Nine Lives (2002)

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It surprises me that in all these reviews nobody mentioned the weirdness or unrealistic thing of all these people (nine) that they all decided to go car-free? Who does that especially in the middle of nowhere? I can't believe nobody felt vulnerable out there without their cars? And, are we forced to believe that only one person brought a cell phone - B.S.! This story had too many flaws in it. Unlike most people here I had little problem with Paris Hilton's acting. It's not like she's an accomplished actor or anything. She was portrayed exactly as one would expect. People like her and Kim Kardashian are just eye-candy (for people who find them attractive.). I think Kim's very attractive, but Paris Hilton she's funny looking but not ugly though, so she's passable.

I had no delusions going into this. Before I'd read a single review here, I knew Paris Hilton couldn't act. And she certainly didn't disappoint me.But this picture has much bigger problems than her. In trying to meld TEN LITTLE INDIANS with EVIL DEAD, they've managed to dredge up every cliché possible. The result often plays like a TV movie. In fact, aside from a little blood here and there it played like a Movie of the Week.Great castle. Most of the actors (save Hilton) were not so bad. Passable lighting.But where's the originality? Any originality...

this movie is OK for the horror genre.it's nothing new or special,but the genre has produced worse.i didn't find the acting all that bad.again,it wasn't great,but i've seen worse.Paris Hilton is in this one,and is no better or worse than anyone else in the movie.i didn't find the movie particularly scary or thrilling.but then a lot of so called horror movies aren't scary,merely disgusting.but i did think it was passable entertainment for 85 minutes or so.if you go in expecting award winning acting,and anything but a time waster,you'll be disappointed.if you've never seen one of these types of movies,you might find it scary.otherwise,just enjoy watching characters doing the stupid things they do in these movies before getting dispatched.for me,Nine Lives is a 4.5/10

Nine friends celebrate at a mansion in Scotland. After a little dinner and drinking and too much conversation, one friend stumbles upon a curse and one by one the guests are faced with the threat of death.This film has so many problems with it, I don't know where to begin. First, the film "stars" Paris Hilton, even though she has the smallest role in the movie. I suspect her presence is the only reason the film was picked up at all, even though she serves no purpose and cannot act in this movie to save her life (she's worse in this than in "House of Wax").When the Lions Gate logo came on, my friend and I thought we might be safe. Lions Gate makes some great films. Well, they make bad films, too, it seems. What possessed them to put their name on here, I don't know. With all due respect, I hope they lost money.The first half of the film is a dinner scene with people sitting and talking about literally nothing. Nothing of interest, nothing related to the plot, nothing. A brief philosophical debate arises, but goes nowhere. As my friend says, this film was very innovative for a horror film: it might have been the first one that tried to kill the audience.The death scenes are horrible. Basically, all deaths consist of a stabbing in the stomach: a magic stabbing! Shirts are never torn, but somehow a small blood stain appears and the victim becomes quite dead at a rapid pace.None of the actors are worth caring about and the whole film is in shambles. Most annoying for me (besides the utter boredom) was the tendency to remind us we were in Scotland (the words "Scotland" or "Scotish" were repeated many times... for no reason. And there was a golf club).This film is even too slow and pointless for "Mystery Science Theater 3000", so if there is a way to make something blink out of existence (like a memory hole), someone please make this your first target.