Really?

Rating: 6/10 (21 February 2010)

I am not knocking the acting, direction, chemistry, or cinematography which is top notch. The score was a little heavy and Hitchcockian.
I do have unanswered questions and problems with contrivances that I'm hoping people can address and help me appreciate the movie more.
DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THIS MOVIE.
OK, so the entire movie from opening shot to lighthouse confrontation is a giant ROLE PLAYING SCENARIO for "Teddy"...
Didn't you find it ODD that...
1. the nurse pretending to be Rachel Maddow would pretend to be so crazy? That's a little over the top. 2. the lady being interviewed would write "RUN" on his notebook? Weren't these interviewees being prompted? 3. the guards were acting all tense upon Teddy's arrival (instead of having what I would imagine would be a "this is lame" sarcastic, apathetic, or attitude seeing that they were having to pretend a patient was a Marshall)? 4. the doctor would allow Teddy to go off without him, or even scale that impossible rock cliff? 5. that Teddy would know so much about psychotropic history and pharmaceuticals; after all HE was voicing the Rachel Maddow in the Cave who was a hallucination.
I also think the trailer was incredibly misleading, making it seem like a supernatural thriller by deliberately using the nightmare/dream images.
I also think it seems a little too close to another lame movie called "Identity".
Admittedly, maybe I will like it more upon a second viewing.