Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

bernie-122 I haven't been so disappointed since Bush got reelected. I was mainly interested in this movie because Tommy Lee Jones was in it, and I would have to say he did an admirable job with the senseless drivel he was forced to deliver. Kathleen Turner is not one of my favourites, but here I just wanted to reach in and strangle her. The whole thing was a spielbergesque schmaltzfest of embarrassing proportions, and what flabbergasts me is that so many people seem to embrace it on so many levels, as if it actually had something meaningful to say.It is insulting that they should be able to take a condition such as autism (which the child doesn't have but the movie wants you to think she does) and trivialize it and make it the centrepiece of a maudlin, unrealistic dumbed down piece of soap drama.The eponymous house of gravity-defying cards itself could not, by any stretch, have been built by a 6-year-old, or anyone else. The virtual reality simulations depicted were preposterous in 1993; today they are a ludicrous parody. Those are just a couple of the obvious technical failures.I am quite prepared to suspend my notions of plausibility to allow artistic fulfillment, but that only works when it is needed as a vehicle to get the message through. There is no message here, it is just fatuous nonsense of the worst kind: Deliberate emotional manipulation of the sort that Mr. Spielberg is a master of.This doesn't work on me, and I find it dismaying that it does seem to work on so many others, as shown here by how few reviewers were able to see through it. If you like having your intelligence insulted, then by all means, watch this.

beeoverlookingflowers-fr This review is meant to offer 2 overlooked, and hopefully to some, important points about this film; 1, my take on a viewpoint about a common defect in psychology, frequently "criticized" in film story lines (One Flew Over The Cukokoo's Nest"); and 2, an important point other reviewers may have missed about the native-American in the high-rise construction scene. Number two first: I'm guessing the writer was trying to share the unique and valuable reputation that the Mohican tribe has gained over the decades as having some form of inborn special talent as iron workers and incomparable abilities to work at great heights with amazing balance and self-confidence. If one believes in the ability of children to read more about the intangible side of people than adults can then the writers selecting a such a scene to share with viewers about Mohicans also shows the child's ability to connect with another person who shared her lack of fear for heights, besides just this mans color of skin (similar to what she had experienced at the archaeological site where this child's father was killed in a falling accident). On point number one, since I have worked with so-called mentally disconnected people, I have NOT always found them as "out-of-it" as professionally claimed. That once famous British psychiatrist C.J. Laing, had a lot to say about this area of so-called "normality". Therefore for me, I found myself back in an argumentative mood with some of the things I used to do in the early 60's that also had unexpected success and for me this WAS the main point the film tried to make. That is this; the difference in the approach of the DR. versus the mom to "bring Sally back" can be summed-up so simply; he was trying to force Sally to come-back to normalcy on HIS terms while the mom was trying to LEAD Sally back by trying to discover how to meet her IN her world on HER terms, if SHE was ready. Take the mom's figuring out what the two boys were REALLY doing who just were exchanging 5 digit numbers as ALL they could converse about. The mom tuned-in quietly went home, input these numbers in the computer and the next day was able to fully join the boys in their conversation, which really upset the arrogant Dr. who himself could have previously done the same at any time and so STILL didn't have a clue. Those who've read and appreciated C.J. Laing, may really have an extra appreciation for this movies as well as those who believe in being way more careful about the human-freedom-rights of so-called mental patients by first exercising a little more intuition and empathy before applying their force and trickery to mandate, NOW, their coming-back to a world they had chosen to leave! Instead try to meet them with love, in their world to see if they are ready to be led back and if not ready yet at least one can try again later and be there when they are ready. I

Jennifer Wow, first may I say how much this movie blew. Maybe it's because I'm familiar with child psychology, but the whole story-line was one big disaster. This movie has nothing to do with autism, (I noticed a reference to that in other comments from viewers) they pretty much thrust you into the movie, the girl is traumatized by her fathers death, (which she didn't see) and the idea is given at the end that the girl is able to see her fathers death through her mother when she is looking at her (telepathy?) and suddenly, she's healed! Tommy Lee Jones being the psychologist doesn't do it, the architect mom does. Sorry, but I'm not an idiot. That doesn't happen in the real world. Anyone who liked this movie probably also thought "Attack of The Killer Tomatoes" was representative of why we should monitor the: food Vs. genetics issues. Rent something like "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" to cleanse your cinematic palate and give yourself some well deserved laughs. I gave it a rating of two just because I like Mr Jones.

bridget-amarant I absolutely loved this movie. It is so different than any other movie I've seen (and I've seen plenty!). People who commented on this movie say that its not reality-that they didn't go into certain aspects of the "problems" at hand in the movie...well, that's what movies are all about. They take you to a different dimension that's not of this world. And this movie deals with taking us to a different world of a child going into a different world. And that, everyone, is what it's all about. I highly recommend this movie to anyone who doesn't want to see the same storyline used in 90% of all movies today, with a touch of dreamscape, and a whole lot of heart. Tommy Lee Jones is perfect as usual, as well as Kathleen Turner. WATCH IT!