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Rating: 3/10 (17 June 2006)

I am not the ideal audience for a movie like this. I've grown very tired of movies written backwards from the big reversal-ending and this is one of the very limpest. The only one I think was any good was "The Others," whose surprise ending didn't cheapen every frame of the movie that came before it. I am not a fan of John Cusack, whose appeal escapes me. But I was intrigued that he would take a role like this in a movie like this. But it's really only interesting enough to be a short TV movie. Hopefully this movie is the caboose on the surprise-ending movie train. I don't hate it, I just don't think it's worth your time. I don't think it's a sleeper that will gain in reputation. It'll just be forgotten.