Truly Dreadful Film

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

The surprise ending wasn't so much as a surprise as what happens when you say to your self through the whole movie, I bet BLANK is going to happen, over and over. And then poof BLANK happens. What was surprising about it was the subtle way they switched from her reality to the hallucinations, and then back to reality. Some movies make it really obvious that way there is no question about weather or not it is reality. Some of the delusions seem strange and disconnected to me. Bus explosion, there's on at the crash, makes sense. I'm still confused about the girlfriend giving Kurt AIDS. And the dog in the swimming pool. I wish Uncle Phil would have had a bigger part. And it was nice to see Regina Hill in a part where she got to sound intelligent.

OK, so I watched this movie once and did not really understand it (I am always great at understanding weird plot lines and symbolism in movies) The second time I watched it, which was tonight, I finally got it! Yes, obviously the entire movie is a fantasy in Danika's mind. She is probably schizophrenic or has multiple personality disorder or maybe she just went crazy and we don't know what is wrong with her, that is why she is manifesting another reality. She has created a whole reality for herself that is obviously not real. At first I was a bit confused as to whether she gets in the crash while her children are younger or older, like in the present, I thought maybe that was another twist they wanted to throw at you. But yea, it is definitely while they are young, after she finds her husband cheating, therefore the whole reality of her and her semi-normal, semi-happy family is pure delusion. It is simply how her mind copes with her illness and the obvious post traumatic stress from killing her children in the crash. This one really threw me at first, but once you understand it, I think it is pretty clever and original. You really feel for her when you see Danika in the last scene sitting on the bench watching the world go by and all the while playing this drama in her head. It makes you think how many people out there probably experience this same exact thing every day. All in all, a pretty decent movie, but definitely not recommended for those who want it simple and laid out. This takes some concentration and after thought. Enjoy :)

This movie has some depth so if your just into blood,guts, and mindless action and gore(which I love too) it may not be for you. This is a drama/Horror with a little more depth then your average horror..I have seen this movie a few times on cable and saw the screener before it came out. It took me 3 times to fully grasp everything that was going on with Danika. For those who think its only people involved in the production making good reviews, I feel sorry that you couldn't grasp this film. I have absolutely nothing to do with this film and I give it 8 stars.Marissa Tomei is still very Hot and a great actress who gave a stellar performance. Watching her come unglued emotionally on screen is very believable. She carries most of the film, but the rest of the performances are excellent too. An all around great film, good acting, cast, plot, etc for those who don't like spoon fed plots.

An addition to the growing litany of films that portray blissfully deluded unfulfilled suburban mothers whose subconscious erupts in a series of increasingly panic-filled paranoid episodes. Yet who is to blame for their ennui? No one besides themselves as within should be the strength to reject such traditional American life trajectories and live larger-scale, humanistically beneficial lives. Still the notion of the unfulfilled suburban woman is a goldmine that has led to several excellent films - Todd Haynes's "Safe," and Forster's "Everything Put Together." However, this little ditty lacks both the scares and the mood to create a lasting impression. Because the film concerns itself with genre thrills of violent and sexual hallucinations, the subject matter behind the gloss gets lost. Tomei is decent if a little unforceful in her role while Bierko's beefy masculinity is properly used if his role requires a sparse amount of screen time. Not a bad piece of work, and the final two minutes have haunting images and eerie psychological attentions that will retain in my memory, but neither emotionally or frightfully effective enough for a recommendation.