I did enjoy this film to a degree, I like a mystery-thriller and the mystery in this one unravels well, it delivers a satisfyingly slow-burning and eerie tension throughout, but there are a couple of issues, and they're pretty big ones:
1) There's a massive plot hole in that the protagonist's father just leaves her with a secret of an enslaved man trapped down a hole in her garden, with ZERO information surrounding the reason as to why he's even there.
2) I thought the casting was rather odd. Both Lily Collins and Simon Pegg do well in their roles, you see some very nice acting from both of them, but I couldn't help but feel Lily was too 'baby-faced' to be believable as the DA of Manhattan, and Simon, well, it was just weird to see him in such a role to be honest. I found these two casting choices really distracting.
But in spite of those two points, I still enjoyed it. I just sat back, ignored the stupidity, and watched the mystery unravel. It's worth a watch if you're struggling to find something, but there's not really any rewatch value there for me.
1) There's a massive plot hole in that the protagonist's father just leaves her with a secret of an enslaved man trapped down a hole in her garden, with ZERO information surrounding the reason as to why he's even there.
2) I thought the casting was rather odd. Both Lily Collins and Simon Pegg do well in their roles, you see some very nice acting from both of them, but I couldn't help but feel Lily was too 'baby-faced' to be believable as the DA of Manhattan, and Simon, well, it was just weird to see him in such a role to be honest. I found these two casting choices really distracting.
But in spite of those two points, I still enjoyed it. I just sat back, ignored the stupidity, and watched the mystery unravel. It's worth a watch if you're struggling to find something, but there's not really any rewatch value there for me.