Ziad T

Vomitous rubbish that will kill your brain cells. How do scripts like these ever get past the producers’ filters? The acting is horrible. The scenes are contrived. What's with the sideways camera angles? It's just all around garbage and nonsense. I get that it’s a movie and holes in the storyline must be pardoned, but…seriously...please!...Really?!! She’s a therapist, a counselor who in one scene advises her patient to forgive family members and try to understand where they’re coming from, then in the next scene she’s sneaking around her architect husband suspecting he’s hiding something from her instead of first talking to him and asking questions. She finally gets around to asking him what he's been up to. His explanation is coupled with some of the worst acting in the film, and that's really saying something because it's all really bad. I wondered how many takes it must've taken for the director to conclude, "That's the best we're gonna get. Next scene!", or if he just kept the first cut not knowing any better. Here’s another one: During their house party, where BTW all of the guests are young, thin, attractive, and white, except for one token black guy, she sneaks away from all of her guests to his home office and discovers a hidden door leading to a secret basement the size of 3-car garage. Mind you, this is in a house which HE designed and built, which apparently SHE NEVER ONCE VISITED during its construction. In this basement, she finds he’s been hiding a missing girl the cops told her about, whose father and brothers he killed (it seems we're supposed to have guessed that because the storyline is empty on that particular side story), all because he has “urges”…urges which apparently he satisfies using the shackled prisoner so he can remain happily married to his wife – oooh, that’s rich! The girl is gagged, blindfolded, manacled and chained to a chair and drainage pipe, which BTW has accessible clean-out ports, so good thinking there on his part; you never know when you have to unblock your home's drainage in the basement where you lock up kidnapped teenage "urge" slaves. The girl is unconscious…um…er…until she’s not, suddenly jolting awake with energy enough to clang the chains and pipe with such force as to alarm the husband so he can hear that someone’s in the secret basement no one else is supposed to know about. He too leaves his party guests, remember there are dozens of them milling about the house, finds his wife with the abducted girl, she tries to get away, they fight, he throws her to the floor, ties her up with rope and brackets that happen to be anchored in the cement walls (this guy has really thought this dungeon prison through), returns to the party where no one seems to care that both hosts have been missing for a long time, or that he’s bleeding and his shirt is covered in blood, he abruptly ends the party, asks them to leave, and they all merrily say their goodbyes and go…You can guess how it ends. Ugh! Do yourself a favor and skip this one.