Sick, Twisted, and Depraved; Don't Watch This While Eating

Rating: 2/10 (24 July 2012)

In the first few minutes of this movie, you get a good idea of what it's going to be like. We are taken to a crime scene where a grotesquely obese "shut-in" has been murdered. His bloated, decaying corpse has been there for awhile, with roaches and other vermin crawling all over the place. If this grosses you out, don't expect things to get much better, for this flick is nothing if not a first class gross-out. While there are a few elements of some interest, such as the sequence where annoying and mouthy Detective Mills (Pitt) attempts to run down the serial killer, or veteran actor Morgan Freeman's downbeat interpretation of the jaded detective, the movie is otherwise sadly lacking in redeeming value. The concluding scene is just plain sick, the sort of thing we've come to expect from Kevin Spacey, whom I cannot stand.