omendata I really enjoyed this film. I found the lugubrious pacing and slow menacing atmosphere quite interesting and it drew me in but then I have strange tastes. Reminds me of "Misery" but with a totally different angle.What surprised me even more is that I always thought Kate Bosworth was a terrible actress and I have now changed my opinion somewhat as she was really very good in this role.The twist in the tale was totally unexpected and made the film even more interesting. I guess when the story draws you in and you become immersed you are less likely to try and work things out and criticise but just let the story take you to the endpoint.I think I must be the only person in the reviews section that has given this a good review and I don't know why as the film was really rather good, apart from some plot holes; like who was the previous husband in the cupboard and why did the new guy not know about it or maybe he did as he had lost his memory and went along with it all because he did in fact love the main protagonist.

bobstofko This film had me intrigued throughout the whole thing. Here we have our dread villain, Kate Bosworth, as the 'Woman' (who had a great performance) who does these atrocious actions against the protagonist. All the while you are witnessing the most INEPT of all detectives/police. Throughout the whole film I had a feeling it was coming. I knew she was going to get away. I decided this the moment they had dinner. So the Woman goes Kathy Bates, Misery-like, and inflicts her brutality on her husband for the audience. The whole film. I get it. She is crazy and he is the victim.Then it all comes full circle. So the Woman wants to have children. She is crazy. Our tormented protagonist frees himself, saves a girl caged up (who freed herself and is now in a bathtub) from drowning by the Woman and knocks her out.Here is what gets me. When the twist comes I just kept saying 'no no that is not what they are doing.' Yup, that's exactly what they did. See, of course, both of them were in on the whole kidnapping bit. Idiot male protagonist goes along with said crazy wife to kidnap a girl, for money for her treatments, to help her have a child. Husband decides that he doesn't want to do this (um, too late) and they get into the car wreck that was established at the beginning of the film. So they are both wrong, quite obviously.Then here comes the worst bit. Idiot detective pins all of this on the husband. Considering it is obvious he was drugged and beaten. Wife, as we know, killed an innocent mailman and a police officer and, of course, she is nowhere to be found. Epilogue closes with crazy wife being the husband's nurse at the hospital (zero sense). Wife gets away free so she can continue her torture spree.What really gets me is that this whole film had this woman dominance thing going. It was like it was gratifying to constantly watch a man being gagged and tortured at the Woman's whim. The film was saying, 'Ya, this is okay for a woman to do this to a man. A man is getting tortured. There must be some reason why because men are horrible and do all of the worst crimes imaginable. OH, it looks like he was just an accomplice.' (Still an accessory, of course).

slpkrg It's an excellent movie to watch when you have a dinner and a movie date with your partner; for the movie doesn't really demand your continuing focus, so you can take a sip, share a bite and perhaps make out a bit and guess what? You haven't missed a thing, the movie is rolling on its own groggy pace, still at pretty much where you left off. But the joke aside, this is a fine thriller/soft horror by Polish. Great filmography, splendid staging, suggestive lighting and good acting by all. Suspense at every turn without the need of road signs, you know it is crawling in on you, Closer at every tick!! There are cross worlds of movies you feel like you're in, as in Reiner's Misery, as in Amenâbar's The Other's. Miss Bosworth's costume and mannerism is very much of Nicole Kidmans, the cool tempered eerie you-know-something-not-quite-right-but-can't-take-my- eyes-off-her beauty who makes sure the sun stays out and darkness creeps in, along with the door knockers. Later on you see Kate's trivia quipping character transform from Nicole Kidman's loving care into Katie Bates' kind of loving. The ending is quite abrupt and not to the expectation you might've dreamt up to that point but hey, still is a good flick when you're multi tasking. Keep your eyes peeled my friends..

albereinstein Someone tell what the hell was Kate Bosworth thinking when she took such a role. First let me just say that, the movie was just awful. Kate and Wes are not great actors and to put them together was only a recipe for disaster. The story could have been told a whole lot better if number one, it had a better story premise of kidnapping and two, if the characters were more believable. Bosworth did her best in trying to convince the audience of being some detached and cruel woman who's bitterness and hate was kept behind a phony smile and loving way to Wes who was her husband. But in the end neither character brought enough convincing to their roles leaving me very upset that I burnt more than an hour of my life, watching one of the worst movies ever. Do yourself a favor watch the trailer, and then go watch something else, because this was just awful.