This movie started with an interesting premise, so my fiancée and I wanted to see it. I got a funny feeling though when I walked in and Michael Keaton was written above the movie in big letters. Not a good sign.
The movie starts with Jonathan Rivers (Michael Keaton) having a good day with his new writer wife and his son. Then later that night his wife does not come home. But something weird happens at 2:30! Weird things keep happening throughout the movie at 2:30 A.M., but it never really adds up to anything. Eventually we find out Jonathan’s wife is dead. A weird guy contacts Jonathan saying he has been talking to his dead wife, through the white noise. There is a very annoying dizzying camera shot right at this time, which is awful.
At first, Jonathan thinks the guy is insane but soon he becomes obsessed with contacting his wife through white noise too and becomes friends with the crazy guy. Then he goes out and buys a lot of stuff at the Sony Store to help him do this. He believes his wife is contacting him; telling him to help other people. The movie never seems to address the possibility that Jonathan and a few others that practice EVP, which is contacting the dead through white noise, maybe do not actually talk to their dead relatives but just imagine it to keep them from grieving as much. This and many other themes that could have been are not explored.
I would tell you more of the plot but I might give stuff away. After about 40 minutes I was bored, nothing had happened. Characters come in and out, events happen, and none of them seems to mean anything. You think maybe it will end like the Forgotten with aliens, or like Identity with everything taking place in his mind. Unfortunately, its ending is even worse than those two awful movies. Do not watch this movie.