Fresh and Exciting

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

It started off interesting enough. I liked the opening scene and the kidnap scenario was kind of interesting. And then it just went downhill fast. Bad script, lousy direction and woeful acting (not entirely the actors fault given the bad script/direction) and a silly messy storyline make for a snooze-fest that had me reaching for the fastforward button very early in the show. The child actor was wooden and unconvincing. His acting abilities were limited to looking vaguely bored and looking vaguely smug. He wasn't creepy or scary. Just irritating and precocious. There was no suspense, no thrills, no scares, no intrigue, no drama, no originality, just nothing. I honestly can't see who would like this film. Finally, I couldn't care less about any of the characters or what happened to them, they were non-entities with no personalities or interesting characteristics. Except the kid, he was annoying me so badly with his wooden acting and lame smug expression I was hoping someone would kill him and put us all out of our misery. Fortunately that wasn't necessary as I simply pressed eject immediately after yet another smug look from the child and stopped watching the movie about half way through. Don't waste your time on this one. If you want to see truly creepy child actors, good acting, a good plot and experience true jump scares & suspense watch Mama instead.

Not terribly impressed with Whisper for reasons that follow. The trailer pretty much gives everything away. What you see is what you get, except that the film does have a few twists and turns. The child actor who, as we know from the trailer, is abducted, is almost nauseatingly conceited and OVER ACTS in his role. There are some interesting parts of the storyline which could have been better developed, not to mention a deeper character development wouldn't have hurt. There are times it seems the film drags on and then "BOO", a scary moment appears. I read some other reviews of this title and someone compared this film to The Ring and The Omen. The Ring? No, The Ring was very well done and Whisper is nothing like The Ring, which did have genuine creepy moments. As for The Omen, well, we know (again just by viewing the trailer) that there is something wrong with this boy but I wouldn't go so far as to say that it is as good as The Omen. Similar behaviour, perhaps, but nowhere near as good. Finally, I did enjoy the kidnapping aspects and how that unfolded, which made the film more of a Thriller.This film is great for the average individual or group looking for a scary thrill but will not hold up to the standards of big Horror fans.

Okay, I realize it's not very friendly to refer to any certain film with the words "weak – derivative – implausible" directly in the subject line, but "Whisper" truly is yet another umpteenth mundane and forgettable attempt at horror/thriller and I honestly don't see any reason to encourage anyone to see it. Everyone whose even remotely interested in the thriller genre has seen this type of story numerous times before, only … the vast majority of the other versions are quite superior. "Whisper" again revolves on an evil child, a 9-year-old called David, who terrorizes a bunch of adults. This time the adults are a bunch of dimwit criminals that kidnapped David for ransom, but obviously they didn't count on having abducted a brat from hell. David can plant murderous thoughts into people's minds, controls wild dogs and has telekinetic powers. Basically this means that he is more lethal than "Carrie" and Damien from "The Omen" combined. On top of that, he's also a manipulative little bastard and even manages to make the kidnappers mistrust each other. Needless to say the story of "Whisper" is overly silly and on the verge of preposterous even. There isn't any suspense to detect throughout the entire movie simply because the plot is too grotesque and the characters are totally uninteresting. The female lead can still count on some sympathy, but the movie stupidly undermines this by revealing her fade at the very beginning of the film already. As a horror picture, "Whisper" fails tremendously as well, with dull and totally laughable death sequences. Seriously, a heart-attack?!? Simply in order not to come across as an utterly negative sourpuss, I do want to emphasize that the film does feature a few bright elements as well. The snowy Maine filming locations, for example, are quite atmospheric and the young Blake Woodruff does a surprisingly impressive job as the little demonic bastard. And, last but not least, the soundtrack contains a terrific use of "Ring of Fire" by the almighty Johnny Cash and that alone deserves another extra point.

This is one of those movies that is not bad, it's simply nothing special. It's highly predictable and doesn't manage to scare you at all - or barely at best. If you haven't read the description of the movie you will most likely be able to predict the rest of the movie by the time you figure out what's going on.This movie is a typical mediocre horror movie that is a good example of why horror movies aren't more popular. The story is very simple and nothing really happens that is interesting or unpredictable. It's just one cliché after another.The actors are alright, though. The ending was the best part of the movie. That's it. Nothing else to see.