Crack, craSHH, scream, click. Good sound design. Is that it? About it. Not sure if this was some Funny Games copy gone awry or an honest attempt at box office penetration, or both. The first act is really cool, the relationship stuff and how the plot points are delivered in a kind of choppy flash forward / flash back / etc way that works. Yet after that the pic deteriorates into the genre norm minute by minute, cut by cut.
Lord, I gotta say one thing - Liv Tyler has never looked more beautiful on film and plays a great damsel in distress.
Round the end we get to see hints at the true identities of the intruders. By that time I was bored and looking at the clock. Effective thriller for the middle-expectation filmgoer thrill seeker.
** / *****
The Strangers (2008)
Funny Games (2007)