But as loud and in-your-face as these developments are presented, they amount to a shabby collection of Blumhouse-lite scenes that would be a parody if it weren’t so dull. It’s a tense atmosphere, so much that when strange things start to happen they seem like diversions, like when Greg gets locked in a closet chasing the family hamster, or the silverware vanishes from the kitchen drawers. On a smaller scale, something even more scandalous is afoot-his wife Jackie ( Helen Hunt) has recently cheated on him, which comes up in numerous terse exchanges that she has with Greg or their moody teenage son, Conor ( Judah Lewis). He soon joins the roster of other missing kids in a small town, where Detective Greg Harper ( Jon Tenney) is trying to piece clues together (like a green Swiss Army knife) before there are more disappearances. A boy, riding his bike through the woods, is yanked into thin air as if he had reached the end of a bungie cord. For its initial 40 plodding minutes, the clumsy thriller “I See You” works very hard to get your attention.
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