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They made it too obvious who the killer was...


You knew from the first few minutes who the killer was. That took away nearly all of the suspense. They should have at least kept it a little more of a secret...would have made the movie better IMO.

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I totally agree, I knew from the start of the film when he was with his wife in the bathtub who it was and it did take away from the suspense. I would have liked to have been shocked by it

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Do people even pay attention anymore?
That wasn't his wife in the bathtub, it was the latest girl he killed - the one we see being drugged, tortured and raped. We see the same exact bathtub scene again later in the film.
He killed his wife several years before and it's never shown, we only hear it briefly.

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I never saw any suspense at all, so much that I assumed I had taken it as what it was not (a suspense) when it actually was a kind of (boring) thriller about two people trapped with a psychopath killer in an elevator.

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Yes, they should have just said so from the start. We all knew anyway.


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It was stupid for them to try to make the killer's identity a mystery when it was so obvious who it was. Gillen looks so sinister anyway, he's the first one you'd suspect. Even when he was on Queer as Folk, people said he looked creepy.

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Err, I don't think the filmakers wanted to hide that he was a killer at all.
It was so obvious right from the first scene, so it's pretty clear to me that they wanted the viewer to instantly know who he actually was, and keep only the characters obscure.
Otherwise, what would be the point of showing him next to a dead body in a bathtub?
To my point of view, he was the main character of the film. The other two just stumbled upon him and got *beep* .

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