Quick Rating: **
 
 
 
Here we have a suspense/thriller movie, with cops chasing a serial killer.  Hmm..  What a novel idea.  You know, I was thinking that Hollywood doesn't make enough movies about serial killers!  Anyway, we're introduced to the killer as a roaming teen who's first blood gives him a new identity and the thirst for more.
 
Years later (present day), he's still "taking lives", in Montreal.  The cops never put together that there was a serial killer until they find two bodies relatively quickly.  In comes an FBI agent (why is an FBI agent working in Canada?) who likes to lay down in graves and stare at gruesome crime scene photos as she eats or bathes. 
 
Jolie is once again great to look at.  And she does a good job as the FBI agent Scott.  The rest of the cast does well too.  Although Ethan Hawke is odd looking - I never quite "got" him, and Keifer has about 5 minutes of air time.  At any rate, the suspence keeps up for a while, and there are a few scares (even if they don't make sense in retrospect), but the "twist", if there is one, is not very surprising, and the ending almost got me.  I was (for a second) actually shocked!   That's saying something when I'm shocked by something in a movie.  But the shock quickly fades away, and you realized you've watched a pretty mediocre film.
 
Run-of-the-mill, track down a serial killer thriller with a twist.  On the rocks.
 
Did I mention Angelina Jolie is easy on the eyes?
 

 

Quality: 5.0  Visuals: 6.0  Intensity: 5.0  Gore: 4.5 
OVERALL RATING: 5.1