Entertaining but unsatisfying....the clichés of exploiting subjectivity

Rating: 5/10 (30 September 2007)

1408 is a decent enough psychological horror film that benefits from an exciting pace, attractive ambiance, and an unusually unhinged (though slightly over-the-top in a hammed out way) performance from Cusack. However, when battling it out in the final stretch, this mental exercise is exhausted with the constant plot-twists hardly adding up to anything more then...constant plot-twists. It is as if the third act of this hellish premise was so determined to continuously pull successive sheets off of our confused faces for further revelatory excitement that the conclusion just ends up feeling silly, contrived, and will likely end up leaving many viewers apathetic to the previous hour of entertaining suspense.