Amnesiac

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It's a badly written, directed, and acted rip off of Stephen King's Misery. At first you think the movie may be salvageable, probably deserves more than the two, to two and a half stars it was given...until you watch it. The acting by the stories main protagonist (Kate Bosworth) is dull to say the least. It's almost as if Bosworth tried so hard, her performance goes full circle, right back to mediocre. There's a calm demeanor in the character that you as the viewer are supposed to find intriguing, but again, it's far too over done to be anything short of annoying. She is a walking encyclopedia of Jeapordy answers. Which, is supposed to add to the mystery of the character and the plot, but in the end falls flat, because the plot fails to explain why. The general pace is so slow, the plot is so needlessly drawn out, that it begins to feel like more of a nuisance to sit through to the finish, rather than a thrill-ride. There is a slight twist at the end of the movie, but it's not enough to carry the film above the two star rating. I have nothing against Kate Bosworth, personally. But, if she ever decides to do another role like this, she needs desperately to seek acting lessons from Kathy Bates.

I watched this movie and I wish I hadn't. That's one of the best things that could be said about this poor excuse for cinema. It's just so poorly done in almost every regard, that describing it still wouldn't do justice to how spectacularly it fails. The poor excuse for a story was neither clever nor unique, and it made zero attempts are carving a new niche in the genre. It's Misery if it were written by the lady who wrote 50 Shades of Gray. It is just a wannabe of a much better film, with a horrible script and poor acting. The actors are nice to look at (for the most part), but the casting was done solely as a superficial attempt to mask the inadequacies of everyone else involved. Putting pretty people in your lead only serves to highlight all of the other garbage hiding beneath the surface. The movie tries so hard to be a mystery, a thriller, a horror movie, but it failed at every one. How could you fail so spectacularly when you have 3 distinct genres to choose from? There was no blood, no sex, no gore, and I counted one use of the F-bomb, but other than that, the movie was neither suspenseful of thrilling. I have seen more horrific events happen on television. I just don't see whom this film was made for. It's too tame for horror fans, too sophomoric for mystery fans, and way to slow for fans of the thriller genre. So what were they thinking? They could have made this movie a bit more palatable if they didn't treat the audience like a bunch of sensitive babies. These days, it takes a lot to stand out in the horror genre. This movie will be forgotten, deservedly so, but it didn't have to be. It had everything going for it, and just decided to not make use of any of it. This was a phoned in effort, through and through, and I just wouldn't recommend it to anyone, regardless of how bored you may be. A shame and a disappointment.

This could be one of the worst movies I have ever seen, and one of the biggest wastes of time. There are no names given to any of the characters other than one, whom you don't meet until the last 25 minutes. Throughout the movie, the plot is very repetitive: man wakes up groggy, goes downstairs where he shouldn't, wife tells him to rest, he is punished. The story line could not be more predictable. Along with tragic cinematography, the lighting never changes and there is rarely focus on anything. Overall this movie made me want to be the amnesiac.