Review by ordinary bloke (NOT a movies fan/expert)

Rating: 5/10 (12 April 2017)

I'm an IT expert, as a student I worked for a local production company that was shooting (as a 3rd party) a lot of Hollywood movies. So I saw a lot of these, how they're made. But I'm not a movies fan or wannabe reviewer.
So, what made me write my first ever review ?
Emotions. This movie got to my soul, with it's interesting story, unusual acting, looks. Bad stuff got me emotional because it ruined a good story and brave try out of usual Hollywood clichÃ©.
Like many US movies, this one also follows the path of artificial looks of people, especially women, artificial scenography. If we are going to dive into weird reality of crazy multi person kidnapper - and you expect us to believe you - than you cannot make victims to look like Barby dolls. With perfect makeup, perfect clean clothes, even dough they are crying imprisoned for days. Same goes for the shrink. Photography and scenery follows the same logic, it's a world and aesthetics for itself, without respecting the story or trying to help us to believe in your script and insanity of main character.
It's just like asking us to believe McDonald's burgers are 100% natural, and McDonald's workers love doing their job. No one believes it. It all looks FAKE FAKE FAKE.
I saw this happen a lot in movie making, you got directors dying for details, and they just do not see, the movie is dying while they're setting up "perfect" lightning, scenery, makeup, ETC.
Story, you "killed" all other characters except main 3, so it becomes absolutely obvious what is going to happen. Too obvious. Main character uncontrollably goes into beast, without any options and questions. Missed opportunities for intense sessions at shrink. Along with one girl left.
Ruined story. And it had sooo much potential.
Sorry but Hollywood disappointed me again, and insulted our intelligence. Theater stage/scene looks more realistic real scene shoot for movie, think about that, movie makers...