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Subject: Flaws
Date: Jun 24, 2008
It's not great/it's not terrible. I praise it for giving Caruso a role that fit him for a change, and for trying to blend The Shining with The Blair Witch Project.
But it could have been twenty minutes shorter. And it was plagued by red herrings. First of all, people are right to complain that the taped interviews were given too much weight (and time!) --even though they set up much of the ominous tone of the place.
It took a long, long time for the parallel between Mary Hobbes and Gordy to be established, and we viewers made that connection in about twenty seconds, once Gordy's crime was revealed. So that was the almost-red-herring that bugged me through most of the film. But there were others. Most annoying is the scene (and aftermath) when Caruso's Phil is talking to the two young men in the parking lot. What the hell was that all about?
Later, when confronted, Phil gets all twisted; then later, he makes up some half-assed story. Sure, they want to set up Phil as the probable murderer (carrying that box-cutter in the final scenes--another strange red herring) but to have Gordy's insistence on getting to the bottom of the youth's appearance carry such weight is just plain dishonest setting us up, and bad screenwriting, and it all should have been edited out.
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