An average movie

Well, it has been a while since I have seen such a convoluted thriller... The best to do with this flick is to know as least as possible about it before watching the damned thing. Basically, there were 4 different parts. The first part was just an agonizing introduction of the characters. Indeed, the story centered on Hayden Christensen and his relationship with his hot girlfriend portrayed by Jessica Alba, his relationship with his annoying and castrating mother portrayed by Lena Olin, his relationship with his friendly doctor portrayed by Terrence Howard, his medical situation, his job and I almost forgot to mention, the guy was filthy rich! That was a lot of information and they kept throwing all this information at us in just about 20 minute and it was obviously a little bit too much to handle. Anyway, you had then the 2nd part which was the best one. Indeed, the main character got this vital surgery and instead of falling asleep as he should, he got into some ‘anesthetic awareness’ meaning that during the anesthesia, he was paralyzed but fully conscious during the procedure and, suddenly, the whole thing became quite fascinating. I mean, this whole concept of ‘anesthetic awareness’ was just very well directed and acted and it was really interesting to watch. However, instead of going further in this direction, and explore the physical and psychological implications of such a condition, they decided to throw some unbelievable twists... And that's when the 3^rd part came in... Indeed, out of nowhere, it turned out that the whole surgical team and his brand new wife were comploting against him to get his money! Seriously, it was just so lame and ridiculous… However, it was pretty obvious that even though they kept telling you that he was going to die, he was obviously going to survive because, you know, it is a Hollywood production after all and such movies are always quite predictable, I'm afraid. And then you had the 4th and final part with yet another major twist... In this hospital, who could provide a matching heart for our poor young fellow ? The mother, of course!!! I figured this out pretty easily but I was wondering how they would play this out and check this out... She swallowed some pills and, within 2 hours,  she managed to call another surgeon, to die, a complete new surgical team came onsite and managed to transplant her heart into her son's body. Seriously, it was quite impressive how ridiculous it was... In my opinion, the subject was actually really interesting and it could have resulted in a good movie but, unfortunately, they decided to make this a thriller and they kept throwing some unbeliveable twists during the whole thing. To conclude, if you like this kind of far-fetched thrillers, you may end up enjoying it more than I did but, in my opinion, it was pretty average and it is not really worth a look.