What I find truly disturbing is the many positive audience reviews for this trashy and twisted piece of filmmaking - to me what these reviews reveal about our current social culture is how far we have descended into a vaudevillian celebration of stomach-churning, debased voyeurism and dangerously baleful apathy toward sociopathy. The film was appallingly bad with plot holes that sickeningly presume to persuade the audience to come to their own worst conclusions.
I wanted to turn it off several times but I guess the only reason I didn’t was because I was waiting for it to somehow redeem itself which most definitely never happened. This was no “Talented Mr. Ripley” which in every way brought so much more dimension, pathos and compassion to its tragic tale of lost souls. This film, on the other hand, feels like something I wish I hadn’t allowed myself to be heartlessly assaulted by.