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It wasn't a horrible movie, I felt it just couldn't find it's place, yet Nicolas Cage did fantastically (after getting over the whole , what the hell, he's playing a Romanian thing) But, I became thoroughly annoyed by it just form the opening credits. It wasn't(as some have said) that the graphics were bad, it was just not what you would expect from a film that has been labelled as 'indie'. It was what would be seen in a second rate action movie, it reminded me of something Vin Diesel was in, obviously a bad sign, or even worse a stupid little Michael Bay trick. It for me started the picture off horribly, and gave me the idea that I couldn't like the rest of the movie, yet the film itself wasn't strong enough to overcome these early downfalls.

I watched the whole of this movie last night, and I managed the first forty-five minutes by laughing at it but after that wears off it becomes a really really dull movie, with very predictable events. It may be a homage to old '50's B-Movies, but those can actually be 'scary' or at least interesting, and don't use graphics they cannot pull off (usually). This movie however uses bad graphics that they cannot maintain so cover up or don't show again! The sound appeared to be dubbed (which made me think it was a foreign film for a while, which could have been an excuse), however this was not the case and it just turned out to be really annoying. The parts of the movie 'filmed' through 'sheps' video camera were a nice touch, but having half the movie filmed like that seems cheap and tacky.