john river life a an architect and family man have take a turn for the bad when his wife have disappear and have be conclude dead after a freakish accident that involve change a tyre on her car . during the day she have be miss and he confront a man that be follow and he tell him that his be in contact with his dead wife from the other side through e. v. p electronic voice phenomenon . naturally he doesn not believe it but then hear get weird phone call from her phone and so he contact the man to find out more about e. v. p. soon enough john be hook onto it and but something supernatural doesn not like him interfere with the dead and as now other then contact his wife and the white noise be foretell event before they happen . since this dvd have be sit on my shelf for a while now and i think i well get around to watch it since it wasn not my copy . but then again i do not think the owner be in a hurry to get it back and a they haven not question me about it . oh well . so i decide to give it a play and a i be in an undemanding mood . after hear and read all the bad press on it and i wasn not expect anything remotely good and but i be keep entertain for 90 minute . well and more so the 60 minute and a the last half an hour be pretty much a blur of confusion . the film be nowhere as good a it could have be and but the time breeze by quick enough even though it a rather tepid supernatural thriller . i think it wasn not all a waste . the first hour i find some effective sequence rather interest and there a spooky awe generate with a slow progression of subtle stillness and tragedy that haunt you and but sadly that come to a crashing halt later on in the film . that when the predictably force jump scar come into their own and somehow it just doesn not fit in with the context . it become rather hectic and loud and very muddle with it mtv style edit and kinetic camera work that get to close into the action . i couldn not understand what be go on within choppy and abrupt climax . the whole explanation how everything fit into the big picture be pure hokey . it a very unsatisfying conclusion because it go for something big and but hit rock bottom . i think they do fine job up until that point with the lighting and showy camera work . other then the distinctively stark lighting and the score keep this flick atmospherically gloomy . all of it be very slickly do with it gloss up and fancy hardware and which make it come across a very sterile and empty . you can easily see that the film heart be in the technical component and not in expand the character and story . there just no connection and lasting sentiment within this flimsy material . after a while and it just try too hard to convince you that it fall into manipulative thrill and pop in many blood curdle stuff from beyond the grave . it just get rather repetitious watch someone watch a fuzzy tv screen after while . the e. v. p machine be the star on the show . well and it do have more impact than the limp performance . michael keaton be more than capable actor and but lately his disappear off the map and here he provide a modest performance a the dangerously obsess john river . he really deserve much good and though . everyone else be pretty brittle and forgettable . not because of the performance and but of the lack of depth in their character . this clunker wasn not bad to begin with and but it do go pear shape by fall away drastically . i wouldn not care to see it again and i wouldn not recommend to anyone and unless you get a interest for the subject matter and enjoy the recent crop of hollywood produce horror or thriller . it just a damn shame that this over produce flick couldn not put it together successfully and a it have promise in it idea and a more than decent cast on hand . i do not hate it and but what a disappointment .