The rivalry between the manipulative boss of an advertising agency and her talented protégée escalates from stealing credit to public humiliation to murder. Three minutes into this film were enough to be honest, the acting by Noomi Rapace was all over the place, the way that the movie starts it's stupid especially the one where a chick licks another chick. Then there's this video that they try to do with the whole phone thing and that was even more retarded. What makes this even more sad it's the fact that it was directed by the same man who directed the first Mission Impossible movie starring Tom Cruise. Personally if you like movies and any of this actors do yourself a favor and don't see it. (0/10)

Oh dear..... Within 60 seconds of watching I drew the clear conclusion that my time was better spent elsewhere. I am totally puzzled as to what BdeP was looking to achieve; I expected the first scene to close with a TV set being turned off, immediately followed by properly scripted actors mocking the car crash/comedy/amateur hour they had been watching. In dismissing the limp interplay between 2 women and a token boyfriend, the proper cast would then make way for the movie to start in earnest.Amazingly, that first scene set the tone for what was to follow - poor acting, terrible scripting, disjointed pace, lack of narrative, absence of character development, weak storytelling and a general mishmash of locations and scenes that left me thinking this laughable excuse for a movie was nothing more than a Director's self indulgence. At the premiere I can only imagine that a severe case of the emperors new clothes had kicked in whereby no-one dare exhale their sharp intakes of breath in order to share their complete unease and disbelief of what was before their eyes.The central premise is a lesbian laced joust between 2 hollow, privileged females, masquerading as a business power-play carried out in an artificial Berlin society which comes across as completely meaningless. Thus develops a plunge into unfaithfulness, murder and a totally predictable ending.The man who gave us Carrie and Carlito's Way is way off beam here, the $20m budget is a gigantic price for a complete stinker.

Despite being tonally inconsistent and silly at times, it's a (somewhat) welcome return to form for De Palma, even if his Hitchcock-aping doesn't really take effect until the last act. Structurally and tonally, one can divide this movie into three parts: The first is kind of like a dramedy (suggested by the soundtrack), the second is more of a melodrama and the third (and final) act goes into full WTF mode as De Palma pulls every trick in his admittedly small book and tries to get the viewer to question the reality of everything they see. As such, the movie isn't really that effective until this section, with most of the prior dialogue seeming sophomoric and shallow, much like the relationships and characters in the film. Still, this movie is worth watching for that final act. It's style over substance, but it's got quite a sense of style.

The storyline is laughable, the soundtrack is genuinely borderline between comical and plain awful. The majority of the acting is dreadful. It is not well-shot, the directing is poor; genuinely the film has no redeeming features. However, it is compulsive viewing as you have to watch it the end to ensure it's really as bad as you think it is. And in the end, it is. Rachel McAdams and Karoline Herfurth are the only two people in this film who do it any justice, in that, they are the only two people in the film who come across as capable of acting. As for everyone else, it also comes across that post-production did them no favours what-so-ever. A poor film that probably had the potential to be alright. The sets, costumes and locations are impressive, and that is about it.