Goldblum is just right for the role. Even under normal circumstances
he often seems to be trying to tune into a clouded frequency. Here he spends
the whole movie doing that — getting his wife to
shut up while he looks off into space, listening, nodding and saying things
like, “Sweetie, that girl isn't missing . . . she's dead.''
It's a signature quality of Goldblum's, his being able to say anything
from “How are you?'' to “She's dead'' in the same tone of
voice, and have it seem perfectly natural.
Goldblum is always enjoyable, but in “Hideaway,'' now available on
home video, that means only that he makes a tedious film intermittently
tolerable. From the minute his visions begin, the course of “The Hideaway''
is inevitable. The story must converge in a confrontation between nice-guy
Hatch (Goldblum) and the psycho (Jeremy Sisto). The rest is waiting.