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Good start, but then it gets ruined

Absolutely Brilliant!

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

This could be one of the worst movies I have ever seen, and one of the biggest wastes of time. There are no names given to any of the characters other than one, whom you don't meet until the last 25 minutes. Throughout the movie, the plot is very repetitive: man wakes up groggy, goes downstairs where he shouldn't, wife tells him to rest, he is punished. The story line could not be more predictable. Along with tragic cinematography, the lighting never changes and there is rarely focus on anything. Overall this movie made me want to be the amnesiac.

I was originally drawn to this film because the trailer was reminiscent of Steven King's "Misery, unfortunately, the trailer is the best thing about the film. This movie is so slow, and possibly feels even slower, because of the nonstop piano music that is used to drive the nonexistent tension. I have always wanted to watch a slasher film where the serial killer is a female, but Kate Bosworth completely missed the mark. Her clean and polished look, combined with her random "Snapple facts" are absolutely ridiculous. I painstakingly watched the rest of the movie hoping that the story would eventually bring some clarity, but the resolution is just as forgettable as the previous hour and a half.

So, I didn't mind the slow pacing of the movie or the acting as I thought that it all worked together to create a sufficiently creepy atmosphere ... I just really didn't understand the plot. If the man and the woman were working together all along then why on earth was the body of her 'previous husband' packed away in the cupboard in the basement? You can't just throw that in there as a red herring to make the audience believe that, ooooooh, the woman is psychotic and has kidnapped men like this before, without explaining away the body when it turns out that the current 'kidnapped man' has been there by choice all along. If she isn't kidnapping man after man in her attempts to get a child then why on earth was there a body in the cupboard before they even kidnapped the girl?

Someone tell what the hell was Kate Bosworth thinking when she took such a role. First let me just say that, the movie was just awful. Kate and Wes are not great actors and to put them together was only a recipe for disaster. The story could have been told a whole lot better if number one, it had a better story premise of kidnapping and two, if the characters were more believable. Bosworth did her best in trying to convince the audience of being some detached and cruel woman who's bitterness and hate was kept behind a phony smile and loving way to Wes who was her husband. But in the end neither character brought enough convincing to their roles leaving me very upset that I burnt more than an hour of my life, watching one of the worst movies ever. Do yourself a favor watch the trailer, and then go watch something else, because this was just awful.