82%?
Why?
What for?

It is over-rated, over-praised and leaves you with fewer hearing nerve cells.
It has a fat idiot running about their own house screaming 'ghosts!'
How does that make it "the scariest movie of the year?"
Can't remember it being the worst year for horror...

Beautiful...
A treat...
A drug - will watch it again, and again, and again...

I'm afraid I have to disagree with most of you. While this is not an epic movie of the century, it certainly is not a failure!
Lacking in thought-activating ingredients, it wows your eyes with its beatiful setting, perfect english and charming cast. At no point was I planning what I was going to do later that day and I didn't feel like I've wasted my money again as I was leaving the cinema.
I might have overrated it a little... I just can't help but feel sympathy for Mike Newell - it's not easy to please a crowd that has been fullfilled with the same story (the game).
Not every movie has to be original, complicated, smart and have "a hidden meaning" - we watch them for entertainment, and The Sands of Time did it's job.