Far from great but also not outright bad, The Messengers is best as a background movie, having some decent acting & effects marred by subpar direction & a poor script.

makes 0 sense the guy gets killed by crow.... thats just dumb ... period

"The Messengers" has an interesting plot, nice horror effects, good direction and cinematography. Although, it definitely had more of a suspenseful edge in the first half. Kristen Stewart 100% delivered in this film for the audience to buy in to the whole movie's premise - juggling both being utterly terrified, curious and dependable despite no one, not even her family believing her.

The visual effects and style are very nice to look at, the vast majority of shots are nice, the sound design is great. Overall very solid technical aspects. The story though is not every original, it's a pretty standard ghost story. It's not very creative. There are some good scares and a very hot Kristen Stewart but ultimately lacking any special or any true horror.

How can they stay at home after all what has done ? nothing in the end explain anything !

es una buena pelicula digna del terror y suspenso para verla en una noche como halloween, una historia muy original.

Visuals are pretty good. The story was a little lacking and relied too much on jump scares. All in all, it was trying to be something like The Shining.

Basically rips off elements from several other far superior horror films, an extremely skinny 16 year old Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller and an adorable toddler move to a sunflower farm in North Dakota that has ghosts, a homicidal maniac and a bunch of evil crows.

Bad watch, probably won't watch again, and can't recommend. I actually like Kristen Stewart, and I think she performed decently in this, but she worked her ass off carrying the movie. John Corbett was the only other person pulling their weight in this movie. The story itself was okay, but it does have a lot of problems. My biggest was just their defiance of reality. The "in you face" thing is that the farm is plague with "crows" that are clearly ravens. This is done because you can train ravens much easier, but they're GIANT birds by average comparison of what size birds most people see. And then they do stupid things like leave feed out far enough away from where you would take it (those are not light bags), and when birds come, he shoos them farther into the car as the trunk is the only part open. They are planting sunflower seeds, which just means lots of things trying to eat it, but the timeline is all over the place. They go to plant seeds, and there are tiny plants in the background. There is an incident early on, then what seems like a week passes, but then it's almost end of harvest. And then there is still a giant bag of seeds to plant, and it isn't part of the harvest because it's by itself and I don't think they start harvesting during the movie. There is also the mold which she doesn't seem to know how to treat or why it would come back...just silly. But its details like these that show how poorly written the script is, especially the dialogue. The effects are actually pretty interesting, they did a good job on the birds, the wall, and the "flowing ground" was really interesting, but it's not enough to have a cool effect or two. You might as well, just have lots of odd explosions then. Overall, just not worth the watch, unless you want to see a movie where Kristen Stewart is objectively the best actor.

effectively atmospheric and creepy even if it brings nothing new to the table.

Wow this movie DOES NOT age well at all. It’s like a horrible cheap version of The Ring/The Grudge and The Amityville Horror

This Movie Is Awesome , Just Good For My Money🤟👏👍

Freaky tricks and voluntary muting for a desired effect won't be able to exorcise this utterly inconsistent haunt of cheaply fashioned scares. (C)

I,Pam Richards LOVES the Messengers movie,because i LOVE Horror movies the best even though they give me panic attacks,nightmares and ENJOYMENT most of all!!!Keep up the GREAT WORK!!!

A few scares in a thriller that manages to rip off several different horror films and genres.

Not even remotely scary and the acting is plain bad.

I think this was awesome and Kristen Stewart was great

its a good movie. i think its scarier than other scary movies

The Messengers has the beginnings of a frightening, effectively basic throwback to supernatural chillers, but given the amount of writers and directors on board, nothing particularly scary or fresh is presented to the table, resulting in a film that adds little to the haunted house subgenre.

Dumb and stupid and dumb. My quality of life is poorer for having watched it. No that's probably not entirely fair. It's far from the worst movie I've ever seen. But it truly was a disappointment, and I'd advise against watching it.