Dark Water

This movie gets a 6.5/10 on the Rachel scale. The half is optimistic, because I felt bad about giving it a 6 when it was tolerable. Jennifer Connelly looks like she starved herself for this role. I know the whole size 0-2 bit is in, but when your face looks gaunt and you appear generally ill you may have gone too far. Then again, the role calls for this, with Connelly popping pills and losing entire days. The "dark water" scenes are creepy in and of themselves, although the previews give pretty much ALL of the drama away. I had no idea it rained EVERY day in New York, but according to this movie such is the case. The apartment Connelly's character takes is repulsive. I cannot imagine anyone renting such a run-down, creepy, cramped place even before the water incidents begin. And there are items thrown into the movie that end up having no purpose. Connelly's husband (they are separating as the movie begins) apparently pays some guys to harass her (by saying she's hot and then standing in her way when she goes to do laundry), then we never see them again after this discovery. Her lawyer (played by Tim Roth -- I didn't even recognize him!) makes excuses of "being with his family" when he is alone (suggesting that he is going to end up bad when he is really the best thing to happen to her). The general creepiness of the building's super is also never borne out. And the whole bit about the "safety glass" in the shower (as they are initially shown the apartment) just screams "there is going to be a scene where someone gets stuck in the shower and she can't break the glass." DUH. I am generally disappointed in the lack of quality in movies lately. This one is okay. At the very least I will be leery of drinking tap water or entering old, dilapidated buildings in New York anytime in the near future.