Good Premise - (Trite Ending + Bad Math) = So So Movie

Rating: Null/10 (5 April 2000)

I've read most of the reviews for this movie. My vote goes with the folks who thought it was a good idea that just didn't work out.
One comment I didn't see -- Was anyone else put off by the simplicity of the math element? I'm trying not to be pretentious, but really, the girl is a math student. Her first inclination is that booby traps are given away by the presence/absence of a prime number in the room's doorway. She tests her theory, looking at a number -- "602. Uh, let's see." She thinks for a while, "not prime." Duh. Didn't the girl learn in elementary school that any number that ends in 2 is divisible by 2? Next number: 905. Hmmm. Maybe divisible by 5? Now I'm thinking that if the girl is a math student, she's a really *bad* math student.
Ultimately she defers to the autistic member of the crowd to solve a problem she should have been doing in her head by her freshman year.
This might sound nit-picky, but the math turns out to be a big part of the plot. For me, at least, it was a distraction. Aside from the let-down slasher-type ending, and the not-quite-delivered premise, the movie fails to have a truly clever plot. If you're looking for one, and you remember how to factor numbers, you're not going to find it here.