Surprise, surprise!

Rating: 9/10 (6 March 2010)

Didn't catch it on it's first run. Didn't even think to catch it when it came out, or ever for that matter. The trailer sucked, let's be real about that. It was like lame to the max. But I heard all this hype about it from everybody I know, so now it's one of those things you have to see, just to see what you missed. Usually, when I hear a lot of hype and good things about a movie I don't like the movie as much because my expectations are too high. This was an exception. Totally original. Or as far as I know it was totally original. At first I thought it was going to be another lame sci-fi movie but it was just awesome and originaldid I say it was original already? But seriously, I can't wait for the next one to come out. The possibilities are endless on how to open up the next one. There was only one thing I would have done differently. The wife. She just didn't read sincere to me. It wasn't consistent. I felt like they should have made the audience feel like she was unaware that they were tracing the call and that she lead her father right to him. I asked my friends about this and their general consensus was she was a bitch. But I don't think that was the intention. I think they just edited it incorrectly or left out a scene. The director dropped the ball on this. Because everyone that I knew that saw the movie didn't care for her character because they felt like she set him up. I mean, at the beginning of the movie she seems really cool and missing him and all that, but then there's a moment on the phone it comes off like she set him up. A simple fix would have been just to show the father and company in a way that it was crystal clear she was unaware they were tracing the call. That's the only thing in the entire movie that bugged me. Otherwise, it was perfect.