Kara Unger speelt een van de hoofdrollen, en dat is altijd goed. Maar deze film gooit in feite alles weg waar hij zo hard voor heeft gewerkt. De eerste 30 minuten zijn behoorlijk boeiend (op een 'Dark City'-achtige manier, 'Matrix'-achtige manier) en de decors en personages zijn intrigerend. Dan beginnen de zaken in het honderd te lopen.<br />***SPOILER ALERT**.<br /><br />Als je de actie vrij goed bekijkt, zie je de hele plot van de film minstens drie keer in de eerste tien minuten voor je. Ik verwachtte steeds dat de film met een soort verrassing zou eindigen, maar dat was niet zo. Dit totale gebrek aan spanning droeg aanzienlijk bij aan mijn gebrek aan plezier. <br />**** ******_**************************************************************************************************************************_********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** ****************************************** ************************************************************** ******************************************
Kara Unger co-stars, and that's always good. But this film basically throws away everything it works so hard to achieve. The first 30 minutes or so are fairly engrossing (in a "Dark City", "Matrix", "Strange Days" sort of way) and the settings and characters are intriguing. Then things start to go down the tubes.<br /><br />*****SPOILER ALERT <br /><br />If you are watching the action fairly closely, you will see the entire plot of the movie foreshadowed at least three times in the first ten minutes. I kept expecting that the movie would end with some sort of surprise, but it didn't. This complete lack of suspense contributed significantly to my lack of enjoyment.<br /><br />*****END SPOILER <br /><br />Eventually, the art-house pretentiousness just wears you down. The plot has a few high points and there's a little bit of titillation, but not much else to keep your interest past the halfway point. By the one-hour mark, I just didn't care about any of the characters and (since I knew what the underlying plot point was) I just sort of gave up.<br /><br />To give the director and crew some due, the film definitely has a "look" that belies the small budget. The apartment house is suitably odd, as are all the tenants. Sisto does a good job with what he's given.<br /><br />Still, I thought this would be more worthwhile than it was.