> "Must be extremely satisfying to hear yourself say something so heroic! I'm almost envious. The boy's in pieces under the bed." This starts off so good then just gets lost in odd directing choices. The story is interesting and Ben Kingsley is pretty terrifying but I wish it was a little less fever dream and more focused.

This movie would've been a 10. The script was great. Kingsley was fantastic. The rest of the cast was really good. Even most of the editing was pretty decent. But the directing sucked. The lighting and musical choices were terrible. The angles of most of the shots tried too hard to be reminiscent of Hitchcock or Wells. Seemed like a junior director's first shot. Just completely the wrong director. Paramount needs to try again. Unfortunately won't work with Kingsley a second time. Shamalyn or Keopp with Bale or Phoenix as Mac and DeNiro, Hackman or Plummer. Problem was probably Cruise as one of the producers. They were likely stuck using Scientologists for everything, which would've been fine except for the really sucky directing.

it was just a waste of time . the acting was just hard to watch .

A curious but true theory about serial killers.