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 and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, I was actually amazed by how lame the damned thing turned out to be after all. I mean, I do have a weak spot for minimalistic features taking place in one location with just 2-3 characters but, in this case, it barely worked at all. Topher Grace was actually a decent choice to play the main character and he was actually not bad but the whole idea of locking up a fragile mental patient on his own for 30 days in the house where his father did commit suicide and then release him was just ridiculous. But beyond the weakness of the concept, it was also so poorly developed. For example, I do have a weak spot for Genesis Rodriguez, I think she is really lovely, but she must have been the least convincing supermarket deliverer I have ever seen. And of course, the main character had to hook up with her but even his parole officer fell for his charms so he managed to score with the only 2 female characters involved in this movie. Not bad for a severe basket case and, for a guy who  spent the previous 20 years in a mental institution, he had some incredible seducing game apparently. However, it became even more ridiculous as even his psycho brother managed to escape from prison and came to visit him because, apparently, their dead father had a secret stash of money somewhere in their childhood house. The whole idea was that the main character suffered from hallucinations so the viewer could never be sure if any of this was real or not (even the guy himself was constantly doubting himself) but it was so poorly handled after all (Basically, anybody who wasn’t dead before the movie started was actually 100% real). Of course, there was some twist at the end, I won’t spoil it, but let’s say it was pretty lame and underwhelming, just like the rest of this movie. Anyway, to conclude, I was actually rather generous with my rating here and you should probably avoid the damned thing.