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I 'NEEDED' Closure

posted 15 years ago by kcsnowhite7
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The acress who plays Jane is OMG, OUTSTANDING ~! Assante is, Assante. He's rather attractive for a man his age and he apparently knows it. Cinematically, I really liked the black & white with a splash of ONE COLOR ONLY flashbacks ~ NICE TOUCH ~!**props**

After getting through this flic to the end, I really felt like I needed closure. There were so many loose ends and since it wasn't a LONG, DRAWN-OUT, BORING flic it wouldn't have killed 'em to add another 15 min. - It...Just...Ended. Closure and tying up the myriad of loose ends would have made this an EXCELLENT "Psychological Thriller" (that's the Genre I would put it in). As it stands, it was just GOOD.

[–] browha 15 years ago

It wasnt good by any measure.

The twist ending was very predictable for typical films like this, yet it very poorly explained the connection.

The delve into the realm of spiritual sci-fi was poorly executed, and just the sheer number of loose ends dont help in the slightest.

For example, location descrepencies are a problem - where did his wife disappear exactly?

Etc, etc.

Anyway

Disappointed at my loss of 90 minutes. Particularly with the cheesey ending.. "The man who studied the monster ended up becoming the monster"

Wtf

People actually get paid to write that stuff man... They should get proper jobs

[–] blitzmut 15 years ago

SPOILER ALERT:

I actually found myself really liking the film until the last 10 minutes or so. It sounds like the writer couldn't think up a clever enough explanation for the killings so he just pulled out the stock psych thriller ending a la Hide and Seek or Thr3e and a few other forgettable titles. But it just didn't work at all here. Obvious loose ends like how come no one recognized him when he came back to the area - it was a small town obviously - and he just HAPPENED to be involved in the team that diagnosed the girl when she was on trial for setting a house on fire that just HAPPENED to be on the same property as his murder-mine - but of course, the owners didn't recognize him at all...and did they ever actually even say how the fire was started? if the chicks knew it was armand the whole time, why the *beep* would they want to talk to him - maybe the japanese girl recognized him and was the only one that did - but she eventually kind of talked to him anyway? which brings me back to the fire - if the 3/4 girls were going for revenge on the house - but they knew it was armand??? wtf??? im so lost now this *beep* makes no sense....

anyway there's much more that was just stupid about the end. But i don't think you can dismiss this as a horrible movie. I was genuinely intrigued/entertained up until the very end. it's just a shame the writer lacked any kind of creativity with the ending - or since this was a tv production - it could be that some idiot tv exec or retarded producer somehow thought that the whole "it was me all along" thing would appeal to a greater audience - instead of actually putting some thought into tying up the loose ends.
and of course then there's the notion that he suffered from the same syndrome/disease that he was an expert in. but they go to great lengths of stating that one has to endure some sort of abuse before the 2nd personality develops and aside from maybe being hen-pecked by his wife i don't know that we were ever shown any evidence of any abuse suffered on his behalf.

ok i'm done... bad bad writing at the end - like i said though, it was thrilling for most of the ride, the girl that played jane was amazing, and armand was cool and mysterious without being too intense, as usual.