What's the point of trying to figure out a whodunit movie if the movie doesn't play fair, not just by withholding crucial information, but by contradicting and faking almost every scene throughout, jerking the audience around just because, well, it can?
This movie calls itself a "psychological thriller" but the only psychological thing about it is the sheer underestimation of audience's intelligence, and pretty much all the thrills are fake. Take the infamous "frozen picture" scene for example: somehow an incriminating picture gets "frozen" on Hale Berry's computer screen while "supposed antagonist no 1" Bruce Willis approaches her. She tries in vein to turn off the power supply with her foot for about a minute, and I guess we should all be at the edge of our seat, biting nails, pulling hair and whatnot. Now, even if we forget the fact that every monitor usually has a rather convenient on/off button, the scene doesn't even make sense after we learn, well, whatever is the thing we learn afterwards. And you can apply similar logic to almost every scene right until the ending credits.
And the ending, oh boy, the ending. I wasn't this disappointed (or insulted) by a movie's resolution since "The Forgotten". And hell, even aliens or "it was all a dream" would be easier the swallow than this utter stupidity.
The whole story is just an overlong setup for a bad punchline. And the joke, I'm sad to say, is on us.
This movie calls itself a "psychological thriller" but the only psychological thing about it is the sheer underestimation of audience's intelligence, and pretty much all the thrills are fake. Take the infamous "frozen picture" scene for example: somehow an incriminating picture gets "frozen" on Hale Berry's computer screen while "supposed antagonist no 1" Bruce Willis approaches her. She tries in vein to turn off the power supply with her foot for about a minute, and I guess we should all be at the edge of our seat, biting nails, pulling hair and whatnot. Now, even if we forget the fact that every monitor usually has a rather convenient on/off button, the scene doesn't even make sense after we learn, well, whatever is the thing we learn afterwards. And you can apply similar logic to almost every scene right until the ending credits.
And the ending, oh boy, the ending. I wasn't this disappointed (or insulted) by a movie's resolution since "The Forgotten". And hell, even aliens or "it was all a dream" would be easier the swallow than this utter stupidity.
The whole story is just an overlong setup for a bad punchline. And the joke, I'm sad to say, is on us.