As I walked into the over-crowded theaters on opening night of "White Noise", I couldn't help but to be excited and overall pumped about seeing this flick. After all, the trailers we're pretty creepy and well done, the concept of the movie has always found its way to peak my interests. So as I sat into my grease-covered seat with my overly-fattening popcorn in hand, I was ready to see something that would scare my pants off..

As the first 20 or so minutes unfolded, the movie had my full attention and looked to be well on its way to being put into my very short list of great "PG-13" flicks. The scares we're coming off nicely and the tension was building evenly and nicely. Than the film started to drag. I patiently awaited for the film to kick into gear and start pounding me with creepy sound effects and images of the dead, fuzzing onto the tv screens. Well after some excessive boring dialogue, the film had the scene that I thought the movie was going to be like through-out. The scene I am refering to is that of when Michael Keaton, Mr. Jack Frost himself, visits our good friend for a good ole' fashioned "contacting of the dead". The scene for me was very well done and had me finally gripping my arm chair as the theater was pounding with terrifying sounds.

Shortly after, however, the film dwindled back to its previous state and was slow to pick up another tension-filled scene like that one. A few more scenes of static and bad receptions and we have ourselves another good scene where Keaton takes a lady friend (Deborah Unger) under his care. The scene was eerie and beautifully shot, major kudos to Geoffrey Sax for his work with those scenes.

If you haven't caught onto the pattern yet I will try and help you out. The problem with the film was it seemed to drag a bit much. Just when the tension begin building the scene was dropped and we are brought back down to a "safe" level of boredom. If only the movie could have kept a good quality pace through out, it might have been a real good flick. But as we all know all good things (or in this case, decent things) come to an ending.

Which leads me to the conclusion of the film. After a good build-up and an average attempt at a shocking "twist" the film ends abruptly and rudely. Leaving the theater, I looked to my female companion and exclaimed "What the hell happened at the end"? Yes, I know the outcome but why cut the "twist" so short? It could have been written different and have been so much better. But I guess that summarizes the entire movie in itself, "It Could Have Been Better!" With such an intriguing concept and captivating idea, the film could and should have been much better than it was, but overall, it was still a decent and sometimes creepy flick. The keyword being: Sometimes.

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