where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
show: 10:00 p.m.
costs: $9.75 Ticket + $1.65 bulk Chocolate Candy + $4.00 20 oz Fanta Orange Soda + $6.32 # 2 Quarter Pounder w/ Cheese Meal @ the MacDonald's Restaurant in the Target Shopping Center before the movie = $21.72
auditorium: 13
seat: 5th row, 7th column
synopsis/overview: Jill ( Amanda Seyfried ) comes home from work one day and discovers that her sister is missing. Having been the victim of a kidnapping the year before and believing that her sister is kidnapped, she gets hysterical when nobody, including the cops, takes her seriously. In desperation, she takes matters into her own hands as she hunts for the serial rapist/killer.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Forest park map; 2.) Martial Arts gym; 3.) Diner; 4.) Missing sister; 5.) Police department; 6.) New detective; 7.) Jill's history; 8.) Pajamas; 9.) Neighbor; 10.) Locksmith; 11.) Gun; 12.) Hardware store; 13.) Dorm room; 14.) Bus; 15.) "Rapey eyes"; 16.) Matchbook; 17.) Rented car; 18.) "I can't believe they involved you in this"; 19.) Co-worker's house; 20.) 'Phone call; 21.) Back at the Forest Park; 22.) No cellphone service; 23.) Tent; 24.) "Where's Jill"; 25.) The pit; 26.) "I lied"; and 27.) Evidence.
audience reaction: There was a small family in the auditorium with me which was seated in one of the back rows. But I didn't hear any reaction from them throughout the movie.
recommendation: This Psychological Thriller is good enough to pass the time away. But, for its subject matter, they should have made this movie into an R-rated one. Because, as it is, it has a "Made for TV" type of "feel" to it.
spoiler alert! Here we go again with yet another bathroom where a shower curtain doesn't have a curtain liner. Enough with the "nude" tease already, Gosh Dang It! That was one heck of an insomniac neighbor! "Rapey eyes"? What the heck is that? There's no such word as, "Rapey". Leering eyes, maybe. Dry cat food for his victims--really? I guess that the serial rapist/killer was clueless about the slang word, Pussy! When she got out of that pit the first time around, she should have pulled up the canvas ladder. Because of the nature of the stab wound, serious infection should have most likely set in. Even with your mouth duct-taped, you can still make a fairly loud enough sound to attract someone's attention. Wow, I didn't know that waitresses at some "greasy spoon" restaurants in Portland, Oregon, can afford to own a house, raise kids, and buy an SUV on the minimum wage and tips that they earn at work! I'm in the wrong service industry, and/or I'm living in the wrong state! Usually, when cops patrol a dark area where a suspect might be hiding, the cops will use their spotlights on any and every occupied vehicle that they come across. The cops could easily subpoena the cellphone company to look at the record of Jill's phone calls and text messages. Today's wireless 'phone technology has increased the chances that a person's cellphone conversations are actually being recorded so that anything the person says on his/her cellphone can be used against him/her in a court of law, especially with the Patriot Act in place. Cellphones have GPS trackers built-in in case of an emergency. And a mental hospital patient armed with a gun and speeding around town while desperately looking for someone would be considered an "emergency situation." And the cops had her cellphone number all that time and she was on the 'phone for over a minute on more than one occasion so that they could have easily put a tracer/tracker on her calls. What! she drove around while she talked on her cellphone ...? That's against the law! The cops should have arrested her for driving while talking on her cellphone. Ha, ha, ha. Usually, when a girl gets raped, her clothes are torn-off, not left intact and still on her person! That was quite a fall she took when she was pulled into the pit but she got up okay. Kerosene is not highly flammable so that it could not have ignited that quickly and could not have shot-out flames from that deep of a pit! ( I should know about Kerosene since kids in the Philippines use it quite a lot around The Holidays for their Bamboo Cannons. )
fyi: My brother was robbed at gunpoint last November. The two bad guys took his bag and his money, but they threw away his cellphone because it had a built-in GPS tracker.
word of advice: Treat each individual case individually.
tidbits: There was too much B.S. at work tonight. So, I decided to see this movie after I got off work just so I could unwind.
And ...
Since my Hyundai Accent was covered in pollen--it looked like its blue paint had a yellow haze to it--I hoped that it would rain hard ( free car-wash ) while I was watching this movie, since it rained practically all night last night when my car was parked in its carport. But, when I got out of the theatre, I noticed that it hadn't rained at all.
Oh, well, it will rain eventually one of these days when my car will be parked away from its carport. A free car-wash is a free car-wash. And I sure as heck am lookin' forward to it!
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