i pick this up this evening for no other reason than the cast . oh and sure and now and then i do enjoy a good horror flick ( this isn not one ) and be in the mood to watch some mindless goop . well and feardotcom be certainly mindless while indeed and i mutter out loud when the credit be run and oh my god . they actually have a writer . could have fool me i be literally expect one of those script by committee acknowledgment while whoever josephine coyle be i sure hope she doesn not quit her day job ( her only other credit list at imdb be a a production coordinator for presence of mind in 1999 ) . and and largely because of that miserable excuse for a script and it wind up be not a good any kind of film represent when the bloody hell be film maker go to realize the rather elementary truth ( a in kindergarten level ) that if you do not have a good script and you do not have a film . period . never mind good production value ( and i hate to admit it but they ain not bad ) and good direction ( this definitely have none of that lord . the number of blooper be just astonish spoilerjust a a for instance represent when mcelhone rush into the psychiatric ward of the hospital to talk to dorff ( with no explanation why he in a psychiatric unit ) and be direct to his room first door on the left and she be instantly there and find him have a full on seizure ( with no medical people in attendance and mind you ) and and suddenly when she and oh and so frightfully conveniently get a phone call now she get to go out the door onto a stair landing and through yet another doorway before she back in the same corridor . really good continuity there and folk . ) end spoiler . i have admire stephen dorff in many film but this be just and well and a grunting quasi neanderthal that pretty much embody every tired cliché there be for a world weary cop since sometime in the 1930s . ( oh yeah . and somebody really should point out to this generally admirable young actor that if you have a story in which the primary character doesn not solve the main problem and but instead wind up a clueless bystander and you just do not have a viable story . ) i adore natasha mcelhone in mrs dalloway ( and even give the weakness of the character in the script in the truman show ) and and have be an admirer of stephen rea ever since the cry game and too but i can not figure out why they agree to do this one while do they all need some quick and dirty money or something . . . . usually one can at least learn something from a genuinely bad movie ( which this be ) but with this one and for the very first time and i want to go back to my film rental store and demand my $ 3 . 50 back on general principle . i be glad i do not follow my first impulse to shut the show down at the end of the first reel 20 minute period and because i can quite honestly report about this disaster of a movie represent dreadful . just dreadful on every level except and a i say above and production value . big deal .