for the life of me i can not understand what people see in this film . i saw it at the toronto film festival . the movie be plague with bad act and bad dialogue and miscasting and and a cliché plot . i have read comment that the movie be introspective . but i fail to see an introspective moment on screen . spoilers the sex scene between viggo and maria on the stair be realistic and but the sixty nine sex scene and supposedly to show how into each other they be and do not work . while it a great position between partner and it look ridiculous when try to show intimacy . especially when they act like they be snack on each other . maria bello cast a a small town attorney . miscast maybe . her look speak to big city lawyer but not small town . viggo at least maria try to act . viggo look like someone be feed him his line from behind the camera . i really love his wooden acting when he try to tell maria that he think he bury joey a long time ago . it look like he be go to laugh at one point . plus it hard to take a middle age man name joey seriously . direction viggo limp scene a he try to race home to save his family . crazy . viggo snap a flunkie neck on his way out of his criminal brother office . hi larious . or even the choice to have all the mob guy wear black like a vampire convention . i could maybe forgive those scene ( or not ) but i couldn not stand the obvious metaphor with the weak bully who prey on viggo son . the bully be really a wimp at heart and viggo son be just wait for his burst of motivation to take on the bully and his flunkie in the spirit of his father heroism . haven not see that before . but the bad be and no not ed harris ham it up a mr. fogarty and but viggo daughter . she have to be one of the most grating child actor ever cast . she be horrible . in summary and from the moment viggo family crowd around the little girl because she have a nightmare and all be there to console her ( in cronenberg hackneyed attempt to show tom stall initially perfect existence ) to the end when tom or joey or michael myers come home to find his family tensely sit at the dinner table and little girl sarah pull out a plate to show daddy tom or joey or jason x be still part of the family and the movie be a complete package of one terribly direct cliché after another .