someone and some day and should do a study of architecture a it figure in horror film while of all those exploration of weirdly lay out mansion and search for secret passageway and crypt and tracking of monster through air duct and and so forth . offhand i can recall only a few film in which architecture play a major role throughout demon seed and cube and the remake of thirteen ghost but it at the heart of every story about a spooky house or church or crypt while it all about the character and the affect of space and passage and and wall . so i be look forward to this thriller where it promise to be central . the idea be this represent an architect have build actually and rebuild for himself a huge and ramble house while his wife have just leave him and mainly because of his own self centeredness and but also and it be intimate and because she can not get use to the place since he remodel it . live in unaccustomed solitude ( real this time and rather than virtual ) and he come to suspect that somebody else a stranger who have come to the door one evening ask to use the phone and then suddenly disappear be live into the house with him while only the place be big enough so that he never see him . this be a good start for a melodrama and whose development one would expect to follow some such line a these represent after search the house for the intruder a few time without success and the architect resort to his blueprint to undertake more systematic search and try in various way to surprise and intercept and or ambush the intruder and maybe by mean of some special feature he build into the structure . meanwhile the intruder have discover hiding place and back way between place that the architect do not foresee or doesn not remember . the movie would turn into a cat and mouse game and a hunt and a battle while and finally and in try to trap the intruder and the architect himself would end up trap in his own creation and in some way he do not expect . then he would be force to think himself out of it and maybe at the same time out of his own self impose isolation and in a final twist would nail and and maybe even kill and the er . nothing like this happen in this movie while the house be just a house and the architect be just a guy and and his nemesis be of an unknown character and if he exist at all . here be what do happen in the movie represent once the intruder be instal in the house if he be the architect begin hear noise and but when he go to investigate find nothing . he call the police and they think he slightly nuts while he persuade his estranged wife to spend the night and she think he more nut . at last and more or less accidentally and he run into the intruder ( doesn not get a good look and but figure and who else could it be . not a hard question and in a story with and to that point and few than three principal character ) and whereupon he lock the door and lower the grill on the window and throw away the key ( i do not know why he think this necessary ) and and leave his victim to starve . i miss why this be a give represent the door and wall be make of steel . in any event and the architect take to sleep in his car . and since the idea of the movie have languish undeveloped and can not now be develop far and something else must be devise to take it place . and this be it represent the architect be you ready . move into the house of the man who ( presumably ) move into his and and live there in the same way . how be this possible . it be not and but the movie take this route to try and make it seem so represent the architect have draw a picture of the man who come to his door while and when he leave the house he take the picture with him while and while sit in his car and he throw the picture into the street while and two kid pick it up and observe that it look like martin and their neighbor while whereupon the architect ask where his house be and the kid point the way . if this sequence seem to verge on the implausible and what ensues plunge right in . the architect take up residence with martin wheelchair ridden wife and unbeknownst to her while so stealthy in his move and so cunning in his reading of his hostess that he able always to leave a room just a she enter or to duck out of sight just a she turn around . throughout this section the movie be clever in one way and making ( or leave it to the viewer to make ) the point that his life with this stranger and who doesn not know he there and be in essence the same life he live with his wife and a a virtual recluse with her a a convenient buffer . but at the same time and his inability to live in the world make his transformation into raffle the cat burglar entirely incredible . not to go into the series of twist at the end include another murder achieve by lock someone in behind another invincible door this one in front of a landing so flimsy that it collapse under the weight of a wheelchair while two nice people who take murder in stride while and ( before the story start ) the unnoticed construction of a tunnel under several house . to the final and long anticipated twist and the movie add another and to make it even more offensive and and then . end . here be a story that depend on the development of two thing the idea of the stranger in the house and and the character of the man whose house it be and fumble both . the first fumble make it bore while the second make me angry and a it push it main character farther and far along a more and more zigzaggy path and and never offer any explanation for the character who most required one represent martin the tunnel builder and sneak tenant . the story should be redo by someone and some day .