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Summary: !!!
Review: Simply Horrible.
If you need an explnation see the movie.
If you don't agree, you deserve this tripe of a film.
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Summary: wow, crazy stuff
Review: The movie seems better after it is finished and one can marvel at the clever "inside" jokes. When first seen, however, much of the middle of the movie is ordinary horror film convention, with vague clues as to the reality of it all, only making sense when we see the ending.Definitely a must for your action section in your dvd collection. The actual ending will knock you out---it hits hard and fast in one big time sequence.
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Summary: Waste of time!
Review: This film had a lot of hype going for it. So when I actually saw the film I was very dissapointed. Now it'snot as bad as all that, but it's just another hollwood piece of tripe, thrown together very quickly in order to make an extra buck.
John Cusack is excellent in it, which is very surprising since he had to get his tongue twisted around an awful script.
Never the less, I did enjoy it for a while, but the end was simply crap. It was one of those annoying endings that could be the ending to any film ever made. Which is very annoying because it just felt like whoever wrote couldn't think of an ending so he just pulled this one out.
Rubbish ending. Not particurlarly engaging. If you want to see a really good film, that's set in a motel on the road, then just watch Psycho.
Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho that is, not that crap re-make.
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Summary: Perfectly Psychologically Thrilling
Review: This film is one of the best in psychological thrillers. It keeps you guessing and re-guessing as the plot moves on and the dead bodies start disappearing. John Cusack is at his brooding best paired with Ray Liotta. This is a movie that could have easily been over-acted, but the cast carries the story line well. There's limited gore and guts but just the right amount of suspense to keep you glued to the the movie. Don't miss out on this one, you'll be glad you spent your time and money on it.
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Summary: Red Herrings and Shower Curtains
Review: This is a slasher flick with a star studded cast. From the beginning it attempts to outsmart the viewer, in a whodunnit that would send Dame Agatha to her smelling salts bottle, and Sybil into multiple fits of laughter.
From Rebecca De Mornay (Caroline) doing an updated Psycho scene, shower curtain and all, to the borrowed thrills of Halloween and Friday the 13th, this dark movie keeps you guessing until each twist is revealed, but the BIG TWIST is a no-brainer even if you're not a fan of the genre.
John Cusack (Ed) takes some getting used to in this type of role, but he makes the stretch nicely. Amanda Peet (Paris) also displays her versatility, even though her character pushes the believability meter to the limit. John Hawkes (Larry) works his inner Anthony Perkins, but ends up more like Tommy Lee, except he doesn't care much for hookers.
Type-cast actors are Ray Liotta (Rhodes) and Jake Busey (Maine), who's probably patented that angry toothy snarl of his. Clea DuVall (Ginny) and William Lee Scott (Lou) play dysfunction to the hilt.
There are certain parts of the plot that are imaginative and clever, but these are overshadowed by an intentionally confusing story line. This is not your simple slasher, but an greatly embellished slasher, leading the average viewer like me to a "Huh?" conclusion, not from the untwisty twist but from the events leading up to it.
Amanda Richards, November 28, 2004
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Summary: Da Bomb!!!
Review: This movie is da bomb!!! :D It's a suspense movie that kept me at the edge of my seat. Really good! 1 of my favorites! It's about around 10 strangers checking in a hotel because of a storm that kept them trapped. Everything was going okay...until...1 by 1 dies. The survivors must find out who's the killer before it's too late!
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Summary: Disturbing
Review: This movie requires our brain to be fully alert as it is NOT of those slasher flicks like "Friday 13" or "Freddy" where even a drunkard can enjoy without actually thinking.
The director has done a terrific job especially in the way he introduces the characters which gives us a hint about Schizophrenia on the prowl.He,the director,does not seem to attach much importance to the elements of gore,blood and suspense in the way the victims are being killed.All the killings are done by a schizophrenic individual and the killings are like to an outside individual, as if they are performed under the depths of sea..Am i confusing ?.
Anyway this movie is a treat to those who want to see a good movie not neccassarily a horror movie..
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Summary: warner - has spoilers
Review: this review is in response to:
UTTER NONSENSE, April 8, 2004
Reviewer: A viewer from poplarville, ms United States "This movie is confusing, unbelievable and trite."
yes, the movie is confusing...but confusing in the "fight club" way...in "the matrix" way...in "the sixth sense" way...even in the "alice in wonderland" way. it's the kind of movie that's confusing until the end, but then makes perfect sense if you've been paying attention...the kind of movie that has to be watched at least twice - the first time you watch it, you watch it to understand the movie and get the premise and the second time you watch it, you watch it with your new knowledge (new knowledge such as who tyler durden really is, what the matrix is, what the sixth sense is, why alice saw the things that she did) to pick up on the details we couldn't see before. "The first 100 minutes of the film you can skip. It transpires that all the mayhem, and blood-letting, unconvincing, at the hotel really didnt happen!"
after finding out that all these "strangers" are just different personalities of the psychotic killer, "all the mayhem and blood-letting" takes on a whole new meaning. we see how every "murder" gets rid of one of his personalities. we understand why it's so important to kill the killer - if the killer wins, that personality will dominate malcolm rivers and he will remain a murderer. "It was all imagined by this chap about to be executed for multiple murders."
"imagine" is such a bad word to use for what goes through malcolm rivers' head -he has several different personalities and they are forced to "meet" each other (in his mind) when his psychiatrist gives him a certain treatment. "He convinces those taking him o the xecution area, as well as the legal and psychiatric authorities, that he is no longer a danger since now he oly imagines bad things."
this is incorrect - they don't consider him a danger anymore because they believed that the killer personality was killed by another personality, edward. "Maybe he didnt take his medication that day, but on the way to the prison for the criminally insane he murders everyone in the car, and shortly thereafterwards sends one of his manifest identities, a young boy, to strangle an attractive girl her Florida garden. Apparently, the screenweriter was not satisfied with imaginary characters buried in the synopses of the psychotic killer, but with a Stephen King-like enthusiasm, made it possible for the killer to created these personalities in flesh and blood. I don't think this is clininically possible, and I have poured over the DSM -I-IV, of the AMA.If there were such an entity, it would certainly be a challenge to treat."
this is the biggest mistake in this review - the young boy and former escort don't come to life in "flesh and blood"...all this happens in the killer's mind - another twist to the ending. everyone thought that the child timothy died in the car explosion and that the former escort was the only survivor, but this is not the case. as we watch the woman in her orange grove in florida (in malcolm rivers mind), it seems as though everything is fine now, but timothy comes back and reveals himself as the true killer. he kills the woman and now he is the only personality inside of malcolm's head. because of that internal battle, malcolm reverts back to killer mode and murders his psychiatrist and the driver. "Since all that happened at the hotel was imaginary, I don't feel that I should have to describe that action."
why not? the hotel was the battlefield in his mind. we see the personalities struggling to survive and this is one of the most heart wrenching parts to watch. the viewer doesn't want the different personalities to die (well...some of them) because we've gotten to know them...BUT we want malcolm to mentally triumph and become just one person, so we're torn. "I will say this, altough I'm sure such a nuance point was not in the mind of the director or screenwriter, he lack of plot, craziness, inconsistencies, symbol objects such as a key,the curious amount of rain in Nevada, killings, does point to the imaginary ramblings of psychotic killer."
of course it was in their mind. that was the whole point - all of those little things tells you something is not quite right with the scenario. everyone's birthday is on may 10th, everyone's last name is a state name...the viewer is thrown off and believes that some preternatural powers, possibly from the indian burial ground, brought all those ppl together for some purpose. when we find out that those ppl are actually the same person, the viewer has the epiphany, "ahhh...now it all makes sense." with all that said, i highly recommend the movie. it takes you inside the mind of a schizophrenic killer in the most interesting way...while it doesn't excuse his actions, it evokes feelings of sympathy and pity from the viewer because we see that this man wasn't truly a bad man (we see this especially with the personality edward)...his schizophrenia was caused by something out of his control. while the movie wasn't hugely successful (i think, in part, because it was marketed wrong), it's meant to be a cult classic like fight club or the professional.
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Summary: Excellent movie
Review: This was excellent. Two good twists near the end. I bought it because of the good reviews on this page, and you guys didn't let me down! Thanks! Will keep it and watch it again.
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Summary: Wow
Review: Truly this is what I call a nice movie. It kept me in suspense from the first minute to the last. For some reasons I didn't want it to end. It had a couple of shadows from the famous Hitchcocks "Psycho" but that only made this movie better.
Anyways, in one small area so many killings happen within a short time and in all of them John Cusack is somehow involved but at the same time he's the only one who is passionately trying to find a mysterious serial killer. But that's difficult. Not even you as the audience can not help him find the killer. When I watched this movie for the first time - we were about 6 people in the dark room. We've all been silent and totally concentrated on the movie. We've all labeled individually a couple of great actors/actresses as potential killers. None of them turned up to be a killer in the end - a fact which left us astounded.
So please Watch this movie - and see it for yourself who's this mysterious killer. Highly Recommended
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