A lot of promise that unfortunately failed at the final hurdle

Rating: 3/10 (16 June 2008)

After seeing the trailers and watching cast interviews etc , I was eagerly anticipating this movie , not only was I a reasonable fan of MNS's movie's but it came across as engaging and interesting and just my kind of movie. Midway through the movie and I wasn't disappointed , fast paced , unnerving scenes and thoroughly gripping and was excitedly waiting for the story to pan out. Unfortunately the whole movie faltered and didn't live up to the early promise, the content was just missing IMO , it felt like it just ran out of steam.
There were unnecessary scenes on one hand,what was the point in the whole crazy lady and her old school creepy"baby"doll side story?? totally out of place and before anyone says about her comments about the world not caring for her etc etc I got that but the rest was redundant. On the other hand the movie ended so quickly and with such an anticlimax I was left , or so I felt, a little bit cheated especially since the very final scenes just lacked originality and just lacked the response I assumed it was going for .
I think my whole problem about the film was I was expecting something special from such a great writer/director but ultimately I set my standards too high and this time he just didn't hit the mark.