got over this loss so she got psychiatric assistance over the years and kept going with medication. Osment went on with his life and build a life together with his childhood friend. The disinterested gaze while his mother talked about his father and their first encounter, says enough.

Unfortunately a big part of the film focuses on the relationships and what the possible consequences would be if Erol plans to travel to the past. Would it have an influence on his personal life ? The making of the time machine is limited to showing a welding mask, complicated mathematical formulas of quantum physics on a board and a small portion of a kind of diving bell. The display of the ultimate time travel itself is fairly limited and was at the time in the episodes of "Dr. Who "much better portrayed. It also bothered me that after the 12-year period Erol changed a lot, while his mother and grandfather still had the same appearance. Quite unbelievable.

It's not an action packed movie but has nicely detailed character studies and a terrible dilemma Erol has to make a decision about. Ultimately, it's nothing more than a family drama in which the husband abandons his family, who are left behind with unanswered questions. In "I'll follow you down" he wasn't off to get cigarettes, after which he didn't return. He just got stuck somewhere in the past. This Canadian film should certainly not be considered as a failure, but still it missed something and there was still a dissatisfaction that bothered me. It was as if I've looked an episode about traveling by train and there wasn't even a fragment where you could see the train they were traveling with....

More reviews at http://opinion-as-a-moviefreak.blogspot.be/

Time travel pulls me in every time, so that was all I needed to watch this movie. For anyone else though there is a lot more here than just a time travel story. In fact this is a very strongly acted drama full of story that is touching enough in the now, that the time spent in time is really meaningless and short. Basically the movie starts out with an over saturated light that they use to represent the past which some will recognize from 12 Monkeys, and that is where any similarity to that movie ends. The Haley Joel Osment "Son" gets the job done, you will have to agree the grown up version can act as well. I did Enjoy the movie over all though I would have preferred more time travel, and less time figuring out how to, but that is my hang-up. The story is great, the acting is solid, and the direction was obviously quite tight. I recommend the movie as a nicely produced drama about some people who may eventually travel through time, full of very believable people and their lost lives. Jesse

I just finished watching the DVD "I'll follow you down" that I rented today.

Jillian Anderson looks amazing, and the way she portrayed her character made my heart cry. Hayley Joel Osmet is a strong leading actor: Masculine and vulnerable, played with a deft sensitivity that I would have expected, considering his earlier work.

I have been a fan of the genre for many, many years. To see such a well written, extremely well played piece sneak up on me; I'm thrilled.

I hope more movies of this type are made. Being an actor, of course I'm going to say that, but truly unique writing, telling a compelling story with such magnificent possibilities that will have us talking well into the future. Now THAT is story telling!

God Bless you all. You've certainly made my night!

David-Graham Parker Gold Coast, Queensland Australia

Quite an odd film, really. Rufus Sewell is the best actor in the cast and yet he's relegated to a walk-on part. An utterly predictable script - literally anyone who has ever read any sci-fi at all could work it out. Mildly diverting to see Haley Joel Osment grown up since The Sixth Sense. Overall, you won't regret watching it, but it won't light up your life either.

When you think of a science fiction movie, you always think of a big budget, over complicated flick with out of this world special effects. This is actually one of the reasons why the 'purists' seems to avoid most of them because they are over rated and feature largely one dimensional characters. 'I'll follow you down' however is completely different as it may be from the sci-fi genre, but this movie is slow, well made and very subtle. It revolves around a small family who suffer a loss when the head of the family mysteriously disappears. His wife suffers a breakdown and his young son who is also a genius grows up with many emotional issues. However due to a striking discovery by the son's grandfather, the son realises he can restore everything they lost. The film may follow a similar line to 'Looper', which was great but more complex, yet this understated family drama touches the heart. The cast do a terrific job and the idea in itself keeps the viewer interested enough to reflect on many moral questions in relation to the theory being explored. The film is not original but it has been approached from the human perspective, which in itself is revolutionary for sci-fi cinema.

Yes you read that right starring the little kid from The Sixth Sense all grown up and showing his master acting skills as a grown up. Always been a huge fan of his. He is such a gifted believable actor that shines in all his roles. The Sixth Sense will always be one of my favorite films and plus he phrased one of the iconic movie quotes of all time "I see dead people." Here he takes the trip as the character Erol into a science fiction setting. An interesting time travel story that I feel works for its unique and interesting approach on the concept of time travel.

This builds interesting characters and also a back story of those characters as you see the story unfold. A wonderful cast of actors. The beautiful amazing talented and all around goddess Gillian Anderson. I grew up watching her in The X-Files but she is so much more than an old television show. Her acting is extraordinary in such awesome performances as the violent revenge film Closure (2007) and the BBC made for TV series Bleak House and her top notch award worthy performance of Miss Havisham in the BBC's Great Expectations (2011) which I feel is the greatest representation of Miss Havisham ever done. She is golden in I'll Follow You Down as the character of Marika.

This also stars the wonderful master talent Rufus Sewell who I absolutely fell in love with in the very underrated dark sci-fi Dark City (1998). He also was brilliant as Dr. Jacob Hood in the awesome short lived TV series Eleventh Hour. He has such a smooth reality to his acting that creates awesome characters even if the movie sucks. He plays the character of Gabe in I'll Follow You Down and he owns the part and makes you believe.

You can finish my review here: http://www.abucketofcorn.com/2014/08/ill- follow-you-down-2013.html

I love time travel-themed movies (even somewhat weak ones), and I'm a fan of Gillian Anderson, but "I'll Follow You Down" is still a bad movie.

The good: Gillian Anderson is in it. "I'll Follow You Down" is well shot, with very nice color and lighting. The sound is fine.

The decent: The film score is fine, except that at times it sets an awkward, almost Disney-like, tone (and this film has quite a serious tone).

The bad: The editing is clunky during scene breaks -- there's one fade to black that lasts so, so, so, so, so, so long that it completely takes you out of the story. The screenplay needed a couple of big rewrites and better direction. The story focused on all the wrong elements and none of the right ones. The most compelling aspect of the movie was given all of about 5 minutes. The writing was weak to the point of, at times, making good actors look bad. There's a decent plot idea but not much of a plot. The plot points that do exist are so forced that they're quite literally laughable, the most notable example being a coffee shop scene about 4/5 into the story. In an attempt to draw out the dramatic tension, a character is being so ridiculously unaware of the truth that's right in front of him/her that you wonder if the character might be mentally delayed.

The bottom line: Fail.

Even though there are some fairly adult content and themes in the movie, my entire family enjoyed it together. Youngest 12 year old. The acting is good, the storyline grips you to the end and the pace is maintained well. These days it's difficult to find a movie that the family can enjoy together, so I am glad to find this one. My kids had an interesting debate after the movie, which means that it engaged them on both an emotional as well as intellectual level, but accessibly over the age groups. It also stimulated the possibilities that intellect and education could give them, which is worthwhile for children to see and think about.

There is a problem here. First, the son in his adult years is played by a weird looking actor. His face just isn't right for this role. For any role i would say as a matter of fact. Perhaps as a secondary role playing a teen in a Mac Donalds sitting in the next table, on camera for half a second or so. I mean the guy has a face that looks like an 8 year old boy's, a down syndrome person's, Super Mario and a 40 year old man's, all at the same time. Haven't seen anything like it. His voice comes out normal though. I mean the guy looked like he had a head made of haystack and his girlfriend in the movie looks like a wooden doll. Very creepy at some points. As for agent Scally, well i don't want to badmouth her, but she acted a little too natural for her part. I hope old age will be kind to her (as much as possible). He is a convincing actor though, the son, just not suitable for romantic roles, maybe for action roles. The movie goes kind of boring in the middle, with the romantic stuff, then takes an interesting twist in the last 3rd or so. Overall a watchable movie, with just hints of boredom at times. Not bad.