When reviewing, it's not the norm for me to do spoilers but for this particular film I will because I know most don't get the conclusion at all lol. I didn't at first either but I have a theory I'll share. My take is that Xalene was in fact Mr. Peep's alter ego and was having sex with Odello, or "Echo." Peep/Xalene was killing every other girl that was sleeping with Odello in jealous rages and ended up choking Mia to death upon realizing she might be pregnant with Odello's child. Now for my straight ahead review. I guess it's supposed to be clever that the plot is taking place in a complex and the situation is... complex lol. Cute at best. The characters aren't written with much depth and none are redeemable enough that the audience will care a great deal about them. As an erotic psychological thriller, though there's a good amount of nudity and sex the movie is not truly sensual or sexy at all. I've seen a few of this directors films and he seems to at least earlier on his career struggled with keeping proper tone in his projects; this film is no exception. Pacing is bad as well, as some scenes go on for too long. The twist, as explained earlier, is decent but more in concept than the execution here. The director also doesn't have great skills at establishing the right amount of excitement and suspense needed for a film like this to work as a good thriller. The music is a bit generic which tends to happen with productions of this level. The acting is decent enough. Audio and visual editing so-so. I'll give extra credit for attempting to do something with a little bit more ambition than average, even if the filmmaker couldn't quite stick the landing.
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