Case 39 (2009)

Great Film overall

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Admirable film.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

"Case 39" tells the story of a family worker who has to handle a tough case when a young girl nearly gets murdered by her parents. She decides to grant the child a home and takes good care of her, but more and more she gets the feeling that her newly acclaimed daughter could be a lot less innocent than she had previously though.This film is one of a typical genre of titles that include innocent-looking yet demonic small children. As most of them, you can easily adopt the feelings of the threatened lead character. On the other hand the film is very predictable and with some experience you can tell what will happen not more than ten minutes into the plot. It is obvious that the title had some budget and therefor the special effects look decent. The acting, too, seems appropriate and makes this one of the better movies of the genre, without saying that it is an excellent film.All in all this is a genre film for people who are looking for exactly this kind of entertainment. Personally, I'm not really into demonic horror because it is never all too plausible, but as easy entertainment for one evening, this is clearly good enough.

case39 is about Emily Jenkins who is a social worker who takes in lily whose parents tried to kill her because she is a demon I thought the film is amazing Renee plays the character really well the best scene in the film is where they are the lift and lily say Why Emily if I could rate the film I would give it 10/10 the characters in the film are: Emily Jenkins lily Sullivan Doug detective Barron mike Diego Edward Sullivan Margaret Sullivan Nancy Wayne Javier Javier's wife I loved watching case39 I thought it was a really good film

Well another movie that started out so promisingly then went rapidly down hill to a very un climatic ending.This started off WELL. I was really excited about watching the story unfold.Seemingly evil, sick deranged parents and poor child you could actually feel really bad for... Of course the twist comes very early. The sweet girl turns out to be... yes, evil. Oh yeah, and she has a crazy mother, no real history, was a sort of possessed half demon from birth.. actually scared and tormented the hell out of her parents and made them suffer till they went mad and tried to kill her then died.. (Orphan, The Ring, anyone?) Yes another story that's been done. And yes, again The lead "mother" role is scared and needs help from her male friend- who of course dies and leaves her desperate when the girl turns on her.This is a girl who knows what you are thinking and up to all the time.. ? This seems a fundamental flaw all the way through..how did this kid who knows and suspects all and doesn't sleep.. allow herself to be drugged and almost died in an oven, and then be locked inside an exploding house.. YET suddenly not only get out appear totally fine over the road? and then be killed by being being driven off a cliff- while scared because she can't sense what is happening or read your mind if you pretend you don't fear her.The whole ending was just so slap dash it actually annoyed me. There are so many ways it could have been as dramatic as the build up towards it. But no, rushed and really average. Oh let's go for a nice car ride after I have told you you are a psycho kid and I hate you.. look I'm going to kill you- oh there's the cliff.. right.Then.

CASE 39 really is a bad film. So bad that I found it to be near unwatchable, and for once it's not down to the storyline, as clichéd and predictable as it is. For anyone interested in the narrative, this tells virtually the same story as the same year's ORPHAN, concerning a little girl who's being seemingly abused by her parents and subsequently rescued by the social care system. Unfortunately the girl is hiding a dark secret...No, the problem with CASE 39 isn't the story, as rubbishy as it is, but the casting. Renee Zellweger bags the main protagonist role and she is completely AWFUL in the part. Whether it's her wheezing, affected voice, her squinty eyes or her frankly laughable emoting, she brings down every scene in which she appears and given that she's in the film for 90% of the running time, that's not good.Apart from Zellweger, this isn't too bad, just lacklustre. Ian McShane has a nice supporting role and it's good to see him taking a bigger physical role in the proceedings than usual. One set-piece involving an oven is truly shocking and the best bit in the film. There are a handful of supernatural scare scenes which utilise CGI but are okay - the bit with Bradley Cooper is quite amusing. I wasn't too taken with Jodelle Ferland's performance but at least she plays it subdued for two thirds of the film. But Zellweger is so poor that she makes this film near unwatchable as a result.