Michelle Godinez Honestly don't know why this movie is getting bad reviews, I thought it was pretty good. It kept me distracted from my phone and iPad so it grabbed my attention right from the start. And I didn't see the way the movie ended coming at all, loved the twist at the end. I would watch it again for sure. Or perhaps my judgement towards this movie is clouded because I watched a really bad movie just before it. Anyway this movie gets straight to the point it and doesn't drag on at all and I thought Brittany Murphy did a decent performance in this movie. The only, kind of, downfall is that the whole movie is basically shot in one hospital, but nevertheless The movie is very entertaining and the suspense keeps building up right until the end were all will be revealed.

Robert J. Maxwell There's nothing much to the plot, which is fairly familiar. Someone we know to be real vanishes under ordinary circumstances and is tracked down by a friend or family member. Nobody remembers ever having seen the person who disappeared. Sometimes the motive for the kidnapping is some secret code ("The Lady Vanishes"), sometimes the victim is involuntarily sequestered because he has some disease ("So Long At The Fair"), sometimes jealousy ("Bunny Lake is Missing"). Here he's simply kidnapped from a hospital for money but it's not revealed until the end. Actually, that's not entirely the end.It was shot in Los Angeles with no stars but it was better than I expected for a couple of reasons. (1) No exploding fireballs. (2) No stupendous car crashes. I suppose that the low budget could account for the absence of these clichés, but one cliché that was missing would have cost nothing to include.Ordinarily when the protagonist has an unusual story to tell, she finds that no one will believe her. She dashes from person to person, agency to agency, desperately trying to get her story out, and everyone she meets shrugs it off as a delusion or some sort of humdrum error in the computer system. When, FINALLY, she does meet a sympathetic listener who is willing to help, she turns to blubber and begins to speak gibberish -- "He seemed so REAL! He was wearing a puce fustian cape and a motley foolscap with bells on it!" Well, I don't know what happened to that scene. The diminutive Brittany Murphy, with her stringy blond tresses, deep-set dark eyes, and wide, pulpy mouth, never once goes to pieces, despite multiple opportunities. She acts in a reasonable but increasingly frustrated manner throughout. Never mind the overplayed villainous roles or the melancholy performance by Peter Bogdanovitch as a helpless psychiatrist.One of the first hospital people she queries is a tall, burly guy with a buzz cut and an unfriendly expression. She describes her missing boy friend -- "A little over six feet, black hair, dark eyes." "I haven't seen anyone of that description," replies the Security Agent. (The description fits 90% of Homo sapiens. Is he blind, or is this Iceland?) The real climax is inexplicable. A detective wanders into someone's house, picks up a book, and reads the entire plot of the movie he now finds himself in. Ten million dollars seems to appear from nowhere.But -- come to think of it -- there's another missing cliché. Murphy is being pursued through the bowels of the hospital by the armed, burly Security Agent. He pauses in a room crowded with large pipes. She steps out and beans him with an iron pipe. He falls to the floor, blood on his head. The terrified girl slowly advances to pick up the pistol lying next to him. This is the point at which the "dead body" should come roaring back to life and grab her by the throat. But no. Another opportunity either overlooked or, very sensibly, skipped deliberately.The heck with it. Two extra points for the two missing clichés. Call me a Franciscan fool.

Laura R Mary Walsh (Brittany Murphy) takes her boyfriend Kevin (Dean Cain) to the hospital for some routine outpatient surgery on his leg. She is with him during check in, and leaves him in the room for his surgery only to return and find him missing. Hospital staff, security, and administration can find no trace of him in the system so she contacts a police detective on her own. After a search of the hospital turns up nothing, and Mary accidentally drops a bottle of anti-depressants from her bag, a hospital psychiatrist is brought in to evaluate her and deems her "unstable". She asks for a moment alone, and then flees his office to try and find answers on her own. While hiding in the hospital morgue she gets a call from Kevin telling her he is still inside the hospital being held captive and that she should trust no one before he screams and the call disconnects. As Mary leaves the morgue and is being chased by a burly security guard she crosses over into the parking garage and is hit by a car, leaving her to be taken into custody once again by hospital staff.While in her recovery room she is approached once again by an older gentleman you see her having coffee with in the cafeteria earlier on in the film. He pulls out a folder and starts reading off various facts about her, including the fact that she works at a bank that just received government bail-out funds. He then shows her a photo of an injured and bleeding Kevin on his cell phone and tells her that he wants $10 million dollars transferred from the bank into his account or else he will have her boyfriend killed. He then transports Mary to a location where she can connect to the internet so that she can make the transfer.Mary and the older man go to where Kevin is being held, and they release him to her once she sends the funds into their account. Then Kevin backs away and pulls off his leg brace, peeling off the cosmetic "wound" he'd applied to his forehead, and tells her that he was behind the plan all along. He and the older man had met in prison and devised the scheme around the plot of a book. The nurse from the hospital, and the security guard are in on the scheme as well. Kevin and the older man leave with the nurse, thinking they have their money, and send the security guard off to kill Mary. She escapes in the stairwell and runs away. Another character from the plan calls Kevin and notifies him that the money has NOT been transferred, so they turn and go back for Mary to get their money and silence her once and for all.Mary flees and they give chase. Mary ends up in another stairwell with the older man, guns pointed at one another. He refuses to drop his gun so she is forced to shoot him. "Kevin" finds her and tries to sweet talk her into working things out and taking the money with him and running so they can create new lives and be together. She pretends she is going to transfer the money, then throws the phone at him. He falls from the stairwell, hitting the ground and dying instantly. The police detective then shows up and apologizes to her for not believing her in the beginning. She asks what changed his mind and he shows her the book Kevin had been reading that outlines the entire plot. He walks her from the building and the screen displays "In Memory of Brittany Murphy".OPINION: The movie is poorly written, and poorly filmed; it looks as tho it was filmed with a fairly small budget. The acting, for the most part, is hit or miss. At the beginning Brittany Murphy is pale and sickly with dark rings under her eyes and messy, greasy looking hair. Later in the movie however she looks much better. I imagine the beginning portions were filmed last, probably right before she passed away.I wouldn't watch this again, and wouldn't really recommend it to anyone either unless they are A, die-hard Brittany Murphy fans or B, extremely bored and there is absolutely nothing else to do.

Don Shroyer Brittany Murphy had that something special. A certain look, an allure, a presence. As the French say, a certain something I don't know what. You see it in this movie. It's a drama/mystery/suspense flick that for some reason went direct to video.Brittany drops off her boyfriend (Dean Cain) at the hospital for routine, out patient surgery. Except when she goes to pick him up, no one seems to know anything about him. He's not in the computer, his doctor is on vacation, and no one recognizes his nurse's name. Brittany gives a very good performance as the increasingly worried girl friend, seemingly losing the only man she has really connected with in a long time, or ever. Someone who has been there for her, and now, despite her best efforts, she can't be there for him. Peter Bogdanovich is also good as the creepy psychiatrist who suspects Brittany is suffering from a mental break down, a suspicion fueled by her current high dose anti-depressant meds and an unlikely story reeking of paranoia.Supporting cast include Mimi Rogers as the clueless hospital administrator, Jay Pickett as the police detective with his own issues who is still good enough to follow the clues to the end, and Scott Anthony Leet as the intimidating security guard. Each give a competent performance that is credible.The suspense is "edge of your seat" quality, and you can not be sure of the ending until it happens. Some (including me) might think it fairly obvious based on the plot clues, but that part is only the beginning of the twists.As Brittany's final performance, this one is good enough to make you want to watch again sometime. Ultimately, it makes you wish she had longer to show us what she had.