Film Filter: Off- While perusing Netflix, my friend and I had it narrowed down to three scary movies, and this one looked the most promising. Better luck next time, I guess.
Pros- As I rack my brain trying to come up with a pro for this film, I find myself coming up horribly short. It's a stretch, but one pro was that I was able to watch it from beginning to end. The only reason for that being that I was waiting for something that was never actually bound to happen...a climax or resolution that made sense.
Another pro of this movie was the fact that the CSI Miami star was featured in this film. I bet this is what they saw to make their casting decision for the show, which would also explain why everyone finds David Caruso's character so...interesting. Was his acting good? No, not really. But he was fun to watch mainly because it validates that we aren't being unfairly critical of his cheese-ball-licious performances on his TV melodrama.
Cons- I'm going to try to make this as short and painless as possible, because re-hashing this film to any lengthy degree is just going to continue to frustrate me.
Con #1- There. Was. No. Logical. Plot. This could probably actually summarize all the beef I have with this movie. It's listed as a scary movie, yet none of the following occur: gory moments, pop-out moments, suspenseful moments, or "ah-ha" it all makes sense moments. My theory is that this is designed to be similar in feel to the Blair Witch Project (minus the found footage concept) in that it is supposed to scare you with what you're thinking rather than what you're seeing. Ummm, fail. Epic fail. You can't scare people with their thoughts when they don't know what the f^#@ to think!
This story is supposed to be about a crazy schizophrenic person with three personalities that brutally murdered her brother long before present day. This was revealed to the psychiatrist during session 9 of their documented therapy sessions. The only problem is, if this movie is about PSYCHOSIS, and not POSSESSION, how was this odd third malevolent personality of the dead woman roaming about the facility able to affect others? This movie leads you to believe that the main character is influenced by "Billy", but Billy was a product of the crazy girl's psychosis, not an entity that can influence others. It would be one thing if the institution made everyone crazy in their own way, but to recreate someone's exact schizophrenia in someone else is just stupid and illogical. There are a hundred different ways they could have made this movie work to their advantage, but they chose poorly.
Con #2 - The personalities of the characters were not very believable and almost too focused in the wrong direction. This movie spent SO much time letting you believe that certain characters were the bad guys, that when you found out who it actually was, it made no sense. And not in a good, "Oh, that was a cool twist!" kind of way. More like a, "Umm, okay?" way.
Con #3- You CANNOT just run around an insane asylum and throw a needle in people's eyes to give them a lobotomy. Why? 1) You don't have a license to practice medicine, and 2) That's unhygienic as all get out. Seriously, get some isopropyl alcohol or something.
Wrap up - The moral of the story is...if Netflix rates a movie as a three, it's usually garbage. And David Caruso can't act.
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