An average movie

To be honest, since this movie has a rather lame reputation, I had some rather low expectations but since there was a really nice cast involved, I still wanted to check it out. Well, to my surprise, the beginning scenes were actually not bad at all. Indeed, Stephen Gaghan had started with a compelling view on college life with some believeable characters and the mood was also pretty neat.  Unfortunately, the whole thing never really took off and for at least one hour, nothing much really happened. Seriously, it has been a while since I have seen a movie going absolutely nowhere like this one. Basically, it was one of these thrillers focusing way too much on the mood instead of providing some substance. Then, at last, during the final act, this mystery was finally expained but it was just so predictable and it felt therefore completely anticlimactic. To make things worse, I thought that Katie Holmes and Benjamin Bratt both gave some wooden performances. I mean, sure, they were both attractive but neither of them was convincing playing some supposedly broken souls and it was rather lame that they would fall for each other. Anyway, to conclude, even if it turned out to be actually slightly better than I expected, it was still rather weak and I don't think it is really worth a look. 

5/10