Great thriller!!!

Rating: 7/10 (22 December 2006)

I watched this movie and I really enjoyed. I found myself surprised how good it was. Since there are a couple twists near the end you feel desperately the need to watch it again to see the situation from the new point of view, and keep enjoying. Warning. If you watch it once again it may be weak the second time because of some "plot holes" if you want to call it that way.
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The movie works because it claims to be about 10 people who meet in a motel forced by a storm. Then these people are front a killer in disguise, one of them is the killer and you keep wondering who. Near the end the first twist shows you that these 10 people and the motel never existed because they are all in the mind of a convict who suffers a multiple personality syndrome and each person is a different personality of his. When you find this truth all the situation in the motel shocked you because you know it is not real, but you do not care because actually this happens very near the end. This is handled greatly, some minutes later there is another twist that is great too! I have to say the finale is PERFECT because this convict hates whores because his mom was a whore and she abandoned him, so the whore must be killed too, but I would have really liked to see the fat guy with some peace of mind and with the girl in the orange grove living her second chance. So I would have liked the finale being just the blending when the girl sings the song.
I rented this movie in DVD so I could watch it again knowing the truth. Why did I say the second time it may be weak? Because when you know the killer is the little boy you find strange that he was able to do all the murders and here is where you see the "plot holes": There is a storm out there, but the boy murders people and keeps his clothes always dry. Also he has the strength to confront adult people and kill them? Well, he did not kill everyone, but almost. Anyway this "plot holes" are not real plot holes, because you know this all happens inside the convict mind so everything is possible.
What is a real plot hole is at the finale, when the doctor opens the cage door while the fat guy is struggling himself. Careless move from a doctor! And also why the fat guy killed his doctor? OK, in his mind it was the whore, but during all the dream there were murders at the motel and he did not kill anyone at the office! Maybe just because he was tied?
What I did not like in this movie is that I found many homage to many other horror movies Psycho, Seven and I Know What You Did Last Summer among others. I laughed when the Amanda Peet characters cries through the window "I give up! What the hell do you want, you sick bastard?" I was expecting she spinning and shouting "What are you waiting for? What are you waiting for?" from I Know What You Did Last Summer satirized by Scary Movie.
All in all, as I said I liked this movie a lot. And for the people who thinks it is impossible for the child to kill the others, again, it is all in the fat guy's mind, so everything is possible there, and that is why sometimes you see the motel a mile far and suddenly you are right at the motel. It is impossible to walk a mile in a second. Right? But everything is possible in the mind.