An average movie

To be honest, I wonder how I actually ended up watching the damned thing. Anyway, I always had a weak spot for ‘Groundhog Day’ and it was actually fairly entertaining to see another movie recycling the very same formula. In this case, what they did was to switch the main character with a hot college girl and instead of the comedy genre, they went for a horror-comedy, which was all rather promising. On top of that, Jessica Rothe, an actress I had never noticed before, was really charismatic. However, it was the first issue they made, to still make it a comedy, and maybe it would have worked better as a full-on horror flick since ‘Groundhog Day’ already brilliantly covered most of the humour regarding this story. Another issue was that the whole serial killer angle seriously limited the whole thing and it did create some major plot-holes. I mean, why didn’t she lock herself up in Carter’s room and wait there until the end of the day? In fact, she actually did something similar, she did barricade herself in her room but, somehow, the killer still miraculously managed to get in. In my opinion, it would have been more fun if she kept getting killed completely randomly every single day. Finally, what made ‘Groundhog Day’ so great, beside the fact that it was really entertaining, was the fact that even though nothing was explained, you still understood more or less why the character kept coming back. In this movie, it was however much murkier though. Anyway, to conclude, even though it was nothing really original, I have to admit that it was still a decent watch and it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.