The movie stars Alfred Molina (Mavrick, Spider Man 2), Hope Davis (The Nines, Hearts in Atlantis), Simon Baker (L.A. Confidential, The Mentalist tv), Shane West, Rachael Leigh Cook (Jossie and the Pussycats, Falling Up), Phillip Baker Hall (All Good Things, Duck) and Kirk Fox.
The plot is Molina a cop is investigating the killings of prostitutes. The killer is back after a 7 year lay off. Mollina was the cop who put the suspect to death 7 years ago,. Davis has a lodger that may or may not be real who is a suspect.
The first scene did not draw me in that much. I thought the demand of the lodger, Baker, was a little too much to ask of a landlord. I think it took too long to draw me into the story. There was nothing to make me feel connected to the story. There was one good twist in the story, weather or not Baker is real.
The climax of the movie did not work for me. It seemed to me that they were trying to make the ending into two opposite explanations. (It like an immmovable object and an irristable force they cant excist in the same universe). They tried to have there cake and eat it to and it was confusing. Pick an ending and go with it.
I rated this movis as a C- or D. It was based on a Hitchcock movie (of the same name in 1927). I have not seen it but I would even think a bad Hitchcock is better then this movie.
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