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Dave Macaulay
Film God

Posts: 2321
From: Toronto, Canada
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 04-21-2007 09:10 PM

Nicely photographed hokum. Plot holes to fit several battleships side by side. Much of the budget seems to be in the title sequences.
A battling bickersons couple in a car, hubby takes a late night deserted road "short cut" and has the requisite car problems. They lurch to a stop near a seedy motel. Said motel is actually a snuff movie factory. Much suspense movie cliche nonsense ensues. Bad guys lose, wife realizes hubby is good guy after all.
I don't see this being a blockbuster, but I hate to overestimate public taste.

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Mark Strube
Master Film Handler

Posts: 322
From: Milwaukee, WI, United States
Registered: Feb 2007

posted 04-22-2007 12:01 AM

Entertaining enough, the scenes in the hotel room are pretty effective... but nothing to write home about. I will note it's important to have the volume on this movie high, since it relies heavily on jump scenes. The place I went to see it had it just a tad low to be fully effective, although just about anything works on the teenies.

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Richard Greco
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1180
From: Plant City, FL
Registered: Nov 2003

posted 04-22-2007 09:21 AM

Greco factor with Beckinsale?

Dave, you should put spoiler tags in your post...I don't want to know what happens to the bad guys...some movies have the bad guy prevailing

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Chad M Calpito
Master Film Handler

Posts: 435
From: San Diego, CA
Registered: Apr 2006

posted 04-27-2007 11:35 PM

I thought the movie was pretty good. It certainly kept me interested in it enough. The action sequences were especially good. The only thing I didn't like was how the ending just abruptly ended and led right into the credits. The sound was great, as it should be since it was played in Dolby Digital.

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