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So let me get this straight...*spoilers*


Actually, no, there is no getting this straight. But let me try to get at least some semblance of order from this.

1. So the tenants of the Dante were trapped doing this over and over for 902,000 or something reruns of the situation (if that's 1 per day that's 2471.2 years by the way) but at the end of the movie we find out that none of them freaking died! (except the 2 that is). How does that work? Her spirits guilty conscience keeps 7 other working doppelgangers going who all know what is going on but she doesn't? That makes sense /sarcasm.

2. For the last iteration of the rerun occurrence it skips all the way to the very end apparently changing nothing at all, even though everyone there knows exactly what's going on. And then, for no reason what-so-ever she changes her pattern and comes back to save him. Nothing was different, nothing had changed, she just...changed her mind I guess? This also makes sense /also sarcasm.

3. Evan let the fire start ~902,000 times instead of picking up the freaking pillow. Gah!

Post Script: The only way I can see that the tenants escaped is that this actually isn't Hell or Purgatory or even her deluded fantasy dreams, but actually a real time rerun of the events leading up to the fire that were repeated ad-nauseum in some kind of reverse Groundhog day event where everyone is in on the loop except the person stuck in the loop. Which means that they kept dying over and over because her fall from the window delayed the cops from saving the people on the roof and only when she went back and died did the cops save the people. But if this is true, what the hell happened to the bodies in the room? Which of course, still makes absolutely no sense.


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I just saw this movie for the first time. The above post really sums up how I feel about it. Too many plot holes. This could have been a really good movie if done right. But it wasn't.

What drove me crazy is how they created their own time loop. If the camera jerk hadn't electrocuted himself, the power wouldn't have gone out and she wouldn't have put the candle there to begin with.

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