This movie looks stupid?Has anyone seen it?

It was not a good movie, I watched the entire film... boring and *beep* end. Won't watch this again, never. :P

This review is spot on, the film is really nonsensical... None of the characters have any motivation to behave as they do, and the ending can't be understood.

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I could say i agree with you, I did like the acting...some of it actually...but the ending is either a cliché, Kilmer was insane and made the whole thing up, or they were making some kind of experiment with telepathy, another possiblity is that Kilmer was the one outside the room that shot the nails on the chick's head and he is telling the cop something that has already happened, but if this is the case, why the desperation to get his story on the newspaper?...

I DON`T KNOW....i guess the movie tried to leave an open ending but sucked at doing it...the only good thing in the movie were the performances of Kilmer and Eric Roberts

Obviously not this one :P

Actually everything made sense to me. They disclosed The Grand had a steam room and that it was destroyed 3 months ago, everything turned to condos. They disclosed that this was a past event and was not in fact occuring in real time. The cop put this together a bit over half way through the movie. Val's character knew the timing because he was involved. Yes, he was the one outside with the nail gun. The psych doc and his wife were in on it and knew what was going to happen (roughly) in so much that they give a strong impression, at the end, that Val's character, a former published professor on chaos and global warming, but never taken seriously, was in fact brilliant, and the doc & wife knew that. The three formed a unit where Val worked up experiments, and doc & wife helped carry them out.

He even worked at the Grand 6 months prior to it's closing to establish his employment and set the game up, knowing he'd have the hotel and steam room that very last night.

Things went to hell when Val wanted his work to be recognized, once again, to be proved legitimate, to show the world what he knew, and what he proved through that experiment. That is when the doc commented that him going to the paper wasn't part of their deal. What gives away that they've been playing these games with people off of Val's brilliant mind was when the wife says, "you're no longer controling him,-he's controling you. Kill him." This is a pretty strong indicator they've done stuff like this before but SHE felt this came too close to exposing them.

I don't see how it left too much open at the end. It seemed pretty cut and dry. There's a fine line between brilliance and insanity, and a genius can dip their toes into either side of that line, by choice or action.

I also think Val played his character brilliantly, they all did. As for the girl taking her top off for no reason, I disagree. That was not gratuitous. She was the rebel, outcast, strong alpha female, confident and take charge type. She wasn't the "strongest" (ie: survivor) not because she isn't of strong character, but through incident. The wife only made it because her and Christopher "knew" what was going on and could act accordingly.

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