Told mostly in flashback, Frailty opens with FBI agent Wesley Doyle (Booth), who is in charge of an unsolved case, 'The God's Hand Murders'. He's been called into the office to hear the testimony of Fenton Meiks (McConaughey). Meiks claims that his younger brother, Adam, was behind the slayings and tells Doyle about his childhood. Cutting back a couple of decades, we see Adam (O'Leary), his elder brother Fenton (the expressive Kreis) and their dad (Paxton) are a happy little family. That all changes when dad tells his kids he has been visited by an angel, informing him that his mission is to find demons (who have taken on human form) and kill them. Adam warms to this idea, but Fenton is far more dubious about the sanity of his father.
The directorial debut of Bill Paxton, Frailty is an atmospheric little chiller, which, despite being loaded with plot inconsistencies and discrepancies, manages to convey an admirable level of tension and atmosphere. Ultimately, however, Frailty tries to be a little too clever for its own good (there's an overcooked finale even M. Night Shyamalan would balk at), and the narrative's reoccurring irregularities ensures it's not much more than an interesting diversion. Decent but wait for the video.