I have never played the computer game and haven't read the comic series yet, but after watching this movie, I will surely try to check both things out! It is true that this movie has many similarities to The Bourne series and that many films have the same concept and that's the reason why I don't give this movie a top rating.

But the story is well thought, there are many nice action elements, a lot of tension, some surprises and a little twist in the ending. The acting is well done, especially by the bad boys, but not outstanding. The movie is well directed and has some really good images and the dialogues are also well composed unlike many other films of the genre, you can really see that there has been some budget in this movie and that it is a high quality product. It is sad that the movie hasn't been in every country's cinemas though. I watched the about 180 minutes long version in one shot as it came out on DVD and I didn't find a single minute of boredom in the film what is quite exceptional.

In conclusion, this movie is more creative than many other similar movies with the same ideas and very entertaining so that I can't understand most of the negative critics. This movie is nothing revolutionary, but still one of the best of its kind.

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

This movie is one of my favourite horror movies. The movie is short and sweet. It has an intense atmosphere. The actors are all doing an amazingly outstanding job, especially the great Ray Wise. There are many surprising elements and details about the characters that will get unveiled throughout the film and create more profound and credible personalities as in many other horror movies. The movie has a dark and shocking atmosphere, some gore scenes, but not too many in the beginning to leave us with an uneasy doubt. The movie also has a great sense of humour, but not too much, some quotes have a really dry and charming humour.

The greatest thing about this movie is its double twisted ending that will make you think about this finale for quite a long while as there are many possible solutions and analysis to make. What has been real, what has been imagination and if it was real, what have been the reasons that led to the upcoming nightmare. I have my own personal theory of the movie, you should not continue to read this, if you haven't seen this movie yet.

Attention: Spoiler! I think that the nightmare has been reality. The woman with the kid (maybe the driver's first victim, his unfaithful wife and now his assisting phantom) and the driver of the mysterious car are punishing and avenging people who have been lying in their lives. Every one had a lie or a crime that he has been hiding from the others. The mother has slept with her husband's friend and her son isn't her husband's son. The father has had sexual relations with another woman because his wife couldn't satisfy him. The son is smoking pot and a pervert. Only the crime of the daughter's boyfriend isn't clear, but he may force his girlfriend to get married and she feels extremely uneasy about this as we can discover in the film. I think that the mysterious woman in white with the dead baby doesn't punishes the daughter because she has been herself in a similar situation with her baby and once tragically died because of something or someone that we don't know. Maybe she was married to the driver, had a baby with him, but didn't love him and committed suicide or was killed by him as he discovered that she wasn't honest or faithful to him and her husband later understood it all and died too. That could be a reason why she does understand the situation of the daughter and wants to give her a chance to start all over again. The driver and the woman in white make her wake up in a hospital and make her belief that everyone died in a car accident so that the daughter can start a new life.

Maybe I am completely wrong with my analysis, but I just wanted to share this with you. I think that no other horror movie that I know had such an amazing ending. No matter what your idea or conclusion is, I am certain that you will enjoy this creative, intense and short horror movie.

When I heard about a modern past-war movie that would settle in destroyed and desperate Germany that was turned in intense black and white images and would include actors like George Clooney, I was really looking forward to this movie. Well, I guess I expected a little bit too much.

The story has surely some interesting points and is also quite realistic, but somehow very difficult to follow. The actors mostly play without any emotions, especially George Clooney is doing a horribly weak job and the cold-hearted and not very credible Cate Blanchett isn't much better. Only Tobey Maguire as a hectic, emotional and unexperienced military guy who falls in love with a mysterious German "femme fatale" does a convincing job.

Another minor detail that personally annoyed me is the fact that most of the actors that are trying to speak German are doing a horrible job, especially Cate Blanchett is not very easy to understand. As a native speaker I know that German is a very difficult language, but this film wants desperately be as atmospheric, precise and realistic as possible, so the actors should have had the help of some good German teachers for the few dialogues they do in German. The Gemran dialogues seem because of this lack of professionalism almost inaudible and silly.

From an aesthetic point of view, the movie has a great atmosphere because it is turned in black and white what fits to the desperate and dark situation after the war and some camera shootings are also well done and directed. But this is sadly not enough to make this slow-paced and emotionless movie entertaining enough, even for a German or someone who is interested in history like me.

To keep it short, the images and the atmosphere of the movie are well done, but the story and the acting could have been way better.

Although this is low budget thriller with some little goofs, I found this movie extremely entertaining and surprising.

Val Kilmer might have become a slow and fat guy, but he is still a very charismatic and talented actor and is credible in his role as a hesitating and nervous doctor who becomes more and more determined to find the pieces of a mysterious and complicated puzzle even if he could have played his role with a little bit more emotions. The charming and beautiful Izabelle Miko does also a great job as a "femme fatale" and double-agent in troubles. Bulgaria is an interesting shooting place for this movie and presents us a little bit of a foreign culture and city.

Concerning the story line, this movie has several surprises and is sometimes difficult to follow with all its intrigues, conspiracies and double-agents. I think that the story is well elaborated and deserves us some surprises and twists. That's maybe why many people don't understand the goals of some organizations. But if you watch this movie with more attention again and do not concentrate on the question if the cars are more recent than 1992 when the story is settled (who really cares) or if several criminals speak in Russian (by the way, it is logical that especially the Russian criminals tried to get a better life elsewhere after the downfall of communism and the creation of many "new" countries), you might understand more and more all the details and connections in this well done agent movie.

This movie is surely nothing innovating or extremely suspenseful, but good entertainment and a twisted and surprising movie with two interesting main actors.

One friend of mine, who was normally likes movies that I like, absolutely wanted to show me this movie and said that it would be a funny and very gore horror movie that wouldn't not take itself serious at all. My friend had presented me "Shaun of the dead" and I liked the mixture of horror and comedy in this movie. I also like "Scary movie" and "Final destination", horror movies that go into a funny and ridiculous direction. I even saw movies from the legendary Ed Wood such as "Bride of the monster" or "Plan 9 from outer space" and I thought that they were trashy, but very charming and atmospheric somehow. I think that I can consider myself as an open-minded person that finds this genre of horror comedy at least interesting.

I am really sorry to say this, but this movie is just complete rubbish. I know that this movie wants to joke about serious horror movies but after the first two or three sketches and the first ten minutes of surprising absurdity of this film, the whole thing is just not funny any more and you are waiting that there is some development, something original, something crazy to come, but that isn't the case. The childish jokes are repeated within the eighty minutes of the movie and become really annoying. The acting is particularly bad, the substance of ideas is running low, the dialogs are more than awful, there is nothing shocking or surprising, there are many mistakes in the movie and I could continue this list eternally. I know that those were the intentions of the director, but it is too much of everything and just not funny or entertaining anymore after ten minutes. All the movies that I have mentioned in my introduction are more original and funnier than this piece of garbage. I really tried to laugh, to put myself on a very low and childish level and took some beers during the film in the hope that it would help, but it didn't. It just helped me to almost fall asleep during this so-called cult movie but as I wanted to watch this completely and until the very end, I continued to torture myself. The only other horror movie that I know that is as awful as this one is Rob Zombie's "House of thousand corpses".

Even if some people find this "cult" movie funny and entertaining with its charming trash, I think that this stuff doesn't deserve such a high rating at all, when the other films that I mentioned are mostly rated about at least two points below this movie.