I am deeply sorry for all those who went crazy about this overrated, weak, shallow, pretentious and pointless film. Why, why was it made, in the first place? For me, a Russian man, who was raised on deep philosophical novels of Tolstoy or Dostoyevski, or on deep films by Wajda or Kurosawa, this film is a very surface try. We do not really see any real background for the displeasure of the main hero. Why was he not on his place? Why did he leave his wife? It all is so naive and skeletal, that the whole film loses its sense and direction. Then, why all those nervous banters with the putanes and the pimps? Is the man that incredibly silly that he has no idea what to do and how to peep, or to pay or whatever? And all those cameos of Denise Richards, Mena Suvari and others are just hilariously senseless. The murder scene is also so unconvincing that I started to think that the film director played fools with us all. And the prison part of the film - all those endless, pointless, dull and sticky monologues... What is the point? Wheere is the basis for all this? I saw only a shallow semi-baked poorly made thriller of a very low rating. I am sorry. Maybe, I am much too smart and too demanding. But films should have some moral, after all. This one has one - it shouldn't be shot after all.
