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About half of this movie is actually quite intriguing, I genuinely wanted to see how it would unfold, how could he possibly escape? Then it just gets absurd and continued to become more far fetched and ludicrous as it goes along. Those looking for the plot twist that is so prevalent in Shyamalan movies won't find a good one here. The premise is actually not that far fetched and the situations of him thinking his way out of the concert and well thought out, very realistic in some respects but once he does get out, it is just downhill from there.

The last scene is just infuriating, why finish it that way? Like oh yeh, he has a plan for everything, yeh, ok. Apparently this guy also defies the laws of tasers, I could go on and on but I will just leave it there. Production quality is excellent, story starts well, just a mess after the mid-point and wasted opportunities to do something really cool.

This is another movie where the run time could have been cut I half and it would have still made sense and would have worked as an episode of Creepshow, or Twilight zone, it would have worked well in that arena. As a movie it is literally riddled with plot holes as many other people point out. The ending has a twist, but it is not something that makes you gasp - "I didn't see that coming", this was predictable and also quite anti-climatic.

As a story, it is ok but by the time the movie finished, I had to question what I just watched. The concept was there and it was filmed extremely well but the dialogue is weak, the ending is not good and it builds up to something that never really happens. There was so much to work with here and yet it just feels like a real missed opportunity.