Hard movie to like (spoilers)

There are no likable characters in this one including, nay especially, the kid. The support group characters are poorly drawn. The lead is a self-involved idiot who needs to get over himself and this supposedly earth-shattering wrong he's done of cheating on his wife. Sure marital infidelity is bad, but is it this bad? Enough to warrant this sort of hallucinatory (post-death?) madness as you deal with the guilt? Gimme a break.

We get a manufactured Sixth Sense-style ending and are we supposed to feel some sort of emotional cartharsis when this self-indulgent twit ends up dead while trying to apologize to his wife for cheating on her? That his last words are to say he's sorry for cheating on her gives the actual cheating a disproportionate importance. I mean, you're at death's door at the side of the road, why focus on the negative in your last words to wife and child? It's not like his missus would say, "John, I know you're about to die, but you did a really crummy thing back there -- just remember that."

Also, the scene when his little bright-eyed daughter walks in on him and some strange woman rings false, not a natural bit of acting to it. They look like they were waiting for someone to bust in and find them. And after that awkward scene, a more realistic scenario in Canada would have seen this guy go back in the house -- cold country to be walking around shirtless -- and then working the phones, getting some sleep, tomorrow is another bloody day.

We're given very little to like about any of the characters in this one. Had the protagonist been a more interesting character and less of a weenie, we might have been able to identify with him -- a "guy you love to hate" sort of character. He could have been a womanizing cad who is fun to watch, but the movie goes the route of heavy handed moralizing. It's no fun.

Ah, I wanted to like this one. Better luck next time for the young director who made it.