Decent movie but a total rip off of a book

Rating: 7/10 (26 August 2004)

While the movie was a little short of my expectations, it was overall a very solid movie. I don't like that people are ripping the director. His first film, The Sixth Sense, was by far his best, but his other movies are still very solid. If it hadn't been for his first, people would be singing his praises even more.
However, I thought this movie was a total rip off of a book a read a long time ago called, "Running Out of Time." Toward the end of the movie, I really starting thinking of the correlations between the two, and in the end, realized I was right.
I still think it was a solid movie and recommend it to people, if not in the theatre, definitely when it comes out to video and DVD.
7/10