What was the hype all about?

Rating: 5/10 (31 October 2004)

I wanted to see this movie so bad, but once it was over, i was disappointed.
The story lagged in the beginning and the acting could have been a lot better. The flashbacks seemed to be neverending and i found myself getting bored with it a lot. Once most of the flashbacks were done, it started to pick up. But then it was so far into the movie that it seemed useless to try and save it. The believability that someone planned all of the puzzles by themself is a stretch. I know that there are some sick people out there, but come on, it's really far fetched, i believe. Anyways, the ending did help pick it up, but it seemed like too little too late. It just seemed like, if you didn't figure everything out by the end, they force fed you the truth and that left me more confused than if they wouldn't have done it. Overall, the movie is lacking in believability and the ending is a sorry attempt at making it a "good" movie.