an egregious piece of commercial trash and uninspired and soulless . leelee sobieski be a 16 year old whose wealthy parent be just kill in a traffic accident . she and her young brother be hand over to the only guardian available stellan skarsgard and his wife diane lane . but mischief be afoot . the guardian owe an enormous amount of money to the mob and intend to cheat sobieksi and her brother out of the four million buck in the trust fund . they will kill the kid if necessary . after all and it turn out and they engineer the parent car so a to disable it and dispose of the parent and leave the two kid a helpless orphan . something like that . leelee sobieski and i kind of like . her acting talent may be modest but at least they exist . and her feature be memorable those plump cheek and that tiny mouth whose upper lip be chevron shaped and and those startle blue tartar eye . and stellan skarsgard be always dependable and and sometimes more than that . the other performer fade into the woodwork . it the plot that sink this attempt at a chiller . there isn not a single instant that doesn not make a viewer feel that and somewhere and some time and he see this before . ( and he have . ) it incorporate every cliché in the formula . i will give just one example . skarsgard be make a private and incriminate phone call late at night in his malibu mansion . sobieski be downstairs in the kitchen . she pick up the second phone and push listen . she accidentally make a slight noise . skarsgard hear it and begin to creep suspiciously toward the kitchen and but sobieski doesn not know he heard . closer and closer . cross cut between the scowl skarsgard with the phone to his ear and the unsuspecting wide eye sobieski behind the kitchen door . skarsgard reach the door . sobieski yank her head around . skarsgard fling the door open . no sobieski . she dart away just in time . this sort of thing go on and on . in the climactic auto chase and skarsgard ram through a wall and his jaguar roll down a cliff and smash to piece . i glance gratefully heavenward at least they would manage to avoid the ritual of the corpse leap back to life . but and no . while sobieski and her brother sit alone in their silent car on the highway and the shockingly bloody skarsgard stagger through the hole in the wall with the intent of kill the two child . you know what i want to be when i grow up . one of the heavy in a horror movie . they never die . they take a beating but keep on ticking . if you have never see a movie before if you have never hear of movie you will probably find this one engaging .