Possession (2002) - 2 stars out of 10

Possession (2002) - 2 stars out of 10

“Possession” was… boring.  I don’t know how a story with so much potential can fall so flat, especially with Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart at the helm.  Netflix labels it as a thriller (which was the first misleading mistake) and, even though the synopsis didn’t seem very thrilling, that was my expectation.  I suppose that there were some thrilling moments like discovering a hidden letter in a doll house and discovering a cave behind a water fall, but let’s consider the maximum level of potential excitement in either of those things.  A lot of the momentum is lost by constantly shifting to uneventful flashbacks and even with Jeremy Northam appearing in the flashbacks (misleading mistake number two), it was still uninteresting.  I guess that some of the twists are interesting (sort-of), but overall this is a boring story with a boring script that will lose your attention after about 10 boring minutes.