Very Disappointing! The scariest part of the film is the Close up of the Phil Collins C.D. Cover!

Rating: 1/10 (29 June 2001)

This had the potential to be brilliant, but is very poorly written.

The dialogue is weak to say the least. The main character's dialogue is inane and pretentious, and the feeble attempt to add depth by petty obsessiveness does not work to the judging eye.
Also he is remarkably insecure, which is greatly at odds with his achievement in life - a brilliant, calculating careerman, which is what he must have been up to this point in his life to get the office that he has!

In the parts where Bale is about to wreak havoc, he embarks on post-modern soliloquy, based on the careers of Pop Stars. No doubt, the aim of these commentaries, was to chill our spines, that this highly reasoning, exponent of individualism, could use his intelligence to mindlessly chop people up!
However, rather than being spine tingling, the dialogue merely bores us to death and the victims surely would not have felt any pain, and they would have been rendered unconscious by his mind-numbing long before he got around to dismembering them.
Where the hell was the end? Perhaps they realized it was going to be as pants as the rest of the movie and cut it!
The scariest part of the film is the Close up of Phil Collins C.D. Cover!
Sorry Christian, this film couldn't cut mustard, let alone it's victims!