the first 3/4th were pretty good

Rating: 7/10 (11 May 2003)

The first 3/4th of this film wasn't to bad, and for a while there, I was kind of impressed with what I was seeing, considering the bad word of mouth reviews I had heard, and some of the problems that occured on the set. First off, the clues that they give as to who the actual killer identity is are broadcast loud and clear. The story of how everybody gets to the hotel is kinda neat, and the little backgrounds that are given are sufficent, but my main complaint is that there are to many characters. With too many characters, there is no real way to make any of these characters fully fleshed out and make us really care or hate them. That combined with a weak cop out ending make this a film that you should see if you have nothing better to do. Everything else is fine. On a side note, John Cusack tried to get out of the project 3/4 of the way into filming due to different people rewirting the ending.