I love many of the actors in the movie. While people seem to think that John Cusak's attitude was off, I would have to say it was spot on.
He was playing a cop who believed there was a serial killer but there was no proof and the victims were call girls.
He is getting pressure to remove the case from active to cold as it has been 3 years and he is obsessed. He has a garage filled to the case while he is at home.
The serial killer takes woman and gets them pregnant to make a family. That is fine. He cuts up body parts.
Okay then who takes care of the babies. It has been 3 years of missing woman. Did nobody else make babies? We have some babies here but they are all under 1 how is that possible.
He seems to cycle only in the winter which means he grabs woman then allows them time to have children. Last cycle was last winter so how are these babies so young? One of the girls downstairs had a baby before so there has to be one at least 9 mths old.
The other elephant in the room is who is taking care of the kids? This guy is stalking girls, torturing, raping, and cleaning up his messes but yet the kids are unattended? Nobody hears the kids? Even if it is the girl that is caring for them would that not be obvious.
The other issue I have is his partner. It was not a twist. It really wasn't. It was a bit blatant. When a cop's kid goes missing, people go to the mat for them. If she was not a cop's kid they would have just claimed runaway, but they have a witness that she was taken by someone.
Instead John Cusak's character is constantly being told not to do anything and to go home and rest. Every time clues seemed to make more sense, he was being pressed harder to go home. It made his partner who he had not had for very long, really was not going to the mat for him, and was constantly impeding his work look off. On top of that Cusak is a vet. He has been on the force for 18 years, the way she talks to him you would think she was the vet instead of some new transfer.
The movie did well in showing what it was like for a cop trying to work a case that nobody believes in. It was believable.
The chain of command between his partner did not make sense.
Many of the stuff she did would have fallen apart quickly had Cusak been anywhere near the department.
Jennifer Carpenter's lines were very repetitive and got to the point that it was obvious she was trying to get him out of the way. It would have been nice to see a bit of subtlety.
The serial killer seemed to demonstrate most well. There are multiple examples of how serial killers are not as smart as they seem and are constantly stumbling into messes that they have luck enough to get through (not always sometimes they are caught). His room seemed to say that he knew who was or wasn't a cop but could not tell the difference between a call girl and a kid who just got out of a diner.
By the end of the movie, I have to wonder what the partner will be doing now that it is all over considering she has all of these children with no birth certificates, no ssn, and all of them around the same age. If she is no longer a cop how is she affording that house and those kids.
He was playing a cop who believed there was a serial killer but there was no proof and the victims were call girls.
He is getting pressure to remove the case from active to cold as it has been 3 years and he is obsessed. He has a garage filled to the case while he is at home.
The serial killer takes woman and gets them pregnant to make a family. That is fine. He cuts up body parts.
Okay then who takes care of the babies. It has been 3 years of missing woman. Did nobody else make babies? We have some babies here but they are all under 1 how is that possible.
He seems to cycle only in the winter which means he grabs woman then allows them time to have children. Last cycle was last winter so how are these babies so young? One of the girls downstairs had a baby before so there has to be one at least 9 mths old.
The other elephant in the room is who is taking care of the kids? This guy is stalking girls, torturing, raping, and cleaning up his messes but yet the kids are unattended? Nobody hears the kids? Even if it is the girl that is caring for them would that not be obvious.
The other issue I have is his partner. It was not a twist. It really wasn't. It was a bit blatant. When a cop's kid goes missing, people go to the mat for them. If she was not a cop's kid they would have just claimed runaway, but they have a witness that she was taken by someone.
Instead John Cusak's character is constantly being told not to do anything and to go home and rest. Every time clues seemed to make more sense, he was being pressed harder to go home. It made his partner who he had not had for very long, really was not going to the mat for him, and was constantly impeding his work look off. On top of that Cusak is a vet. He has been on the force for 18 years, the way she talks to him you would think she was the vet instead of some new transfer.
The movie did well in showing what it was like for a cop trying to work a case that nobody believes in. It was believable.
The chain of command between his partner did not make sense.
Many of the stuff she did would have fallen apart quickly had Cusak been anywhere near the department.
Jennifer Carpenter's lines were very repetitive and got to the point that it was obvious she was trying to get him out of the way. It would have been nice to see a bit of subtlety.
The serial killer seemed to demonstrate most well. There are multiple examples of how serial killers are not as smart as they seem and are constantly stumbling into messes that they have luck enough to get through (not always sometimes they are caught). His room seemed to say that he knew who was or wasn't a cop but could not tell the difference between a call girl and a kid who just got out of a diner.
By the end of the movie, I have to wonder what the partner will be doing now that it is all over considering she has all of these children with no birth certificates, no ssn, and all of them around the same age. If she is no longer a cop how is she affording that house and those kids.