Uhhh...thank you M. Night Shyamalan for making Hollywood forever think it will create the next "Sixth Sense" ending

Rating: 6/10 (25 February 2006)

The movie tried, I'll give it that. It went for the psychotic thriller surprise ending, with a final dramatic music score to boot. The only problem is I was already asleep by the finale and had stopped caring how the movie ended. There's something incredibly annoying about a serial killer who thinks he's going to teach the secrets of life to his victims when they're not screaming and begging for their lives. But I'll tell you what the biggest drag of all was in this average horror flick. Not ten minutes into the film and we already know who the killer is! If it isn't obvious by the pointless but eerie five second cameo he makes in a victim's background story, it becomes even more apparent during the brief head shots as we see someone watching a security camera. Showing the killer so early means that either: 1) this movie is incredibly lame because we've already figured out who the killer is, or 2) this movie is incredibly lame because we know that no screenwriter would be dumb enough to reveal the obvious killer this early and it was just a tease to warn us of a surprise ending. And boy did this movie try to brag about its clever surprise ending! I think the obligatory "Sixth Sense highlight reel" that showed us all the clues we had missed lasted almost two hours! The only problem is that I had already been warned of a surprise ending by the movie itself and the hostages in this movie were so uninteresting, I was ready for Mr. Jack the Ripper to quit playing his games and finish them off. I mean... really, could there be a dumber set of victims? At least in "Friday the 13th" we get hot co-ed babes jumping their camp counselors before they are murdered. Apparently, in the world of "Saw," cops no longer call for backup and women have the guts to get into a fist fight with their abductor but freeze when they have to fire a gun. I think I saw this movie ten years ago, only it was called "Seven" and it was a heck of a lot more interesting, and that's my recommendation: Rent "Seven" first and then give this rip-off a shot.