Disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (17 January 2015)

Remember when a movie was considered good because it made you feel something? What has happened as of late? I don't understand why this movie has gotten so much praise. I had been looking forward to seeing this since I first saw the trailer. The preview made it seem like a deep psychological thriller with similarities to Gone, Baby, Gone. Boy was I wrong. It was a cheap mystery which wasn't even suspenseful because the answer is revealed in the middle of the movie. I can't stand the lead actress. She is so wooden. I didn't feel whatever great love they were trying to portray in the beginning of their relationship. I didn't like the way their relationship fell apart with very little visual explanation. They said it fell apart because of a, b and c but there was only one scene when she kind of got a tiny bit bitchy about him playing video games. That was supposed to show the deep hatred that developed between them? It was more interesting and believable when I thought he may have actually been abusive. Then it's revealed later on that he actually wanted desperately to have a baby with her after he had already started an affair with a student? OK...
I won't go into all the other super obvious holes in the plot because many other reviewers have already pointed them all out. It seems like the story outside of her plot only evolved to make her plot possible. Like they were making it up as they went along. I didn't care a bit about any of the characters. There wasn't enough character development for that. I didn't even care about the creepy twin sister who seemed to have no life outside of what was happening with her brother. When the big reveal happens at the end, I wished his sister had just killed him herself to put him out of his misery. And don't get me started on Neil Patrick Harris in his role. That was a terrible choice. Was he or wasn't he actually a stalker? I still don't know.
I gave this movie a 4 because it wasn't completely terrible. I was somewhat entertained. I just didn't feel a damn thing about it and when it was over, I had wished I had chosen to watch a TV show on Netflix instead of wasting 2 hours and 5 bucks renting it on Amazon. It was just blah.