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~ Movie What Lies Beneath gets a great cast

~ However, it turns out to be a common ghost story

~ In this essay, I am going to argue that this movie is not an outstanding one

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~ There is a great star in this movie, Michelle Pfeiffer

~ Pfeiffer successfully gets hold of the thrilling emotion towards his husband, as well as the ghost

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~ Apart from Pfeiffer, the atmosphere of this movie is also good

~ With breathing and sound from walking, the exciting atmosphere is produced

~ The breathing pushes the atmosphere to its forefront

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~ The movie gets a disastrous screenplay which devastates the movie

~ The story is badly written. The first forty-five minutes of the movie, is nonsense

~ The screenplay writer cannot organize it well and loses the cohesion to the other half of the movie

~ Adding this part aims at lengthening the movie

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~ Some plots of this movie are also unreasonable

~ There are many mysterious questions

~ The movie is not convincing at all

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~ The plots are also not exceptional

~ We can foresee the story

~ If we have watched quite a lot American ghost movies, we will understand how this movie is only an assortment of plots

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~ This movie is not outstanding, mostly because it lacks a theme

~ This movie aims at scaring us only

~ It is meaningless and only for entertainment

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~ What Lies Beneath is a typical ghost movie only

~ It is good for entertainment, but without any value for film study