Predictable

Rating: 5/10 (25 February 2010)

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS The movie all in all wasn't terrible. For the first 15 minutes I thought that the twist ending might end up being that everyone on the island, including Leo, were already dead and ghosts. As bad as that ending sounds, it would have been 100 times better than the actual plot. 30 minutes into the movie i leaned over to my girlfriend and said Leo is insane and is a patient. She replied with yeah his wife probably killed his kids and then he killed her. My girlfriend never watches movies. She was spot on. The foreshadowing in this movie is way way way overdone and makes the entire plot, or lack thereof, pointless. Anyone with a 5th grade education knows whats going to happen at least by the 1 hour mark. The movie looks great, the sets are a little overdone but they do look the part. This movie would have been more compelling if it was actually about Nazi mind control experiments or even about an island full of ghosts. When the end of the movie finally comes around, after what seems like an eternity of glaringly obvious "hints" that Leo is insane, you figure out that he has overcome his delusions and is accepting his fate of having a lobotomy so that he can forget what he has done. The final line he delivers leaves no doubt that this is the outcome not that he is still insane. Worth a watch but by no means great.