They obviously had a great idea going into production of this film. How can you make a bad movie about a serial killer that kills people and takes there identities and follow the woman that is on the case and how she finally brings him down. Well, they managed to do that with this formulaic, boring film with a tacked on ending.
Don't get me wrong, it did have its entertaining moments but there certainly weren't enough to save this film. It is appalling that the script came out appearing so haphazard and unbelievable after it went through so many rewrites by so many different people.
The performances weren't particularly strong in this film. Angelina Jolie hasn't given us much to be impressed with in a very long time, and the supporting cast wasn't much better.
As for the ending. Lets just put it this way, the second you are watching a movie and they rule the guy out right off the bat and say that he couldn't have done it, he did it. You knew that Ethan Hawk was the killer from six minutes into the film. There were no surprises.
As followed is the bad crime thriller formula for Hollywood: Large breasted cop gets on a murder case, the killer gets introduced, they don't know it the killer (we aren't supposed to either but anyone with half a brain figures it out), killer toys with large breasted cop for a long time without her knowing it, inevitably the killer and the large breasted cop have sex (this is used to get the teenage men in to see the film despite the bad reviews its bound to get), then the cop finds out that her love interest is the killer, she gets over it in thirty seconds flat and eventually kills him. This is how they make money, this is how they probably did make money on this film, unfortunately it had no artistic appeal.
I wouldn't recommend waisting your time on this one. I know that I'll have a lot of guys that I went to high school with disagree with me on what I'm about to say next but I'll say it any way. Angelena Jolies breasts are not enough to make a good movie.
Don't get me wrong, it did have its entertaining moments but there certainly weren't enough to save this film. It is appalling that the script came out appearing so haphazard and unbelievable after it went through so many rewrites by so many different people.
The performances weren't particularly strong in this film. Angelina Jolie hasn't given us much to be impressed with in a very long time, and the supporting cast wasn't much better.
As for the ending. Lets just put it this way, the second you are watching a movie and they rule the guy out right off the bat and say that he couldn't have done it, he did it. You knew that Ethan Hawk was the killer from six minutes into the film. There were no surprises.
As followed is the bad crime thriller formula for Hollywood: Large breasted cop gets on a murder case, the killer gets introduced, they don't know it the killer (we aren't supposed to either but anyone with half a brain figures it out), killer toys with large breasted cop for a long time without her knowing it, inevitably the killer and the large breasted cop have sex (this is used to get the teenage men in to see the film despite the bad reviews its bound to get), then the cop finds out that her love interest is the killer, she gets over it in thirty seconds flat and eventually kills him. This is how they make money, this is how they probably did make money on this film, unfortunately it had no artistic appeal.
I wouldn't recommend waisting your time on this one. I know that I'll have a lot of guys that I went to high school with disagree with me on what I'm about to say next but I'll say it any way. Angelena Jolies breasts are not enough to make a good movie.