Fans "grit" their teeth and wrestle with the "strong central" question: is this movie full of "good creepy", "great" "creepy", "fairly creepy", "kind of creepy you write home about", just plain "creepy", or "fabulously slimy"?

[whoooa] Keanu apparently agreed to do this movie as a favor to a friend, but that doesn't mean he couldn't have agreed to do it for other reasons: it's well-written with strong central characters and offers him a chance to play the bad guy, which he does with admirable grit.

Carla

[whooooa] Yes, Keanu has played the bad guy in a number of movies, but there have been none (so far) in which he is as creepy as he is in this one. But, because he is so Keanu, he pulls it off great. It is not the Crispin or Dennis creepy that we have come to expect from so many of the films we have seen. No, no, this is a good creepy; the kind of creepy you write home about. Keanu counters James Spader's character wonderfully, and the cast is filled out with Marisa Tomei and Ernie Hudson. How can you go wrong?

Jeff

[whoooa] Sure, this is a fairly creepy serial killer picture, but it does its thing pretty well. Keanu plays another "bad guy" (dueling it out with the ever fabulously slimy "good guy" James Spader). Keanu does get to chew through the scenery (kinda) with some tremendously hammy dialogue. Not a great movie, doesn't tread any new ground, but succeeds in being an effective genre film. Only movie where Keanu clearly seems to ("clearly seems to" is a phrase of certainty, isn't it?) die with the inability to play Death in Twister to get a chance to not be dead any more (also not counting whatever happens to him at the end of "Matrix: Revolting" - he might just be taking a nap at the end of that, not sure, think I was napping too).

Mett

James Spader
Joel Campbell

Marisa Tomei
Dr. Polly Bielman

Ernie Hudson
Ibby

Chris Ellis
Hollis

Scott Benjaminson
Guest

Mike Bacarella
(uncredited)