All it did was remind me of it's already iconic use in one of my favorite movies. In summary I found a few things Keanu said in a serious monologue quite laugh out loud funny and the use of a popular pixies track at the end credits reminded me of a student movie using cool music to be cool. Don't let my mention of cage fool you, the acting in this movie is sub par, if Keanu isn't The Wicker Man he's the wooden man and the girls act like female villains in a made for TV batman movie. That idea i couldn't shake and ironically it became what kept me entertained, imagining cage instead of reeves, which wasn't too hard as Keanu seemed to channel the spirit of the rage cage as if he were possessed by him. It's almost as if the idea was to get Keanu to behave somewhat like Nicholas Cage in OMG mode. Once we move to the second act the script loses any credibility and little is left for creation of further suspense. His efforts here seemed to diminish after the initial creation of suspense. I've always liked Eli Roth mainly for his near show stealing appearance as 'The Bear Jew' in Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds and his movies, though never groundbreaking for me, offered playful b-movie fun. Despite the warnings from negative reviews and low IMDb rating i watched it anyway.
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