Shadow (2009)

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I have recently watched this story and have now read the reviews. My take on the ending seems to have missed the point if the other reviewers are accurate.I am reminded vaguely of a movie made many years ago with Timothy Bottoms and Donald Sutherland. Yes I had to look it up to get this right. It in my misty memory is a tale about a very seriously injured WW 1 soldier. We are here also treated to the many MENTAL visions with dialogue.While I don't think that we as viewers were deliberately given real clues. The tale just goes along with our hero and the potential love interest having a bad time with the stereotypical bad and hard people.The end tells me the THICKO that our story teller like in so many tales is either dead or in a seriously injured condidtion. In this case I feel that he like our man Joe in 'Johnny Got His Gun' mentioned earlier is living an unreal life due to memories imagined but we are privy at the end of the movie to a reality remembered as opposed to a reality created within an injured mind.Dreams tend to have a staggered unrelated sequence of events.The 'bad' tough men were his military colleagues, perhaps now dead, the operating theatre nurse his love interest the surgeons his torturers. I do not know about illegal drug affects but I was on legal serious medication for a few months post hospitalization and I remember having many seemingly realistic dreams. Some may call them out of body experiences.With my feeling that this is what was being told then the poor acting seen by so many is irrelevant. I am being told probably an all too typical in this age of young men being sent for slaughter in a difficult to understand the reasons why conflict area. Waking up periodically in a situation they cannot recognise. For that reason alone I feel that the film story is a little better than middling.I am not anti USA as such but at times it does take a lot to completely feel good towards them when certain combat reports are broadcast considering we in the UK are not only tarred with the same brush but have so many wishing to emulate perceived behaviour as in the movies. That was just to let anyone reading know that I have no political axe to grind. I served my own country for many many years both as military and latterly as part of the correction services.I do hope my take on the intended storyline is accurate.

I got to say that I'm not big fan of Italian horror movies, but seeing trailer for this movie, got me interested.Great beginning of the movie, intense (usually love outdoor horror movies) and fun. But, when started "bloody part" of film, I was disappointed. As I love to see blood, cutting, torturing and things like that on horror, I was not so satisfied with "killing scenes", 'cause they were not showed (camera would go up in the air or would be filming from distance). I was expecting a little bit more gory scenes in movie. Plot was good, main actor was good, not great, but at least good looking (watched with my friends, so we liked to see him on screen :)), the killer was creepy and convincing and for the first director's horror movie it was really good.Watchable movie, definitely didn't waste my time, but could have been a lot better.

I'm surprised some people are not liking this movie.. I think it's just great and scary as hell. Watched it with my girlfriend a couple of days back, and we still have nightmares because of that creepy villain!!!!Actually I'm not crazy for horror movies, especially those where people get tortured... they are often a little goofy and nonsense; but this one has something special, I mean it's not the same murderous movie for bloodthirsty young guys... it's more about reality, wars, and human fears. I guess fans of splatter and gory stuffs will probably be disappointed after watching this title... it's a little too classy for them. not kidding at all, it's true. I was impressed also by the score, it plays like a goblin's stuff very very cool and potent. definitely one not to give a miss.

because face it, good Italian horror movies are OVER. There's no more Deodato, no more Argento (at least he doesn't have any good ideas left), no more Bava, no more Fulci. Guys like this Zampaglione (leader of a boring Italian pop band, by the way) try to revamp a genre that has nothing to do with them, filling movies with clichès and Hollywood influences, with LAME results. I'm Italian, I love cannibal holocaust, I love deep red, I love most of Fulci movies, and it pains me to say PLEASE don't be hyped just because this is an Italian horror movie: it's dull, boring, gratuitous, full of clichès and ideas that have already been explored way better, and does not deserve a good score on this site.