The pre-release buzz on Hide and Seek starring Robert De Niro and child star Dakota Fanning had been bad enough. The actual reviews are mostly worse. Debra Birnbaum in the New York Post describes it as a schlocky thriller choking under the weight of its own psychobabble." Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal sums up the movie this way: "Robert De Niro collects another stupendous paycheck for starring in another piece of exploitable junk." Likewise Tom Maurstad in the Dallas Morning News comments: "Add this movie to Robert De Niro's climb up Mount Hackdom." Ann Hornaday in the Washington Post observes that at times it "veers tantalizingly close to being one of those movies that is so bad it's good, but in the end, it's so bad it's just . . . bad." |