A Cliche Horror Movie

Rating: Null/10 (27 May 2003)

Spoilers Herein.

As the title of this review indicates, this is a very cliche horror movie. Almost every possible horror movie stereotype is used. From the unexpected identity of the killer, to the sequential (and numbered) killings of all of the people, to everyone having something in common (a birthday), this movie covers just about all of them.
Firstly, one of the main short comings of the movie, was the hectic nature in which it switched from killing to killing, and then back to the plot, and then to an unforseen plot twist, and then back to killing. One of the worst of these is when they all discover that they were born on the same day. They are just sitting in the room, having had another person brutally massacred minutes earlier, and then they randomly come up with the idea that they have something in common. Having been in the same situation myself, I would first think about either
1) Oh *@#* I am going to die, or 2) How the @#* do I get out of here?
Anyway, the acting is good at times and bad at times. Ray Liotta is truly genious at most things that he does. From Shoeless Joe Jackson to this felon dressing like a cop, he does a good job of portraying things.
At the end of the movie we find out that none of this ever happened, and that it was all a guy with schizophrenia, and blah, blah, blah, more cliche stuff and then we arrive at the actual ending. Somewhere in the middle of the movie, someone says a line from a poem "I saw a man who wasn't there" etc. At the time this is said, it became so blatantly obvious to me, almost like a premonition, that this was going to be the end of the movie, I did not feel that I had to watch the end of the movie. I did though, and sure enough, a twist ending with the line closing the movie.
Despite the fallicies of this movie, it is still enjoyable for those who enjoy horror movies and such. If not you can laugh at how incredibly cliche it is.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5