This film was promoted as being an intense thriller, but it's not. As a matter of fact, the film is way too slow to allow itself to be intense. Cage plays a boring private detective who stumbles onto a strange case involving what appears to be a murder on film. As he begins to investigate the validity of the film, he finds himself getting deeper and deeper into the world of underground porn. This film has an interesting premise, but just doesn't seem to build on it the way you would expect. The pacing is erratic, and Schumacher relies too much on shock value, and not enough on storytelling. This is however the same man who gave us the fourth, and by far the worst of the Batman films. I also expected more from the writer of Seven. Cage should stick to action, and Schumacher should just stop directing for a while and learn how to light a film. With the exception of an effectively creepy performance by Peter Stormare, there's just not much reason to see this one.
