ozarkent Not until the last 5 minutes or so do we see why really happened, well really what the story was about. I saw a few of the things early on, but not tied in until the end. As a few people said, 2 different stories with only 1 character in common. Don't watch

liveride Keanu Reeves, Mira Sorvino, a gorgeous Anna De Armas...what can go wrong? Disjointed execution of the plot and withholding evidence from the viewers until the end of the film. *spoiler alert* We never know why Detective Galban (Keanu) has an interest in Isabel (Anna) until we see the wedding ring and shoe heel evidence recovered from the first murder crime scene, with about 10min left in the movie. Isabel is a pleasure to look at, so lovely, clean and faithful and I was never bored when she was on screen. Galban on the other hand was a lead weight, bumbling his way through both his investigation, personal life, and sex with Sorvino. Mira Sorvino injected a little life into the non-latin side of the film, but suffered from acting opposite Keanu and dull film quality. There was some street gang interactions and murders that made little to no sense. The ending rounds things out relatively well as we learn of the rapes and incest that let to multiple murders, but it's a painful road for the viewer to get that far.

katecnin This movie dragged and dragged. The beginning starts off with a 5 minute walk down the subway station. If your not the person who made the movie this is how you feel up until the absolute end. You feel like your watching 2 separate people's lives and your not getting what the connection is. Then they add these weird sci-fi type characters and to this day I don't understand the point of the albino guy and Japanese lady. So you have this woman who was raped by her father or stepfather and the writer of the movie has her seeing herself as a little girl but you don't know she's seeing herself you think it's a little girl in her class!! How stupid!! On top of that the woman becomes pregnant yet her husband is in Iraq fighting a war and she goes around telling people she's like the Virgin Mary and God planted the baby in her womb!! Huh??!!! So at the end of the movie you learn Keanu reeves partner Joey raped her in the subway the night she sees the albino ghost and she was the one who killed Joey. she stabbed him in the back and pushed him on the tracks. I don't know any grown woman who would get raped, wind up pregnant and not remember any of it to the point you tell people(your dead husbands family) the baby got in her womb supernaturally. This movie was so bad.

just_another_manic_MOMday Seriously, you have to be a special kind of stupid to give this movie a bad rating if you didn't even bother to watch it to the end. And you have to be an even *more* special kind of stupid to be able to NOT keep up with the mix between Spanish and English. It is common for Hispanics and Latinos to use a mix of English and Spanish when speaking, especially when in mixed company or when they have grown up in an English-speaking country, like, say, America, where the setting of this film is located. Seriously, if you get confused just by the language, I don't understand how you've survived this long.As far as the plot goes, it was truly riveting and cleverly put together. This movie is like a giant puzzle--the bigger picture isn't clearly revealed until the end for you folks with below-average IQs. I figured out the story well before the end due to the whole "Elisa" scenario, but I was still very interested to see how the film makers were going to explain it in the context of the film, and I wasn't disappointed.You won't be disappointed, either, if you a) are smart enough to keep up with what's going on in the movie and b) are patient enough to see the big reveal in the end.