Absurd kidnap scheme, to adopt the adjective of the psychiatrist-hero (Michael Douglas) to describe his one-day task (or else...) of unlocking the subconscious of a ten-year mental patient (Brittany Murphy) and retrieving a six-digit figure of unknown relevance. No less absurd is the idea that the kidnappers themselves would know its relevance, to say nothing of the idea that they would know the digit is embedded in the patient's subconscious to begin with. There are other absurdities, such as the surreptitious installation of closed-circuit cameras throughout the doctor's apartment to monitor the movements of his bedridden wife -- but why go on? The real point of the enterprise is simply to demonstrate, by means of Traffic-like tints and jostled camerawork, that director Gary Fleder is as up-to-date, as cutting-edge, as hip and happening as anybody else in Hollywood -- a sheep in Versace clothing. With Sean Bean, Jennifer Esposito, Oliver Platt, and Famke Janssen. (2001) — Duncan Shepherd
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