An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since there was a decent cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, first of all, even though the title did sound pretty cool, even after watching the damned thing, I still have no idea what it actually meant. Anyway, the beginning was really promising and, if this movie would have been properly developed, it could have turned out to be a pretty neat Hitchcockian thriller. I'm not surprised that it was adapted from a book from Patricia Highsmith since Rydal keept reminding me of Tom Ripley. Unfortunately, the whole thing fell apart rather quickly, I’m afraid. Indeed, from the moment the 3 characters ran off together, except for MacFarland killing his wife by accident, nothing really noteworthy happened to them afterwards. To make things worse, none of them really evolved through this ordeal. As a result, even though Kirsten Dunst looked really lovely, she was stuck playing a thankless role as her character didn’t have any impact on the story. Oscar Isaac’s character was even more problematic though. Indeed, it seemed that the makers didn’t know what to do with this guy so, instead of further developing him and explaining what could be his game plan, he remained terribly murky from the beginning until the very end. Eventually, Viggo Mortensen was the only one who managed to be completely convincing but he also had the advantage that this character was the only who was at least rather well defined. Anyway, to conclude, even though this movie had some potential, the story really went nowhere but I guess it might still be worth a look if you like the genre.