Bad Writing, Poor direction.
27 August 2005
Warning: Spoilers
My problem with this movie is that it tries too hard.

It is neither thriller no suspenseful as it intended to be.

Can you say predictable?? It tries to take twists and turns but any intelligent viewer has figured them out before the movie actually gets to them.

1. Halle Berry's character says she doesn't need to speak with an attorney.

Only an idiot would make a remark like that sitting in jail facing a murder one rap.

2. Plot hole.

We see Halle Berry in one scene playing with the gun that would eventually kill her husband. Now if she had nothing to do with it as she claimed, how did Peter Greene's character get the exact same gun? I'm not even a cop and I could have figured that one out.

When Berry's Jeep breaks down in the middle of nowhere, there is no other car behind her. Greene just shows up out of the blue. Come on!!? Mainly the conversation between Cole Wilson (Greene) and Jake Golden (Clive Owen) How can Berry's character tell the story for scenes she wasn't even in? We learn that supposedly Golden hired Cole to do a simple hit and not even talk to Josie (Berry), but he became attracted to her.

How can she tell how the murder occurred if she was not there or had nothing to do with it? And when Berry discovers Jake's involvement, this is no surprise as we already knew this! Jake's ex-wife had something to do with it obviously because she was always taking up for Josie.

This movie just has bad pot holes and flaws.

If you're going to do a murder-for-hire "Don't be seen with the killer in public" Dumb writing, even dumber acting.

And this cast is generally a very talented set of actors, too bad they had to follow this piece of crap of a script.
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