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I hate fake hero movies they are a dead end commercial genre movie. The fake hero enters the story with a big schism and is doomed regardless of his fight against crime or evil. In this case, the screenwriters made it even easier when the mother who is responsible for her daughter's death while drunk is not allowed to show even signs of remorse. (I don't count unpleasant dreams). These films play by commercial rules, they are not independent films trying to reflect reality. And that's why the anti-happy ending seems violent and unsatisfying. The equation simply applies: a hero who is not immaculately clean must die in the end. In addition, the film loses its pace towards the end, the chases become more and more banal and the promising policeman also fades into the void. The story's biggest trump card, Herman Mudgett's hotel maze, is woefully underused. The performances are diverse, the character of the girl is poorly cast.

As much as this movie tries to take itself terribly seriously, I realized that I absolutely must not take it seriously when I review it. While swatting is a serious crime theme, the way the screenwriter handled it in this case is pure "Saw" genre. That means - a diabolical "villain" endowed with unlimited or even supernatural power, fateful "coincidences", a plot inexorably moving towards the punishment that the characters sign at the very beginning, and a "moral" message as the last point. Nothing more, nothing less, because the genre it is processed well visually, acting and editing. And don't take it seriously!

In one of Roger Corman's old horror films, the characters slowly walk through the same corridor several times, and in this film you will be repeatedly riding the elevator. When at the beginning one of the characters asks if it will be enough for the whole film, you should take it as a warning. The film as a whole does not work. It is made up of several mini-stories, the quality of which resembles short horror films on You Tube, and are worth watching in themselves. However, since this is not a horror anthology film, it is a variation on an elevator game that is not functionally glued together, so the overall story is superficial and lacks tension. Jump scares and special effects are the biggest positive and also the actresses have nice asses.