Soap opera movie making....

What was Roger Ebert thinking? This movie has an awful script ("You can't kill people with voodoo! That's ridiculous!"), which is the least of its problems. It has disjointed editing, mediocre acting (and that's being kind; the relationship between the two young sisters is never convincing, not for a moment), and characters who are so shallow they are impossible to care about. For years, I've heard terrific things, and finally caught up to this film. I'm not sorry I did, because even a bad movie experience can be instructive, but this felt like it came out of a book written by some fourth-rate author like Danielle Steele, Michael Crichton, Stephen King, or Terry McMillan. This is not high art, not by a long shot. Instead of a compelling story that grew from a seed, it has the feel of a movie written by someone who sat down and said, "I want to write a movie about a family with a crazy aunt and a few other bizarre characters. Let's put them in Louisiana and see if voodoo makes it interesting."

Completely overrated.