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A gyilkos körüli aura a nullával egyenlő, a film szereplői között is csak félig-meddig működik, a feszültség kevesebb, mint gomba a sivatagban, a meglepő végkifejlet pedig önparódia a B-kategóriás videó-thriller szintjén. Nem is beszélve a film "befejezéséről", amit a filmalkotók talán nem is gondoltak komolyan. Az időnként eleredő eső és a jelenlévők langyos arckifejezése hideg és gonosz világ érzetét kelti, de Philip Glass kissé egzotikus zenéjét cseppnyi titokzatosság és sötétség sem övezi. Egyáltalán nem illik a filmhez. Maga a gyilkos utáni nyomozás, amely a film kétharmadát teszi ki, semmilyen forgatókönyvírói ötletet nem tartalmaz, sem fokozódó szorongásérzést. De van benne két "zseblámpás" látogatás sötét helyeken, rendes ijesztgetéssel, de az ijesztgetések ereje arányos azzal, amennyire feleslegesek. Megijedsz, de ha belegondolsz, hogy mi is történt, gondban leszel. D.J. Caruso az Igazság helyett című korábbi drámájában olyan tökéletes formaérzéket mutatott, amelyet itt nem alkalmaz. (2004.04.25)

I don't understand how Caruso managed to become a laid-back hitmaker like Disturbia based on this unsuccessful mess. Angie plays her role well, Hawke excels, and a great cameo in the middle of the film briefly stirs things up, but a thriller without suspense? An action movie with only one chase scene? A psychological crime story without a hint of atmosphere? I'm not interested. Especially since the killer's identity is so obvious that I almost didn't want to believe that I hadn't misjudged it. (2008.05.17)

In the end, it turned out exactly as I expected (and man how those glasses suited him at the end!). But that's fine with me, sometimes movies just turn out the way you think they will. The worst was the lame dialogue. Having the most perfect heroine (Jolie didn't show anything new, it was all old, hackneyed, and bad; all she showed were her tits...) didn't add to the beauty of it either, she was the one who pissed me off the most. All in all, I was thinking this was a movie for the garbage rating. I only gave it a single star for the few moments when I didn't roll my eyes and tell myself the heroine needed to die (after all, she wasn't in the scene most of the time...). (2010.12.09)

A relatively solidly directed film with a few solid twists and turns, an attractive Angelina Jolie, and nothing more we haven't seen elsewhere. (2004.04.23)

This was a huge disappointment. After the first scene, one is excited because it could be something truly good, thrilling, but the tension quickly disappears because the viewer immediately realizes who they are actually looking for. Even the twist at the end, which was equally transparent, doesn't change that. Only the naked Angelina brought it up to those few percent. (2015.01.11)