Review: Bland and boring film that simply gives you no reason to care about what is going on.
The main problem with this film is the characters. There is never a second when any of them feel real. Our hero (Gina Rodriguez) is the only one that even comes close, but that is just because her fear in the situation is perfectly relatable (and Rodriguez's talent as a performer) and not because of any semblance of personality. Her best friend (Christina Rodlo) can only be viewed as a plot device and not an actual character. The rest of the characters are absolutely horribly written. They seem to do nothing but spout the most cliché dialogue imaginable and move the plot. This gets embarrassingly bad at times and it hard to take so many scenes seriously. This movie at times tries to make the characters morally complex but because you can't take it seriously, this is laughably bad. To make matters worse this film has you watch the main character go through horrible things including sexual harassment. This makes the movie very unpleasant and since this is a movie without any depth, there is nothing to justify this. This movie has twists and turns as you might except from a thriller. Now I have grown used to expecting the twists and turns in this sort of movie, but this film does worse than being predictable. When the twist and turns come, I just plain old didn't care, because the movie gave me no reason to.
Gina Rodriguez may have a future as an action movie star. Her performance here shows her more than capable of carrying this out. However for that to come to be she will need a better vehicle than this. The film is simply clumsy and boring.
This movie was a remake of a Mexican film of the same name. I have not seen that movie, but I am still certain it has to be better than this.
-Michael J. Ruhland
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