Superb - Twists and Turns Galore!

Rating: 9/10 (9 May 2006)

I really knew nothing about this film before watching it, and was keen to watch it mostly because I am a bit of a fan of John Cusack - though I tend not to be much of a fan of Thriller films.
But I really enjoyed this film! Essentially, this is a murder mystery in a classic scenario of 'group of people trapped in a location (a motel) with someone killing them off one by one'.
I don't want to spoil the film for you, so all I can say is that at first the emphasis of the story, for the viewer, is 'whodunnit', and of course there are opportunities to consider almost all the group... However, something then happens so that you have to reevaluate what you are watching. The emphasis remains on 'whodunnit' - even though your framing of that question will have changed. Then something else happens, so you have to reevaluate again, and so on.
I can only assume that the people who did not like this film are the sort of people who will not have liked 6th Sense because ghosts don't exist do they? My point being, most films need you to suspend your belief in some way, and I found that this film at least explained most if not all issues very well.