Another Hollywood crapfest

What a relief it was to see it only currently gets a 5.6 rating on IMDB. I borrowed this movie (free) from my local library to watch on a Friday night. After 20 minutes, I was already bored. At 39 minutes, I contemplated just turning it off. I decided to ENDURE THE AGONY of what may be one of the worst films made in modern history. What a waste of both film and time!

I'd love to have the patience and interest to break down this movie scene by scene and describe why it sucks so much, but I don't.

Charlie? "Charlie...that's an interesting name." (says Catherine to Emily during the "observational" scene) It is? I could think of a lot of names much more interesting than Charlie.

Cue in the attractive local woman (who naturally ends up dead) who goes around town during winter with her breasts busting out of her shirt and an unbuttoned coat.

Apparently during winter in upstate NY it's sunny and mild every day.

I would be hard pressed to find just one sentence - even one conversation - in the script that was not a tired cliche that I've heard in endless other Hollywood movies.

The young girl in the movie looked to be around 10-11 years old. Why was she spoken to like a baby by everybody, including her own father? No wonder she was so surly. What 10 year old is "adorable"? Not to mention, she looked like crap throughout the film - puffy pale skin, robotic stares. I'd bet a full 15 minutes of the run length of the film is closeup shots of the girl's face with her buggy eyes and stoic expression. YAWN.

And let's not forget the ubiquitous wealth and leisure of movie characters, where they can simply move from their current home into a MANSION in a small town, with no need or prospect for work or income whatsoever. Why would 2 people move into a monstrosity of a house that looked like it could house 25 people? And by their first night after moving into a new house it was completely furnished and ready to live in?

There was absolutely no point in including the neighbors whatsoever. Cue the friendly male neighbor seen speaking to Emily. Red flag! Red flag! "What did I tell you about talking to strangers!" Who the F wrote this script?! Because I feel like they wrote it to appeal to retards.

I give this movie a ZERO. DeNiro must be ashamed - what a stretch from the rogue brilliance of Travis Bickle. I'm putting it in my worst movies list.