Terrific popcorn movie

Rating: 7/10 (14 March 2008)

I read some reviews of this movie from 'serious' reviewers. The tendency was towards shallowness of plot and lack of credibility or explanation. I can't believe this. Decades on end I see Hollywood movies that are about having the right ingredients to earn money and suddenly they pick on this. But I saw why .. the director had a reputation from 'the green mile' and 'shawshank' so disappointment was around the corner. Consuming this movie for what it is, a unpretentious popcorn movie in which exaggerated human behavior under stress / shallow psychology is used as an extra entertainment factor I totally enjoyed myself. The only let-down for me was the sad ending which suggests some kind of pretentiousness after all, like it's some kind of tragedy/drama or something. I love the way tension is built up in this movie as much as I hate all the scream-like pseudo comical horror-movies from the past years.