A thriller short on thrills

Rating: 4/10 (28 April 2003)

While not as bad as I feared, the film was ultimately a disappointment. The elements of the plot are so cliched that it reminded me of something that Donald Kaufman (the less-talented fictional brother in "Adaptation") might have successfully pitched. The "big revelation" was heavily telegraphed beforehand and only elicited a ho-hum response from the audience, and by the end of the movie I was thoroughly bored (although one woman in the row behind me loudly stated "I don't get it" when the film ended, but that's LA audiences for you).