Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Overrated

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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

Not a COMPLETE waste of time. It is predictable and trite, but I managed to sit through it's entirety. It is almost one of those movies that you love to hate. Almost. In this film there are a few people upon whom I wish ill, and things with which I had serious issues: High school students? Not believable. College students would have been less of a stretch.D-Bag kid whose uncle is the chief of police? I wish I could punch people through the internet. His D-Bag girlfriend as well. I was glad you died.Uncle Chief of Police? Could you make me roll my eyes any harder with your over the top portrayal? I think not.Lou Diamond Phillips? Your character deserved to die. I liked you in Young Guns and The First Power. This one, not so much.The parents? Oh. My. God. How can one's performance be simultaneously wooden AND over acted? Think Crispin Glover in "Back to the Future": "Hey... You... ...Get... Your... Damn... Hands... Off... Her." Thanks, Mom. Dad, grow a pair. Seriously. I *did* think of a fitting demise for the pair, though. Dry well, about 40 feet deep. Spikes at the bottom. Mom and dad are tied together with about 20 feet of rope. Mom gets tossed in, and at the rate of 32.2 feet per second, Dad has a little more than a second to actually do something. Which the movie quite clearly established he won't. So, she's impaled, and he gets to die thinking about how he did nothing once again.This was one of those movies where it is actually more fun to have these sort of discussions during and after. Watch it if you have someone who is amused by your rants.

Fingerprints. A 2006 horror/slasher movie. I went in expecting a low budget wannabe horror movie.Fingerprints is a story about Melanie, a recovered teenage drug addict who overdosed and was brought back to life. She moves back in with her family. Her sister and dad are welcoming, her mom is a little crazy. Her sister, Crystal, explains the local tragedy to her. 50 years ago, a train and bus collided, killing 30 or so school aged children. According to urban legend, if you park your car in neutral where the accident takes place, the car will move itself across the train tracks to safety. Some people have supposedly seen fingerprints on the back of the car, as if they were pushing it across.Melanie is skeptical of the legend, but when she and her drunken friends experience it first-hand, Melanie starts to believe. Her thoughts are pushed more toward the legend when she sees a little girl, and when she researches the accident, realizes that the girl died in the bus accident. Melanie's near-death experience allows her to see the dead.The plot line and urban legend are top of the class. The film becomes a thriller toward the middle of the movie, but also becomes scarier. Despite a slow start, the movie picks up pace and the whodunit element adds to the excitement.The acting is the weak spot of the movie. Melanie and Crystal have strong counterparts, as well as Penn, Melanie's lover in the movie. Besides that however, none of the characters are believable. Especially Melanie's mom. I could not buy into her character it was so unbelievable. That could be a director's choice or an acting choice, but regardless, it was embarrassing to watch.If you are looking for an enjoyment of a ride, I encourage you to watch Fingerprints. It's on Netflex, and I can guarantee you it won't disappoint.8/10

I was immediately put off by the opening titles which looked like something done on a cheap home computer. Shortly thereafter, the film starts with a flashback to 1957, and yet the train shown heading towards the school bus is clearly modern - it could have been filmed without showing the actual design of the locomotive. And then the acting begins. The main character Melanie (Leah Pipes) is reunited with her father, who acts like ... an actor selling himself as a doting father. But through all the early put-offs, I watched the whole film. If this had a $1M budget, much of the money must have gone to the most well-known actors, cos it just seemed like the film needed more money for better production. When you lose viewers' ability to believe in what you're showing, it can be an uphill struggle to win back the audience. And, it didn't need so much special effects, but perhaps better cinematography and lighting. The little girl that Melanie routinely encounters could have been filmed with some kind of eerie lighting based on the fact that she's been dead (not spoilers, part of the film plot). Yet we're left guessing whether Melanie actually knows she IS dead in the first third of the movie. The story is simply hurt by some less-than-good film-making. The plot itself kept me curious enough to keep watching the next scene, even after the death of one character, whose acting made me roll my eyes. Melanie and her sister are better than most... their mother made me want to strangle her myself, so she is effective as a rude mother - until she simply goes overboard with her actions later in the film.Yet for the film's underachievement, it still has some moments in which my neck hair stood up. The screenwriter hurt a promising story just enough to call it average, yet still watchable and entertaining enough, and even though I actually didn't mind the core reasons why things happened, I groaned at the very end of the film, which made me want to throw buttered popcorn at my HDTV. I'm just glad I didn't have any at the time.

A horror movie must have many given aspects, before it captures the loyalty of it's audience. The initial ingredient of course is suspense. This must be followed by a solid story line which conjures up the dark side of imagination. Lastly, it must be held solidly by the actors which must convince the audience of their fear, terror and apprehension. In this movie which is called " Fingerprints " several key aspects are definitely present. The story is that in a small town, a dramatic and mysterious event took place which centered around the deaths of a dozen children. It seems a bus load of school children were killed when their vehicle was hit by a passing train. Years later Melanie (Leah Pipes) a returning resident arrives to finish high school, learns this may not be true. Her parents worry about her as she is also a recovering drug addict who suffers from residual delusions. From the moment she starts school, she becomes aware of her tenuous situation with her strict parents, her insincere counselor and the reoccurring apparition of one of the dead children. The movie has the surprising addition of two Hollywood veterans, Lou Diamond Phillips who plays Doug and Geoffrey Lewis playing old man Keeler. Unfortunately, the film also contains several repetitive themes borrowed from 'The Sixth Sense', 'Scream' and 'Holloween' and further does not resolve some very tense and dramatic moments. As a result, the movie is deemed acceptable, though it tries very hard to become the corner stone of an anticipated sequel. ****