Chat and Dead

There are a lot of terrible thrillers out there, but this lifeless mess is particularly awful.

I'm not sure if the filmmakers' contempt towards their audience is bigger than towards their characters or the other way around, but both are surely treated as if they were idiots of the highest order. The protagonists' behaviour is more than a bit idiotic and the supposed suspense scenes are just as sleep-inducing as the lame attempts to generate erotic tension between an enervating Berry and a disinterested Willis.

The actors either go through the motions or overact badly while the plot succeeds miraculously in being both too predictable and too far-fetched at once with half-hearted red herrings that are fishy indeed.

The twist ending is silly instead of shocking and leaves one wondering what all the fuss was about and why anyone should care about the outcome of this lethargic turkey.

2 out of 10 burnt eye pupils


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