terrible disturbing movie

Rating: 1/10 (24 January 2006)

This movie is ridiculously uncomfortable to sit through. I checked my watch after only 45 minutes and seriously thought I had been there for two and a half hours. It is deceivingly disturbing and the kind of movie that makes you squirm constantly. I know some like feeling that kind of tension when they see new films, however I would rather jump off a bridge or watch 20 mary kate and ashley movies in a row than see this movie again. There is a weird scene in the end of the movie featuring an otherworldly Scarlett Johansen that just doesn't even make sense in the context. I felt like I was watching a cheesy lifetime or scifi movie at this point rather than an intellectual drama. Scarlett Johansen and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers had an attraction and chemistry that seemed to work but also made the viewer squeamish at their unnatural obsession. Woody Allen is indeed a freak.