A Muddled Mess

Rating: 1/10 (26 September 2005)

Muddled horror film that lacks not only credibility in its convictions but lacks a leading man that could make you believe in what is going on. Keanu Reeves is miscast to the point of it being a crime against cinema itself and he's so bad in this role that you wish he was playing in those Bill and Ted's films instead of being here in this film. His presence in this film makes it a cruel joke and that's pretty bad considering the fact that it did have potential but with a director who does not seem to know on what he is doing and a screenplay that is so horrible that you do end up cringing at some of the dialog spoken, the movie was destine to fail. The other actors in this film are just as bad Keanu himself with the exception of Rachel Weisz, whose great performance goes way above and beyond on what this movie really deserved and to Tilda Swinton, who does do wonders with her very badly written role. Other than Weisz and Swinton, the movie is more juvenile than compelling and that really the fault of the people in charge because they wanted to have their cake and eat it too with out taking account that the subject matter deserved better than this.