Somehow this uneven disturbing drama keeps your interest even though it has flat and drab acting and a clumsy plot. A satisfying ending would've saved the film completely but it failed miserably in that department. As a matter of fact, the film literally ends as if they ran out of production budget but I doubt that is true because it runs a full 2 hours. The film is purposefully ambiguous and plays with the question of what would happen if psychopaths meet each other. This cat and mouse play is actually successful. It's also successful at studying the true life mental disorder of Munchausen syndrome. The two main characters display this syndrome in horrific ways. Where it falls flat is in the attempt to wrap up a complex story with the most elementary and lazy ending ever. It was almost like the writer was purposefully sabotaging the film. A lot of people compared it a Hitchcock film but to me it reminded of Brain De Palma lesser films. Actually this film plays better as a satire of De Palma films but I doubt that was its intent.
