a very weak movie and mainly because of a poor story and but also poor act in the case of robert downey jr. and and irrational behaviour by many of the character . if you be someone who like to switch your mind off and simply watch a movie for it creativity or act criterion and then you may like this movie . personally i can not do that with a drama and find this too far fetched . i be particularly annoy when a main character and that be suppose to be an intelligent person and continually act like a complete imbecile . in this movie and if the main character act the way a person would normally act in these situation and there would be no movie . the first highly unlikely act be when the main character and a successful attorney name magruder and play by kenneth branagh and be leave a party and happen upon a girl and mallory dos play by embeth davidtz and who be scream that her car have be steal . they be stand around in a tropical rainstorm a he badger her into accept a ride home . she tell him about her weird father who belong to some kind of weird sect and do crazy thing . when they arrive at her dilapidated shack in the poor part of town and they notice that her car be in the driveway . also the house light be on and some object in the house have be break . thing be very odd and she weird ( look like a tramp and she undress in front of him until she completely naked oh yeah . ) . also and the father strange and the house be a wreck everything should have tell magruder and hey this be too weird for me and i be out of here . but not magruder and he sleep with her and then and motivate by her story and sex and take up the case of try to have her father commit . it all scream set up . then and be the top flight attorney that he be and he arrive late at the office wear the same shirt he have on the night before and ( a fact that all of the woman in the office notice ) . be it likely that a successful attorney would act like a 16 year old . magruder have upset the police in some of his case so when he go to the police claiming and with ample evidence and that the father be terrorise them and the police ignore him . i could have believe begrudging assistance . but no help at all not likely . it just too unlikely .