So the movie starts with the main character escaping from the hole. She's interviewed by the police so they can find out what happened. She gives her story for maybe the first quarter or so. She blames her jealous friend for setting up this trap that presumably ended up in the deaths of three other characters. Then the second quarter starts and we hear the friend's side of the story, which is almost the opposite of what we just saw. The movie got interesting here. We've got an established mystery, we don't even know the end result of the mystery or what happened in the hole, but we've got to figure out why it happened and go from there.
Then the movie takes a disappointing turn and simply continues on with the friend's side of the story. It turns out he's telling the truth and the movie doesn't even try to convince you otherwise. So it ends up not being some mystery that unfolds where two people tell opposing stories, it's just one story, and the whole first quarter of the movie didn't matter. The entire second half continues on with this until the very end, where I was hoping that maybe there'd be some kind of twist, but no. Nothing. We just accept the facts that we were bluntly told a quarter way through, that the main character is a psychopath and it was she who set the whole thing up.
The movie is very early 2000s and it comes off as laughable a lot of the time. Sometimes the acting can be good, but often times it isn't. The score sucks because of how dated it is, and the script can be pretty cringey too. Early on I started to think that this movie would suck because of all these things, but then I thought maybe this interesting mystery would unfold, and the writing would save the film. That doesn't happen. It's entertaining enough, and I guess it's worth watching if it's on TV or something, but otherwise there's no real point in watching it. The story is so clichéd you won't be missing much.
Then the movie takes a disappointing turn and simply continues on with the friend's side of the story. It turns out he's telling the truth and the movie doesn't even try to convince you otherwise. So it ends up not being some mystery that unfolds where two people tell opposing stories, it's just one story, and the whole first quarter of the movie didn't matter. The entire second half continues on with this until the very end, where I was hoping that maybe there'd be some kind of twist, but no. Nothing. We just accept the facts that we were bluntly told a quarter way through, that the main character is a psychopath and it was she who set the whole thing up.
The movie is very early 2000s and it comes off as laughable a lot of the time. Sometimes the acting can be good, but often times it isn't. The score sucks because of how dated it is, and the script can be pretty cringey too. Early on I started to think that this movie would suck because of all these things, but then I thought maybe this interesting mystery would unfold, and the writing would save the film. That doesn't happen. It's entertaining enough, and I guess it's worth watching if it's on TV or something, but otherwise there's no real point in watching it. The story is so clichéd you won't be missing much.