8/10
Scarily unorthodox for the time
28 April 2003
Warning: Spoilers
This is the first murder mystery, to my knowledge, where the malefactor has already killed many victims by the time the film starts and most of the rest (including scores of innocent people via an airplane bomb) early in the film. The mass murderer in question's evil goes back to his days in an Allied POW camp in Japan during World War II (important plot narrative not to be overlooked) where he sabotaged his fellow inmates' escape attempts in his function as a mole at the camp, earning the others brutal payback from their Japanese overseers. Chilling at moments as the murderer just goes along killing in nefarious and creepy disguises.

Well worth seeing without commercial interruptions, especially in the post-show credits during which guest stars who had appeared in disguise mug for the camera.
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