Think before you speak

Rating: Null/10 (3 May 2003)

Spoilers inside:
I decided to comment on this because I disagreed with a lot of what was being said about this film. It is somewhat of a slasher movie although not even close to a Friday the 13th installment. My main problem with the movie is that at the end it fell into formula and cliche which may very well have been the studio and/or test audiences. The problem with it being a slasher movie is that as far as slasher movies today go this would be very tame. There is a disembodied head found but that's about the most gruesome it gets. I put the spoiler warning at the front of this b/c if you're going to talk about MPD (multiple personality disorder) and this movie a spoiler warning should be there. Many complain all over the place about how cliche MPD is as a plot device in these kinds of movies. Yeah, it is, and I agree that it's also overused but this movie does do something different with it and I will explain. This guy doesn't just have MPD and then that supposedly makes the movie cool because we see all of his personalities slowly but surely emerge. We meet his personalities first, as if they are actual people, and then we see him. Later, the two are associated together. What's interesting about this movie is that it takes you inside the mind of a person with MPD. How accurate it is I'm really not sure, what I do know about MPD leads me to believe that for someone not knowing they have the disorder, this would be very close. In this case MPD wasn't used as a cop-out like it normally is, the disorder is the movie. In my opinion the best actors survive the longest at the hotel but I won't give away who they are. There was a cop-out in the movie but it wasn't the MPD it was the ending revelation of the killer which was cliche and stupid. On the whole, however I really enjoyed the movie and think it is getting a somewhat bad wrap on the whole. I think it's worth seeing. 7/10