A disappointing thriller from director Mikael Håfström with two badly miscast stars in Clive owen and Jennifer Aniston.
When Chicago businessman Charles Schine (Clive Owen) indulges in an illicit affair with fellow commuter Lucinda Harris (Jennifer Aniston) things take a turn for the worse when they are confronted at a hotel room by a psychotic gunman (Vincent Cassell) who assaults them and begins a blackmail campaign. A bizarre setup for a thriller, more so because it’s still hard to buy Aniston in a serious role like this after Friends and all the romantic comedies she’s done in recent years. However, the problems lie a lot deeper. It isn’t just the predictable plot twists (which become progressively ridiculous as the film reaches its climax) but the tone of the film is all over the place, veering wildly the cheesy setup to the darker scenes of violence. Why on earth the newly formed Weinstein Company chose schlocky TV movie material like this for their maiden film is hard to fathom. (Buena Vista, 15)