Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Mcc8007 This gets a 5 only because Firth's and Bacon's performances could make any movie seem good. Still, I'm surprised that actors of their caliber would appear in a movie like this. Their performances were brilliant, but the writing was all over the place with some really dull lines. This movie could have been a whole lot better with a more artful screenplay and someone (ANYONE) other than Allison Lohman playing the lead. She is the most expressionless "actress" I have ever seen. She played the part in this film with the same affect as she used in "White Oleander." It worked in that part, but not in this one. And, the writing. Really? NO writer who was good enough to be given a $1 million story would take drugs with the subject of her book. And the whole airplane "coincidence" was ridiculous.Firth's and Bacon's performances would have made a multi-award-winning movie with a little more attention to script editing and a better actress playing the journalist. Think of how good this movie would have been with Jennifer Lawrence in it.

Chase_Witherspoon Lots of huff and puff but little suspense in this star-lined retro-conspiracy with intrepid celebrity reporter (Lohman) delving into the cold case of the death of a hotel maid (Blanchard) whose body was discovered in a freezer accompanying celebrity duo Lanny (Bacon) and Vince (Firth). There's one scene that will more than likely make you gasp, plenty of bare butts, exposed racks and simulated sexual encounters as Bacon and Firth engage in a multitude of debaucheries that eventually lead to their professional demise.Hayman plays the type of role in which a Pete Postlethwaite would have excelled, his character omnipresent, but never quite able to shine in the shadow of mega-egos like Firth and Bacon both vying for most decadent leading man honours (I'm going to go with Firth's performance for reasons that will become obvious if you watch the film). Blanchard is the body beautiful but with few other attributes on display, she transforms from meek maid into vivacious vixen and then expert extortionist with little provocation (which might be a script weakness). Lohman looked more suited to the Nickelodeon age group than that of the sage, wise owl reporter she was attempting to play.It's an odd movie, highly detailed and stylised but ultimately lacking a strong narrative structure, promising more than it delivers.

Hitchcoc This is one of those movies that gets under your skin. You want to be away from it, but you have to keep watching. Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon have a good gig going. Not only are they really talented; they are highly respected. Ask Macbeth what happened. When you start to toy with the what-if's, you can often get yourself in deep circumstances. What the film moves toward is the clash of personalities and their inevitable undoing and a sick subtext that makes them more than human. They are able to come through danger time after time, but have sold their souls. It's the secret that they have to carry with them. Once the course is charted, it plays out like a tragedy. Once again, I'm able to sustain interest because two of our best contemporary actors are in charge.

dick-235-528894 Here's the 30-second pitch: Egoyan tries to do David Lynch doing Raymond Chandler, falls flat on face. Bacon and Firth are excellent, Lohman is terrible, the worst miscasting I've seen for decades. The plot is incomprehensible not because of complexity but rotten editing. The sex is good, and the lobsters deliver.With a better screenplay it could have been a great film in the class of LA Confidential, The Big Sleep or Mulholland Drive - that it fails so comprehensively must cast doubt on Egoyan's ability as a director, since the cast (apart from Alison Lohman) deliver really good performances, and it looks fabulous throughout. It feels to me as if Egoyan's avant-garde past prevented him from engaging with the requirements of a whodunnit plot. I was so confused that I had to look up the plot on my smartphone even while watching the movie, something that I've never, ever done before. That's how much I wanted to like it.