An average movie

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick, but since I have a weak spot for Micheal Douglas, I thought I should give it a try anyway. At first, it seemed to be a rather promising thriller. I mean, you had a pretty good cast (Michael Douglas, Brittany Murphy, Sean Bean, Jennifer Esposito, Famke Janssen, Oliver Platt), the mood was pretty good and a thriller taking place in a psychiatric hospital always has something intriguing in my opinion. Unfortunately, this movie didn’t hold up to those good promises and pretty quickly became just another average flick. Indeed, even though the late Brittany Murphy gave a decent performance, there was no real depth given to the whole psychological thing and it was quite difficult to take it seriously. And it was the same thing concerning Micheal Douglas. I mean, the guy gave his usual solid performance but it was just really unconvincing to see this child psychiatrist getting involved in all those action scenes. Above all, I thought the story was just truly disappointing. Indeed, basically, it is just a long succession of unbelievable twists and I stopped caring about the whole thing way before the ending approached. To conclude, even though there is a pretty cool cast, they are all wasted here, eventually, it is just a really average thriller and it is not really worth a look.

5/10