White Noise
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What a great way to start off the 2005 movie season! Previews for White Noise promised thrills, scares and a solid and reliable cast. Unfortunately the previews are a bit misleading and I can’t help but draw comparisons to one of 2004’s most disappointing films, The Forgotten. It seems tantalizing trailers can be pieced together regardless of a films quality, and this film is a prime example.
The storyline follows architect Jonathan Rivers (Michael Keaton) who is living a happy suburban life with his wife Anna (Chandra West) and son Mike (Nicholas Elia). His world is turned upside down when Anna dies under somewhat odd circumstances. While attempting to get his life back on track, Jonathan is contacted by Raymond Price (Ian McNeice), an expert on the phenomenon known as EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena). Raymond claims that Anna is trying to contact Jonathan through a series of messages which can only be detected through Raymond’s EVP equipment. Jonathan is skeptical at first but he quickly begins to see the truth and realizes that Anna’s messages may be important not just to him, but to all of those around him.
The film has a handful of hair raising scenes and Keaton is solid in his role as the grief-stricken lead. The real problems with this film are two-fold. First, the film starts painfully slow, absolutely nothing interesting happens for the first 40 minutes of the film. The second problem is a much bigger one though. Due to time constraints or just poor scripting, the actual phenomenon of EVP is never really explained. It is simply flashed in front of the viewer and we are supposed to understand it with virtually no explanation. Keaton’s character seems to become an EVP expert virtually overnight and I guess director Geoffrey Sax expected all of us viewers to do the same.
The EVP concept is truly intriguing and that makes this film all the more disappointing. With a running time of only about 100 minutes, the script wasted too much time early on and viewers are simply rushed through the most important parts of the film. Unless you are a die-hard Michael Keaton fan skip this film and try the heavily underrated super-natural thriller Stir of Echoes (1999).
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