Pretty Good

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

I watched this movie and I wish I hadn't. That's one of the best things that could be said about this poor excuse for cinema. It's just so poorly done in almost every regard, that describing it still wouldn't do justice to how spectacularly it fails.The poor excuse for a story was neither clever nor unique, and it made zero attempts are carving a new niche in the genre. It's Misery if it were written by the lady who wrote 50 Shades of Gray. It is just a wannabe of a much better film, with a horrible script and poor acting.The actors are nice to look at (for the most part), but the casting was done solely as a superficial attempt to mask the inadequacies of everyone else involved. Putting pretty people in your lead only serves to highlight all of the other garbage hiding beneath the surface.The movie tries so hard to be a mystery, a thriller, a horror movie, but it failed at every one. How could you fail so spectacularly when you have 3 distinct genres to choose from? There was no blood, no sex, no gore, and I counted one use of the F-bomb, but other than that, the movie was neither suspenseful of thrilling. I have seen more horrific events happen on television.I just don't see whom this film was made for. It's too tame for horror fans, too sophomoric for mystery fans, and way to slow for fans of the thriller genre. So what were they thinking? They could have made this movie a bit more palatable if they didn't treat the audience like a bunch of sensitive babies. These days, it takes a lot to stand out in the horror genre. This movie will be forgotten, deservedly so, but it didn't have to be. It had everything going for it, and just decided to not make use of any of it. This was a phoned in effort, through and through, and I just wouldn't recommend it to anyone, regardless of how bored you may be.A shame and a disappointment.

Dear IMDb user. Please do yourself a huge favor and do not watch this movie. It is 2 hours of your life you will never get back. It is the worst movie in the history of movies. Terrible acting, horrible content and horrifically slow. I usually do not write movie reviews but this movie was just so awful I just had to share my experience and vent. If you enjoy being annoyed by bad acting and an extremely slow moving film, then this is the movie for you. You will enjoy the many identical and frustrating scenes in this movie, and what drove myself insane might very well be of extreme entertainment to you. You have been warned.

I'd have to say that most reviews here are spot on (as ever) apart from the obvious 'shill' (who even kindly reminds us it's on Amazon!) The film struggles throughout. Struggles for pace, coherence, atmosphere and most of all any scrape of originality. Even Nicole Kidman clone Kate Bosworth again shows she can't act for toffee as do the rest of the cast with alarming consistency. The film yearns to be Misery or any decent film of the Psycho Stalker genre but falls so far short it is funny. Bosworth's inaudible mutterings attempt to give a semblance of coherence to the dreadfully thin plot, the only convincing performance was the one from the cat who, in fairness delivered his 'miaows' with sublime skill and is the highlight of this dreary, poorly produced mumblefest.

This film had me intrigued throughout the whole thing. Here we have our dread villain, Kate Bosworth, as the 'Woman' (who had a great performance) who does these atrocious actions against the protagonist. All the while you are witnessing the most INEPT of all detectives/police. Throughout the whole film I had a feeling it was coming. I knew she was going to get away. I decided this the moment they had dinner. So the Woman goes Kathy Bates, Misery-like, and inflicts her brutality on her husband for the audience. The whole film. I get it. She is crazy and he is the victim.Then it all comes full circle. So the Woman wants to have children. She is crazy. Our tormented protagonist frees himself, saves a girl caged up (who freed herself and is now in a bathtub) from drowning by the Woman and knocks her out.Here is what gets me. When the twist comes I just kept saying 'no no that is not what they are doing.' Yup, that's exactly what they did. See, of course, both of them were in on the whole kidnapping bit. Idiot male protagonist goes along with said crazy wife to kidnap a girl, for money for her treatments, to help her have a child. Husband decides that he doesn't want to do this (um, too late) and they get into the car wreck that was established at the beginning of the film. So they are both wrong, quite obviously.Then here comes the worst bit. Idiot detective pins all of this on the husband. Considering it is obvious he was drugged and beaten. Wife, as we know, killed an innocent mailman and a police officer and, of course, she is nowhere to be found. Epilogue closes with crazy wife being the husband's nurse at the hospital (zero sense). Wife gets away free so she can continue her torture spree.What really gets me is that this whole film had this woman dominance thing going. It was like it was gratifying to constantly watch a man being gagged and tortured at the Woman's whim. The film was saying, 'Ya, this is okay for a woman to do this to a man. A man is getting tortured. There must be some reason why because men are horrible and do all of the worst crimes imaginable. OH, it looks like he was just an accomplice.' (Still an accessory, of course).