I would have loved to see Affleck's character's darkside come out more but it didn't. And that left me somewhat unsatisfied. The way Jessica Alba's character was smashed up was also very weird to me as Alba was expressionless. There weren't enough fear in her eyes when she knew she was about to die, nor pain as she was attacked. But one thing I was sure of, she needed to do this movie more than this movie needed her presence because any other actress would have sufficed. Kate Hudson however was adequate with her portrayal; but the impression I got from both the female leads were that they were naive and insecure. Not that different from each other, strangely enough. A different dynamic from two different charcters could have been more interesting.
It was good to see Bill Pullman once again after so many years but he only had such a small role in this.
But I guess what caused the whole confusion inside me was the intention of each character in the story escaped me. I couldn't really follow the slow-paced storyline, and though as beautifully and as realistically crafted as it was, I didn't get a lot of the scenes. And maybe this was just me. Maybe I wasn't ready for the complexity of the story if it was there to begin with.
Still, as a film, it was not easy to sit through and that was already half the battle lost.
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