Taking lives, destins violés

Autour du meurtrier, il y a une aura nulle, entre les personnages, le film fonctionne à mi-temps, la tension est moins intense que les champignons dans le désert et le dénouement surprenant est un piège aux dimensions autodérisoires d'un thriller vidéo de série B. Sans parler de la "fin" du film, que les créateurs n'ont peut-être même pas pris au sérieux. La pluie occasionnelle et les visages tièdes de tous présents créent une sensation de monde froid et mauvais, mais la musique légèrement exotique de Philip Glass ne dégage aucun mystère ni obscurité. Elle ne convient en rien au film. La traque du meurtrier elle-même, qui occupe les deux tiers du film, manque d'idées scénaristiques et de sentiment croissant d'oppression. Bien qu'il y ait deux visites "batterie" dans des endroits sombres avec de belles excentricités, la force de ces excentricités est directement proportionnelle à leur inutilité. Vous serez effrayé, mais quand vous réfléchirez à ce qui s'est passé, ça ne va pas bien. D.J. Caruso a fait preuve d'un sens de la forme parfaite dans son précédent drame The Salton Sea, qu'il n'applique pas ici. (25/04/2004)

I don't understand how Caruso managed to become a laid-back hitmaker like Disturbia based on this unsuccessful mess. Angie plays her role well, Hawke excels, and a great cameo in the middle of the film briefly stirs things up, but a thriller without suspense? An action movie with only one chase scene? A psychological crime story without a hint of atmosphere? I'm not interested. Especially since the killer's identity is so obvious that I almost didn't want to believe that I hadn't misjudged it. (17/05/2008)

In the end, it turned out exactly as I expected (and man how those glasses suited him at the end!). But that's fine with me, sometimes movies just turn out the way you think they will. The worst was the lame dialogue. Having the most perfect heroine (Jolie didn't show anything new, it was all old, hackneyed, and bad; all she showed were her tits...) didn't add to the beauty of it either, she was the one who pissed me off the most. All in all, I was thinking this was a movie for the garbage rating. I only gave it a single star for the few moments when I didn't roll my eyes and tell myself the heroine needed to die (after all, she wasn't in the scene most of the time...). (09/12/2010)

A relatively solidly directed film with a few solid twists and turns, an attractive Angelina Jolie, and nothing more we haven't seen elsewhere. (23/04/2004)

This was a huge disappointment. After the first scene, one is excited because it could be something truly good, thrilling, but the tension quickly disappears because the viewer immediately realizes who they are actually looking for. Even the twist at the end, which was equally transparent, doesn't change that. Only the naked Angelina brought it up to those few percent. (11/01/2015)