While in Blockbuster I saw this movie on the shelf and it looked pretty entertaining. I thought, like the movie 10 Things I Hate About You, it was a modern remake of an older story- in this case, the life story I had in mind was the Elephant Man. (*Spoilers are probably ahead, as I cannot make my point without making examples*) However, it is not really the case. The film opens with a rather cheesy monologue from "the monster." A woe-is-me kind of deal. The characters are pretty black and white. "He's good." "She's bad." The lead character, played by Sarah Polley, is an extremely innocent young woman whom everyone seems to push around. She is assigned to find the monster, and in a small voiceover she says she couldn't get a taxi because the bridge was threatened by terrorists, and shortly after she is mugged-sort of- more specifically, the woman who mugs her applies lipstick to her lips. She then boards a plane which crashes, leaving her as the sole survivor, and everyone thinks she's blessed. So, after some time, she ends up leaving, once again on her quest to find the monster. The monster himself, while he has killed in many instances in the past without a care, for some reason or another bonds with her and doesn't kill her. Afterwards, where they make friends despite the fact he killed her fiance (go figure), they head off and get quite a lot of media attention. Plots and twisted morals run thick, and pity tends to control your emotions in this movie. Overall, it was pretty substandard. The script is pretty poorly written. I'd probably give it a 4/10.
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