Ricci is on fire.

Rating: 6/10 (8 January 2008)

Entertaining with great performance from Ricci. I've rarely seen such a courageous performance, and if you add that to the remarkable range she has throughout it's one of the better performances of the year. Also, when the hell did she got so hot and skinny? Jesus Christ. Justin Timberlake was also surprisingly good, displaying some strong acting skills. It's a shame that him and Ricci had absolutely no chemistry. I also loved the blues music scattered throughout. It really gave the film a great ambiance and put the viewer in the mindset of the characters. The main flaw of the film for me was the fact that I didn't care about any of the characters at all. It was also incredibly unrealistic how the minister was perfectly fine with a girl being chained up in Laz's house and that the boy didn't tell anyone, amongst other unrealisms. I really liked it though, a lot more than I thought.