WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

SnoopyStyle Joe Hilditch (Bob Hoskins) is an eccentric manager of a catering company. Felicia (Elaine Cassidy) is a desperate young lady from Ireland looking for her boy friend who left her to go to London.This is very much a creepy movie that starts out as a gentle film. The style, the story, and the actors don't really hint at the subject matter early on. Director Atom Egoyan is doing something perverse here. It's almost as if he's lulling the audience into a different movie. Then he turns the movie slowly into something disturbing. It's a very slow start for people who want action. This ain't the movie for that. Bob Hoskins is brilliant as he creeps into Felicia's journey. He's the perfect blend of likability on the outside, and the ugliness on the inside.

Prof-Hieronymos-Grost A naive young Irish girl travels to England to find her boyfriend, who has gone there to find work. Unable to find him she meets a kind catering manager Joe Hilditch,(Bob Hoskins) who helps her find lodgings. They keep meeting up and he continues to help her in her search, Felicia tells him her story and that she is pregnant, he offers advice and offers to assist in getting an abortion, Felicia downbeat at not being able to find her beau, agrees. Recuperating in Hilditch'a house she doesn't realize the danger she is in. A very unusual film indeed, to the untrained eye it might seem like a period piece, as the music, clothes, cars etc would point in that direction, but it is a contemporary setting with wholesale old fashioned values. Hoskins is superb as the killer who films his victims before they die, the scenes where he relaxes by cooking to old tapes of his celebrity cook mother, gradually reveal where it all went wrong for him. Against this there are also flashbacks to Felicia's home town, where we learn of her development and her blossoming relationship is revealed along with her father's dislike of said friendship. An odd but totally intriguing film.

bob_bear The TV announcer who introduced this late one Saturday night said it should have won Oscars. Quite a statement for a film I'd never heard of...though why I should have taken any notice of a TV announcer, I don't know. In the event, said announcer was talking tripe.It's a dreary, miserable movie that leaves a bad taste in the mouth. I couldn't get on with Hoskins' awful Burr-ming-gum accent. Can't see any advantage in it being set in the Midland's anyway. Unresolved threads abound...and I wouldn't normally mind this but half of them make no sense. And what about when Hoskins' says he'll pick Felicia up from outside her B&B although she never told him where exactly she was staying??? Or her buying into the funeral that clearly never took place (and where was she during those days???) Clumbsy and ill-thought through bits of business if you ask me.It's a thriller without thrills. It's full of pretentious bits of business. It's depressing... Didn't like it. Thought it was rubbish. Wouldn't recommend it. 'Nuff said.

christopher-underwood One gets the very clear impression, from his films, that Mr Egoyan did not have the most satisfactory of childhoods. Well, that's a shame for him, but I guess a bonus for us because we get to see the results of him exploring the themes through film. This is a very good film in which he surely gets from Bob Hoskins, the best performance of his life. He certainly won't be getting anymore British Telecom, 'It's good to talk' ads after the talk he does in this but it is most persuasive. Perhaps one wishes now and again for Felicia, wonderfully played by, Elaine Cassidy, to be a little more 'street wise' or for the director to push things forward a little more quickly, but all in all, a most satisfying and disturbing work.