a slow decline

this movie is not so much snails paced as it is the frozen corpse of a snail paced. honestly 14 minutes into the movie i was hoping it was done. its not that its really bad and its difficult to pinpoint why it drags so much. its probably due to the rather over-the-top almost theatrical characters and the rather mundane dialog they have. think william shatner reading the phone book for an hour...

it has to be over half way through the movie before the main character takes home a corpse of the woman he loved. from there it does get bizarre but its more sad than shocking. here's a man who so loved a woman he believes she's fine when we see her rotting away in his apartment. a few moments where he's almost caught provide a tiny bit of tension, but not much. its also in these moments though that are mistakes in the movie because its clear in some of them that he's aware people will know this woman is dead although we're suppose to believe he believes she's alive.

if you manage to make it through the majority of the movie, its not until the last 15 minutes that the corpse begins to "tell him" to kill her ex-boyfriend. which he eventually does in a nice and effective scene. then he proceeds to "lose it" in a scene which is the wildest and quickest paced of the movie; its a bit of a strip tease with a trassexual hooker. which he is "shocked" by and immediately kills.

i can't imagine most people sitting through this...i may have just been too tired to turn it off or morbidly curious about how this was going to last an hour and a half...let alone absolutely anyone watching it twice.

truly its not horrible just dull and very very slow.

3/10