Dark Places (2015)
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Critic Consensus: Dark Places has a strong cast and bestselling source material, but none of it adds up to more than a mediocre thriller that gets tripped up on its own twists.
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as Libby Day
as Lyle Wirth
as Ben Day
as Young Diondra
as Patty Day
as Young Ben Day
as Young Libby Day
as Diondra
as Runner Day
as Trey Teepano
as Young Trey Teepano
as Diane
as Michelle Day
as Debby Day
as Magda
as Crystal
as Calvin Diehl
as Krissi Cates
as Young Krissi Cates
as Krissi Cates' Mother
as Lou Cates
as Joseph
as Jim Jeffreys
as Bob Berdella
as Bert Nolan
as Detective
as Frederick Baker Look-Alike
as Child Psychiatrist
as Kill Club Solver
as Robert
as Kill Club Solver
as Warehouse Guitarist
as Warehouse Girl
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Critic Reviews for Dark Places
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That unnerving way Flynn has of taking us to dark, deliciously twisted places has been utterly massacred.
The third offering from Flynn Dark Places does its best to stir a multitude of emotions within us, but in doing so, the film feels contrived and hurried.
The surface level generic pleasures of Dark Places and the stellar cast are entertaining enough, even if it doesn't quite stick the landing.
The mystery itself eventually becomes tiresome and shrug-worthy, even as the film breathlessly racks up the revelations.
Director Gilles Paquet-Brenner marshaled a top-tier cast and commanded them to tromp across Flynn's intelligent bestseller like investigators muddying a crime scene.
Each flashback or revelatory conversation fills in a few more details of the overheated story without giving us a reason to care about it in the first place.
Audience Reviews for Dark Places
Coming off the success of 'Gone Girl', Dark Places is the adaptation of Gillian Flynn's 2009 novel of the same name and it's all about re-visiting an old case (25 years old) who some say is still unsolved, and so begins the movie. The story was adequate, I was kept intrigued throughout even if the film did drag in some places. The switching between past and present was needed in order to maintain the suspense and fill in details about the plot, so that was good choice. The film was well shot and well directed. Theron and Hoult were excellent, in fact the whole cast was good, especially Sheridan. So why did i not overly enjoy it? Firstly the major twist of the film is way too predictable, too many characters and not enough screen time to actually establish their purpose to the story and finally the characters themselves just aren't likeable. We're supposed to relate to Theron's character and sympathise with her, but she just isn't likeable and thus ultimately did not care for the outcome. If you have low expectations, you may enjoy this film for what it is, and that's a slow dark mystery film...just don't expect to be wowed by it.
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Go in with lowered expectations, and you might end up doing alright out of Dark Places. If nothing else, you've got to at the very least admire that cast.
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So disappointed. I loved the book, but this felt blah to me. Dark and dull to look at, even the cast looked unattractive, and that's quite an achievement. I was bored and I knew what to expect. Admittedly this is because I read the book, but I can't imagine being overly enthralled even if I hadn't. A lot of bits and characters were left out and some of the cast also didn't look right. It felt like a TV movie to me.
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Dark Places Quotes
| Libby Day: | I'm not ready for this. |
| Libby Day: | I was eight the night they were killed. The little orphan girl from the Kansas prairie massacre. |