Interesting flick but...

Rating: 6/10 (26 December 2004)

- SPOILERS - - How stupid does Wan think his audience is? What's with that confident look on Gordon's wife's face right before her conflict with the "killer" when she was as wimpy as a kitten prior to this? What's the purpose of the mouth gags when they're able to talk anyway? And why was she able to easily remove the rope tying her hands? And the "killer" is made a fool of and stabbed by Gordon's wife, but later on the same "killer" is able to physically outsmart and beat the much stronger ex-Detective?

That's just lame. And the acting by Elwes is as bad as you could imagine. I can't believe it made the edit, maybe for the camp-factor, but I have a hard time believing it. This is the strangest bit of bad acting I've seen in a while and I'm still puzzled by it. 6/10 for an interesting spin on horror and a decent film debut for Wan, held back by Elwes and the above lameness.