This was a creepy, atmospheric psychological thriller! It's somewhat slow-moving plot-wise, but the weirdness, the atmosphere, and the character interactions kept me engaged the entire time. Nicolas Cage and Robin Tunney play a couple who are looking to start over after the accidental death of their young daughter. So naturally they buy a run-down motel in a creepy town. Ha! While Cage's character Ray is exploring the motel, he discovers a crawl space that leads to a two-way mirror where he can see what is happening (e.g. prostitute sex) in one of the rooms. Does he call the cops? Does he dismantle it? Nope, not exactly. This is a weird little thriller with mystery, a little suspense, and some laughs (the kind of laughs where the people are so weird that you can't help but laugh). That's part of what makes it work though. Entertaining.

Not everything fell in place for me at the end: for instance, what's with the oig in the pool? Why would a sheriff do that (ok to scare off Cage, but whyyy scare him off at all?!) and what did he want from Cage's wife in the room all tied up at the end waiting for him to come back? And what did that Domino Lady have to do with the whole story and sheriff being the murderer? Can somebody please explain this?

Liked the local's and it was a good story line IF executed properly by the cast ... Cage was not believeable and took it down, he was after all the "lead" .. The location was fine and a wise choice to keep the overhead down .. music could have help a lot, in many ways ... imowill watch again and see if I change my thougts

This one had me questioning whether I was done with Cage movies. He's usually pretty weird but he was more so in this one, but it paid off to stick with the movie until the end. Don't pay attention to slhma-86182's review of this movie. There are answers if you understand English and you're not bitter for some reason. I was left with a few unanswered questions but chalked it up to people just being plain old strange. The whole story and its plot work well enough to give this one a minimum of 7 out of 10.