Ok

Rating: 7/10 (10 May 2002)

Spoilers Within
4 of us watched this. The other 3 couldn't stand it & ripped it to pieces. I thought it was quite good, but am aware of what was wrong with it.
But to call the ending a surprise is way over the top. There are only really 6 characters in it so the choice was either: none of them are dead, some of them are or they all are, so it was no surprise for me, so don't expect the ending to come as that much of a shock.
The other criticism which I agreed somewhat with was that it took an awful long time to get to the point & not a lot happened along the way to get there. It was always watchable but at occasional point not exciting and could've done with being 10 minutes less.
On the plus side though, the young girl stole the show with a brilliant performance & Eric Sykes chipped in with a good role.
Unlike other films like this, I didn't find any major flaws or even minor ones. With the knowledge of the end, the early scenes all still work, as far as I know. The one grey area was the locking the doors. I failed to see the real relevance of it & don't know whether they were being locked really or not. I doubt it, but am not sure.
Whilst I found the ending no great surprise I thought it was a good ending & well done. But I would still describe it as 'An Ending' rather than 'The Ending.' There were many other avenues they could have gone down with the plot which would've worked too.
But overall, pretty good
7/10