Thr3e: Critic Reviews

Thr3e needs help with more than spelling.

There are no dead bodies here, but perhaps filmgoers, tired of all those secular scares and heathen horrors, won't miss the aesthetic pleasure of a creative murder scene.

It's a pretty run-of-the-mill B suspense movie.

Directed by Robby Henson, this theologically driven thriller from 20th Century Fox's Fox Faith division, steps gingerly around sex and watches its tongue. But it's far too comfy with the lingua franca of American cinema: violence.

The vile sadism of the Saw movies has been replaced by decorative references to Saint Augustine and Immanuel Kant, and there's a beautiful but brainy police profiler (Justine Waddell) on hand to dispense a thick layer of psychobabble.

Rent Se7en for an authentically scary thriller with religious undertones.

There's precious little in the way of clammy tension or mounting apprehension as Thr3e plods toward a climax that is startlingly absurd, yet not entirely illogical.

Suspenselessly directed by Robby Henson, Thr3e commits the eighth deadly sin -- boredom.

Ultimately Three, for all its philosophizing, is little more than a standard serial-killer movie with pretensions.

about half-way through the film, I started to get a sinking feeling that this was leading to a giant cliche

...a mix of earnest uncertainty and shameless over-the-top hamminess.

If you happen to be a sheltered religious kid who's dying to see a serial-killer movie but is barred by parental authority from seeing any film containing profanity, gore, or sexual tension, this is your chance.

The scene of faux flames burning in front of a city bus will go down in the annals of Le Cinema du Frommage.

It's hard to imagine an audience that will be satisfied.

A bad movie only fans of deeply bad movies can love.

It's relentlessly mediocre and does not belong in a venue where you'll have to pay $9 to see it.

I've seen films that said nothing in entertaining, even compelling ways. 'Thr3e' is not one of them. At least it's not wholesome too.

Thr3e is an eccentric combination of horror film and religious morality play that isn't entirely successful on either level but gets by on the sheer professionalism of its makers.

It's awfully familiar, right up to the ending, which bogarts the ending of another recent thrill-kill movie but, in fairness, I won't reveal that flick's identity.

Ultimately aimed at a Christian audience looking for genre entertainment with a certain sense of propriety, the film tries to serve two masters and doesn't quite deliver for either.

It has a triple-twist ending, highly appropriate for a picture whose plot depends on permutations of the number three, and I'll bet at least two of those surprise you.

A tame variation on the usual serial-killer art direction and a hilarious number of A-Team-style explosions in which no one is killed. It's offensively dull.

...it's not undone by preachiness or an excess of cant, it's undone by indifferent performances, cheesy special effects and the general incredulousness of the script.

Thr3e is far short of Se7en.