Sigh

Rating: 3/10 (2 May 2012)

I will never understand why people continue to buy into tripe like this, as we get our 1347th haunted house/hotel/room whatever story, all with the same flaws. I gave this 3 stars because I thought the buildup was pretty effective. In fact until Cusack actually enters the room I was settling in and hoping for the best. But instead of the best, we get almost a one man Cusack stage show that plays out more like an overwrought descent into insanity than it does a ghost story. And then, like all of this breed of story, the wheels come completely off, there are no rules, the main character reacts stupidly to everything, and you spend 45 minutes lost as Cusack runs around his one room breaking things and yelling, and occasionally big special effects that may or may not be in his head come crashing through. It gets tedious quickly. When a character does not know what is real or not, that is fine. When the audience doesn't it just encourages you to detach and sit back chomping popcorn waiting to see if any of the nonsensical special effects you are watching are real, or if its all just a dream. And really, by the end of this one you don't care.