Not what the title suggests!!!

Rating: 7/10 (12 January 2007)

I understand that instead of the Texas Chainsaw, Friday the 13th or Halloween type insaneness, the movies gone out to try and be clever. But maybe, just maybe it was a bit too clever. The title leads you to think you're in for a real gore-fest type massacre when really it's nothing like that at all. You have to stay on the ball and thinking throughout and that's not really what those kind of people like to be do. So I can see it losing a few fans there. Secondly for the people who do like to combine intelligence with gore, it may have taken the intelligence thing it has going a bit far, thus confusing people. No doubt there will be those people in the middle who it was just right for and that's great. But the question that must be asked is, is there a high enough percentage of those people?
Personally, I was unsatisfied at the end. But it's the type of movie that if you took 5 people who'd just seen the movie, sat them down and asked them what they thought, they'd probably all give you a different opinion. Christian Bale truly is great in it, so no matter what I'd recommend giving it a go.