Rachel Smith

This movie insults the viewer at every turn and I really hope the excuse is the director had to placate producers/executives and test groups. Yet there really is no excuse for the dialogue and laboring pace of this movie. Really trying to grasp the reviews that tout the depth of this film. The most troubling, Sarah Paulson's character, a glorified narrator expounding facts into the air as if she is literally reading a script to the rest of the cast. Announcing the same things in different ways...Telling us the main characters are escaping to the newest building in the city, then adding it's the tallest building in Philadelphia. It was on news casts and magazines throughout the film but thank goodness she explained it yet again. And why did she have to say this over the building's intercom in a Psychiatric Facility? The continuously delivered exposition throughout the film made this more like a kindergarten book. Although maybe if one more character had said "He thinks his weakness is water"instead of "take him to the water, he almost drowned once, it's his weakness" or better yet "the room will fill full of water, it's your weakness..." I wouldn't have forgotten his weakness was water. Unique story and great characters, just feels like the whole thing was dumbed down and for who I have no idea. It was painful to sit through despite the actors and cinematography.