Normally I try to avoid doing reviews with spoilers but this one I just can't help it because it sticks with me long after the movie ends.
The movie itself is rather fun, not particularly amazing or interesting. It is a little bit sudden how the center of focus shifts very abruptly from focusing on one set of protagonists to suddenly focusing on another. As well, revealing very clearly who the killer is makes for this to not be much of a mystery but more of a character study/psychological type horror.
Unfortunately, the character, Nathan, is very dumb. Virtually every scene he's in he's drunk or drinking, acting creepy and smarmy, and frequently hallucinating ghosts of the people he's killed.
This is the most important part of why this character is so dumb, and thus why this movie is a little bit dumb.
The antagonist, Nathan, is constantly seeing ghosts of the people he's killed. He knows they are not real; they are demonic-looking and mutilated and gray. He even toys with one of the ghosts by running into it with his car and having it explode into ectoplasm or whatever.
Despite frequently seeing these ghosts and KNOWING they are ghosts or not real, this stupid idiot still freaks out every time he sees them, drawing tons of attention to himself in the process. He sees a ghost at a restaurant while out with his friends, and he tackles the ghost through a table, the ghost ending up being a random woman. Then he runs out in a panic.
Later on, he sees his girlfriend turn into a ghost repeatedly, and he violently attacks her, nearly killing her. Then he sees his younger brother, whom he dragged along to a murder, become a ghost, and he freaks out and kills him.
Obviously it's this sequence of events which leads to him being discovered, while he proceeds to then freak out and accidentally kill himself while having another ghost encounter. Despite the fact that he had been seeing ghosts for a long period of time, he reacts like a dumb animal each time he sees them.
He's just too dumb for his own good and it's kind of a wonder that he completely avoids suspicion until he starts smacking random people he sees as ghosts.
The movie itself is rather fun, not particularly amazing or interesting. It is a little bit sudden how the center of focus shifts very abruptly from focusing on one set of protagonists to suddenly focusing on another. As well, revealing very clearly who the killer is makes for this to not be much of a mystery but more of a character study/psychological type horror.
Unfortunately, the character, Nathan, is very dumb. Virtually every scene he's in he's drunk or drinking, acting creepy and smarmy, and frequently hallucinating ghosts of the people he's killed.
This is the most important part of why this character is so dumb, and thus why this movie is a little bit dumb.
The antagonist, Nathan, is constantly seeing ghosts of the people he's killed. He knows they are not real; they are demonic-looking and mutilated and gray. He even toys with one of the ghosts by running into it with his car and having it explode into ectoplasm or whatever.
Despite frequently seeing these ghosts and KNOWING they are ghosts or not real, this stupid idiot still freaks out every time he sees them, drawing tons of attention to himself in the process. He sees a ghost at a restaurant while out with his friends, and he tackles the ghost through a table, the ghost ending up being a random woman. Then he runs out in a panic.
Later on, he sees his girlfriend turn into a ghost repeatedly, and he violently attacks her, nearly killing her. Then he sees his younger brother, whom he dragged along to a murder, become a ghost, and he freaks out and kills him.
Obviously it's this sequence of events which leads to him being discovered, while he proceeds to then freak out and accidentally kill himself while having another ghost encounter. Despite the fact that he had been seeing ghosts for a long period of time, he reacts like a dumb animal each time he sees them.
He's just too dumb for his own good and it's kind of a wonder that he completely avoids suspicion until he starts smacking random people he sees as ghosts.