Time Out says
And so Rowe must attempt to wrestle the truth from the supposedly brilliant young mind. But debut writer-director Gregory J Read makes it hard to care, offering up superficial, monotonal characters (you never escape the feeling that you’re watching pretty boys playing psychopaths). Interesting plot developments – such as Alex’s fatal crush on a schoolgirl – are all too brief, buried under heavy-handed scoring and semi-intelligible waffle about secret societies, pacts and so on. The ending is unclear: the old explanatory-flashback trick might have helped in this case. Toni Collette must have owed the director quite a favour.
Release Details
- Rated:15
- Release date:Friday 11 May 2007
- Duration:109 mins
Cast and crew
- Director:Gregory J Read
- Screenwriter:Gregory J Read
- Cast:
- Toni Collette
- Eddie Redmayne
- Tom Sturridge
- Cathryn Bradshaw
- Kate Maberly
- Patrick Malahide
- Jon Overton
- Richard Roxburgh
- Amit Shah
- Ben Szoradi
- David Threfall
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