Starts with a fresh and unique premise but slowly...It's clever and it's horrific but the outcome is not the best pay off that it could have been. Jessica Biel who I would say is a very so-so actress is rather good in her performance. I really liked the first half of the movie and didn't see many of the twists coming but I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed once I'd reached the conclusion. It's overall a better than average horror flick but there's lots of better ones out there (and even more that are worse).

First of all my wife wasn't a big fan of this movie. Not enough explanations for her and I get that but all in all I thought The Tall Man was original as a story. This story has never been told before and for that it gets some credit from me. It's nicely filmed with enough dark passages, twists and intrigues to keep you interested. It's not a horror movie though. A thriller yes but certainly not a horror movie. The cast is good with good performances, nothing bad to say about them. I liked the fact that I thought I figured it out completely but that at the end I was completely wrong. I like movies that can surprise me. Nothing more boring then a movie where you know exactly what's going to happen next. And that's not the case with The Tall Man at all.

In the small town of Cold Rock, children have been going missing and the local population have given the mystery abductor the name of the "Tall Man". When Julia Denning's (Jessica Biel) child is the latest to be abducted, she sets out to track him down and tries and find out the identity of the mysterious Tall Man.The movie starts off at a good, steady pace and keeps your interest peaked but it's one of those movies where you have to pay really close attention to what is happening as it gets pretty in-depth and confusing as it goes on. The story and idea is quite an interesting and original one, but the direction that the story goes I think it tries to be a bit too clever and instead of being a really good psychological thriller with excellent twists, it becomes a bit of a mess.It's not a movie that spells out what is happening to you on a platter either. It's definitely a "thinker" of a movie and leaves you to work out what's going on for yourself and while that can be a good thing at times, sometimes it's good to have just a wee bit of an explanation for certain things.The Tall Man does make you think, like I say, and it's an OK psychological thriller, but in all honesty it's not the best. It's quite bewildering how it gets high star ratings from people too, but then again if we all liked the same movies and hated the same movies it would become very boring.Not bad but definitely not that great either.

From a technical standpoint, its professionally made. Audio sounds particularly impressive. That said, the story is a whole load of nothing. Jessica Biel is attractive.*warning, massive spoiler alert coming up* The most unexpected member of the community, an attractive nurse (Jessica Biel) is involved in the taking of children from underprivileged families and allowing them to lead a better life with wealthy people. All the while, the families of the missing children put the disappearances down to a mystery character called the Tall Man, who is believed to live in the woods. The nurse believes, by doing what she is doing, she is breaking the cycle of white trash having children only for them to grow up and turn into white trash and have children.How this film got the green light remains a mystery. It's estimated budget was $18,200,000. A figure obtained from IMDb. There's no way this film could have made it's money back.2/10