Hopelessly illogical

Rating: 3/10 (25 June 2007)

This movie defies any common sense or logic. The special effects that are supposed to create suspense and horror are hopelessly illogical and follow no particular pattern. Some are mechanical things like the temperature control. Some are the ghosts of past occupants who came to bad ends. There is an endless number of crashes and darkness. The room is on a floor of a dignified hotel with many other rooms on the same floor...are we supposed to think the occupants of other rooms don't notice the screams or the loud noises? No effect on the rooms on the other sides of the walls of Room 1408? No people gathering in the hallway wondering what is happening? Why does Enslin's daughter appear in the room when she was never an occupant? A group of wreckers comes to the room and demolishes it...what was that all about? Worst of all, the room is not developed as an evil character, as was done in the Shining...it is just special effects. The movie was far too long and there were too many twists and turns, again having nothing to do with character development or logic. A really boring and bad movie for the thinking moviegoer.