Odd Thomas

Yep, he's an odd one all right. You're likely to get tired of hearing about it pretty quick, though.

Odd Thomas is an engagingly lightweight and occasionally visually inventive film that should appeal to Koontz fans and anyone else open to his whimsical approach to horror.

An endearing, witty romantic dramedy-slash-supernatural-thriller about a small desert town in California beset by demonic apparitions and a satanic cabal of deranged would-be mass murderers.

They've given this once-promising character a fate similar to death-a pretty bad movie.

At once comic, tragic and goofily romantic, and resting too often on Odd's clarifying narration, this young-adult lark breaches the nonsense barrier with some regularity.

Odd Thomas has high-speed chases, explosions, narrow escapes and masses of special effects-none special enough, I'm afraid, to save it from mediocrity.

Subscribes to the notion that Hollywood entertainment consists of hammering the senses until the viewer has lost any semblance of intelligent thought.

A film that bungles the essence of romantic relationships, comedic timing, and preternatural thrills.

Odd Thomas has one really good thing going for it, and that's Anton Yelchin. After that, there's not much there.

Has enough character to be an entertaining ride despite the occasional narrative stumble