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Megan (Jennifer Day) is attacked in a parking garage and thrown into
the trunk of a car that then drives off - but there is a two-way radio
installed in the trunk, so she is at least able to talk to her kidnapper
(David Blanchard) - but he uses the thing to listen in on her and play mindgames with her,
like by telling her what he's going to do with her and the like (and it
ain't pretty). Anyways, she soon tries to crawl into his brain as well, to
see what makes him tick (the usual, childhood abuse and the like), and
finally she decides to fuck with his brain by destroying the speaker (thus
she can't hear him and let him fuck with her mind anymore) and
use the microphone to really turn him on before destroying it as well -
which leaves him no choice but to open his trunk and ... get what's coming
to him, as Megan puts him out of commission using her hairspray and a
crowbar, then she locks him into his own trunk ... One of these
movies set in a confined space (mainly the trunk and the car's driver's
seat) that desperately tries to be clever building up its whole story via
dialogue. And I give the film that much, it really tells a story using
little more than dialogue. The problem though is that it doesn't tell a
very interesting story, rather a formulaic tale of a serial killer, and
the dialogue lacks any real wit or even original ideas to lift the movie
above its humble plotline. Add to this a couple of actors who might be
adequate but are by no means special and a directorial effort that lacks
any and all imagination and inventiveness, and you are left with a
mediocre piece of genre cinema which the fresh approach doesn't
make one bit better (or worse).
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