Milla Jovovich plays a primary school teacher (I wish she was my primary school teacher when I was growing up, but that's a different story) who hears about one of those serial killers on the TV before she goes out. Then she goes out and ends up getting battered by the same one. In doing so she loses the ability to recognise people and has to, er, I forget.It was at that point I started doing something else. She goes to see an old woman/psychiatrist/doctor who coaches her like Obi-wan Kenobi in drag.Faces in the Crowd has got a nice premise behind it, plus Milla's not bad in most of what she does. Therefore it must find a certain amount of people out there who liked it. I just found it boring. There's only so many times she can see someone and not recognise them, only to find out it's someone she knows. Then, at just before the ninety minute mark, finally bump back into the serial killer and...I won't spoil it for you. You might want to find out for yourself. Then again, if you're a fan of Milla Jovovich, you might just want to stick on one of the Resident Evil films or the Fifth Element.

Milla Jovovich plays a woman whom, after an encounter with a serial killer, injures herself and causes a condition where she cannot control her facial recognition.So only Julian McMahons beard, and ties being worn can help her.When a prolific actor or actress stars in a straight to DVD movie, you know that there must be problems, even ultraviolet had a cinema release.And there are huge problems with this movie, despite the concept being sound. The main problem is, they play this like a horror movie, whereas it could have worked much better as a thriller, an intelligent thriller, rather than having her guess who is who.The cast are okay, but look so out of place, and for the most part, McMahon looks really embarrassed to be this, and on occasion, Jovovich looks and acts like a cyborg.Its aiming for the whodunit crowd, but this would have been made in 1992 with Michael Douglas and Madeleine Stowe.But when you think about if, it was made in the nineties.Has anyone seen Blink, or Jennifer 8?Pointless.

The brilliance of this movie is they keep you confused about the identity of each character by using dozens different actors for each character, morphing, makeup etc. Just like the heroine, you can't remember what each character really looks like. The changes start out subtle, so it feels like your memory is faulty. You experience the world partially through the eyes of the heroine who cannot distinguish faces. Voices, builds etc. are not distinctive either.This ambiguity of identity greatly enhances the problem of the heroine knowing whom she can trust. It is a traditional horror movie where the heroine refuses to take sensible precautions, and keeps putting herself at mortal risk. This movie works because the heroine is so vulnerable and because the villain takes such sadistic pleasure in teasing her with her strange vulnerability. It kept me on the edge of my seat. I normally find the genre boring.

OK, so by now your interest should have piqued having read the outlining premise of the movie; Jokovich regains consciousness after being attacked by "tear jerk jack" (!) albeit having lost the ability to read people's faces..where do I begin? Well Jokovich,bless her, does her best to invest in the film, but ultimately runs around making squeaky noises, freaking out over the slightest incident which makes her look like a neurotic housewife having just discovered a mouse. I think the majority of the time she's trying to make up for the hopeless storyline and flat stereotypical characters around her however I have had ironing sessions which are more thrilling than this film. Julian McMahon, once hot and credible, is starting to lose his hair, obviously dyes it and has a substantial middle aged paunch creeping up.. His "I appear to be a gruff, misunderstood, bombastic cop but I'm actually a good guy frustrated at my inability to catch tear jerk jack the serial killer" routine comes across as naff as he dad runs around for most of the film vowing not to let Jokovich "out of his sight" an then proceeds to let her out of his sight so the killer can take advantage of her disability and attempt to rape, murder and cry over her lifeless body. Honestly, that's his Modus operandi; he crys and his killings are linked through DNA profiling the tears found on the bodies - genius! Watch out for marianne faithful (once famous for going out with mick jagger) who has had her lips inflated so much it is hard to understand her; this only enhances (pardon the pun) the ridiculousness of his film. Now excuse me whilst my three year old niece and I, using only chunky crayons and sheets of blank paper, set about creating the next movie for mila to "produce"