pretty awful

Rating: 1/10 (28 February 2010)

I gave this one star for the acting. Lets pretend making this movie was like making a cake. O.K. you get a bowl out, dump the flour with the scoop, into it, drop in two eggs in their shells, pour in some sugar without measuring it, throw in some oil, then divide it between two pans and put in a 175º oven and you would have the kind of cake that relates to a regular cake in the way that this movie relates to a "regular" movie. In other words a half baked mess. This movie is corny most of all. Not the least suspenseful, very unpleasant . . . repeatedly with the same material! I never did get what the theme with the fire was supposed to be about. Never was sure if lighthouse scene was imaginary or real. I mean climbing up many stairs to what would be the top of a lighthouse and opening a door into a lavishly large space? Or going into a real life office that contained no stairs? Also we are supposed to believe that one rather "mild" patient is the most violent patient in a hospital for the criminally insane? anyone out there know what real criminally insane people do? Oh, and most of all someone should be sued or fired or interred somewhere for that suit that poor Mark Ruffolo had to wear in the last scene!