Not since "Saw" has a movie made me put down the snacks. Each of the characters has reacted to life trauma in a different way, none particularly well -- you can't help but want to slap every one of them at some point. Terrific performance by Brendan Fraser.

It was hard to tell if this movie was too smart for the casual audience, or just trying too hard pretending to be. The characters were original, the acting was solid, and the production as a whole seemed to do justice to what was trying to be presented. However, knowing it was based on a play up front may help peel back some of the seemingly unnecessary intellectualism scattered throughout. The movie repeatedly throws literary motifs at the audience that only vaguely stick. It also ceaselessly plays with character motives like good vs evil, intellectual vs wise, and selfish vs selfless. In other stories this may come across as revealing or developing characters, but here it sometimes came across as deliberately misleading.