The ratio of what's right to what's wrong in this movie is something like 1:5, with the only thing that the director and the script got right was the notion of a woman losing her ability to distinguish faces, even those near and dear to her. What went wrong is just about everything you can think of: acting, plot, the "shocking" identity of the "serial" killer...
Milla Jovovich's character suffers a traumatic head injury whilst trying to flee a particularly heinous serial killer who's terrorizing women. She then loses her ability to recognize faces, including those of her boyfriend and best friends. What's interesting is the way the faces of these people change. What backfired is that some of these changes are so subtle that you don't even realize that the faces have changed till you think about it 5 minutes later and then have to rewind the movie to confirm. Case in point: her Latin friend Nina who manages to look the same in every scene that she's in. What's even weirder is that somehow the face of the detective she meets remains the same, an omen that leads to a tired cliché.
The acting is very sub par. Milla Jovovich hasn't convinced me that she's a good actress and the shining example is when she's in the neurologist's office and manages to recognize the flawed glass stone, which wasn't hard to do given that there's only one in the whole bunch. Milla's facial motions as she "recognizes" the stone are so bad I wondered if this was her first ever movie role. Even worse is Julian McMahon who starts of by being a complete insensitive idiot in the first meeting with Milla's victimized character. Normally a police detective would employ tact and manners to make a person feel calm and relaxed but this is the opposite...and he hasn't got any facts about what happened to Milla, which makes you wonder what sort of detective he is.
The plot of the serial killer was just plain stupid. A guy who wants to play games with the one person who could possibly identify him? There's no surprise as to his identity and you can even make a simple correct guess before the half way point. You don't even have to see the movie to make the guess. Just close your eyes and let the answer come to you.
All in all, not a movie to recommend. Bad acting, bad plot and just a bad waste of time.
Milla Jovovich's character suffers a traumatic head injury whilst trying to flee a particularly heinous serial killer who's terrorizing women. She then loses her ability to recognize faces, including those of her boyfriend and best friends. What's interesting is the way the faces of these people change. What backfired is that some of these changes are so subtle that you don't even realize that the faces have changed till you think about it 5 minutes later and then have to rewind the movie to confirm. Case in point: her Latin friend Nina who manages to look the same in every scene that she's in. What's even weirder is that somehow the face of the detective she meets remains the same, an omen that leads to a tired cliché.
The acting is very sub par. Milla Jovovich hasn't convinced me that she's a good actress and the shining example is when she's in the neurologist's office and manages to recognize the flawed glass stone, which wasn't hard to do given that there's only one in the whole bunch. Milla's facial motions as she "recognizes" the stone are so bad I wondered if this was her first ever movie role. Even worse is Julian McMahon who starts of by being a complete insensitive idiot in the first meeting with Milla's victimized character. Normally a police detective would employ tact and manners to make a person feel calm and relaxed but this is the opposite...and he hasn't got any facts about what happened to Milla, which makes you wonder what sort of detective he is.
The plot of the serial killer was just plain stupid. A guy who wants to play games with the one person who could possibly identify him? There's no surprise as to his identity and you can even make a simple correct guess before the half way point. You don't even have to see the movie to make the guess. Just close your eyes and let the answer come to you.
All in all, not a movie to recommend. Bad acting, bad plot and just a bad waste of time.