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Good movie but the twist was bad...

posted 9 years ago by aga235
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I passed throught the whole movie trying to guess WHY they have those rooms in the basement.
Sometimes I though that she and her brother were on a romantic relationship, sometimes I though Conrad was actually the father and not the brother... but they came with all that pedophile bs. Trying to "cure" a pedohile?? Really?
The movie reminded me sometimes "The Panic Room". It was very interesting, but the end was bad.
And I'm not eveing talking about her miraculous cure of the agoraphobia at the end

[–] brewz 9 years ago

They should have just made her character pure evil and turned the entire movie into a lengthy revenge "they picked the wrong house" scenario. They had the right idea with the Legend of Zelda style traps but failed to follow through.

Or maybe I just described Saw... shrug.

[–] rsmith-97435 9 years ago

I agree! Ithink all that pedophile and other weak background info crap made the movie worse. It would have been better if she just went full out evil on them.. Those guys acted like they were wronged and she was the one who started it all, even though they are the ones who initiated the violence by breaking in her home while she was mourning with intent to kill and rob her!

[–] PopperTheKungFu-Dragon 9 years ago

Yeah. I agree. The pedophile story was weak.

Poorly Lived and Poorly Died, Poorly Buried and No One Cried

[–] songod-95003 9 years ago

I thought that was going to be the angle too... she was housebound but hardly defenseless. The whole reason "why" was an unnecessary distraction. It created too many unanswered questions and a lot of plausibility issues.

[–] ThoseLittleRabbits 8 years ago

EXACTLY. wasted storyline

i've got feelings too, ya know - inbetweeners

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[–] shangra86 9 years ago

I could live with the pedo thing. But the end ruined this movie. It should have ended with her answering the door for another food delivery from a different guy or something of that nature.

[–] TheBeardedWonder 9 years ago

The whole ending is lazy as hell. He finally gets out but then goes back in. A guy with a broken leg who had bone popping out is now walking around fit as a fiddle. She has agoraphobia and has a panic attack when throw outside but then just walks right out with no problems at the end.

It had promise, and isn't the worst movie I've ever seen or anything, but the writing really craps out in the ending.

[–] Stovepipe99 8 years ago

I was shocked when they ended up exploring the basement, because for about the first 25-30 minutes I thought that the twist was that they were going to find the father (still alive) being held captive in the basement. I thought that the idea was that her agoraphobia/not wanting to leave the house was going to turn out to be related to not wanting to leave her brother alone with the dad (who had obviously abused her/them), or being worried about the dad escaping. Even though there were mentions of the dad dying, I thought maybe they'd somehow faked it.

For the longest time I even thought that the basement was the remnants of them holding the dad hostage. The whole thing of them having killed several people felt like it came out of nowhere.

I liked the movie well enough, and I didn't mind the whole turning-the-tables element. But the elaborate traps (those retracting stairs!!!) and the binder-of-pervs were distracting and took me out of thinking of them as characters.

[–] psychopathyrd 8 years ago

The miraculous Agoraphobia recovery was the worst, and an insult to people with that disorder. Dare I say it actually kind of pissed me off.