I liked that the Sara character is not the screaming type, she’s a fighter, but there was also something about her that made one suspicious, not sure if we should like her or not.
After a bomb exploded in front of her, Sara (Michelle Monaghan) is now totally blind, but in Ryan’s apartment she seems perfectly at ease. How long have they lived together? Anyway, she calls his name but he doesn’t answers. She can’t know why, but we can see his murdered body on the floor. Sara walks back and forth, also not noticing that Ryan’s murderer is still in the house. When she accidentally walks over Ryan’s blood, she slips and fall down and finally finds the body.
Chad (Barry Sloane) doesn’t let her go out, instead he ties her up to her bed and questions her. She manages to hit him and run away, and she hides in the basement when she hears a friend approaching. She shouts for this Antonio to go and find help, but instead he comes forward. She tells him that there’s a dangerous man, and Antonio is all ‘I won’t leave you here’, which may seem a very brave and noble thing to do, but it also means that he hasn’t yet told anybody, and that when Chad kills him nobody will come to help her. She ran downstairs without calling for help. Is there nobody in the whole building? Of course shouting ‘help’ may not be useful, but she could shout ‘somebody call the police’... in the privacy of their home maybe someone would actually call.
Anyway, she manages to run outside, and she walks in the street asking for help when a ‘policeman’ approaches her, telling people to move on, that he’ll take care of it. It’s too early in the movie, it didn’t really fool anybody. We knew Chad has a partner, so it’s pretty obvious that poor Sara is not safe, she simply met the partner...
Chad is the thug type, while his partner Hollander (Michael Keaton) is the thinking type, but they’re both very dangerous.
When they find a lot of money hidden behind a photo enlargement on a wall, she tells them to take the money and go away, but they only pretend to leave to see what she’d do. They are still inside because there’s much more to find. Ryan had taken some diamonds that they now want. They’re worth millions. Hollander tries to get her to tell him where the diamonds are by threatening her cat, and then he throws it off the balcony... (it is rather high, but it’s a cat after all......)
When her pregnant sister and her husband finally come, they were expected to celebrate together the new year - I think. Sara does her best to send them away saying that she’s fighting with Ryan, but naturally they’re not keen to leave her there alone and want to talk to Ryan, but then Blake’s water break and they hurry to the hospital.
Hollander orders Chad to make him a drink and goes with Sara on the balcony. She tells him that she thinks Ryan might have hidden the diamonds in a vase because she once saw him with dirt on his hands, but Hollander understands quickly that she’s playing him, to buy some time, since there are lots of vases there (all empty though, why so many empty vases??). Meanwhile, Chad finds the diamonds hidden in the ice-cubes, so he uses water to melt all the ice-cubes and he retrieves all the diamonds and puts them in a little plastic bag, and tells nothing to Hollander, but as I said before Hollander is the thinking type, and he saw him act strangely, and now he’s offered a ice-less drink...
Chad realizes that he knows, and he tries to kill Hollander, who is quicker and kill him instead. That is what often happens when a guy with a knife tries to kill a guy with a gun.
Sara attacks Hollander in the back with a sort of big barbecue fork, which seems rather stupid, and tries to run away, but of course he’s not injured and he stops her. Chad was not dead yet and tries again to kill Hollander, but this time he’s killed with his own knife.
Taking advantage of the two men fighting, Sara tries to run away, maybe to hide, when she stumbles on the gun, and she takes it. She waits for Hollander on the balcony, where she can hear him moving and shoot at him, but the fireworks start creating more trouble, and she has yet another flashback of the woman with the fake baby that exploded in front of her.
Sara keeps pointing the gun at Hollander (the fireworks stopped rather quickly after all...) and threatens him to throw the diamonds away, because she needs him to move or make noise to know where he is and shoot him. She throws a couple of diamonds off the balcony, and then threatens to throws the whole bag, so Hollander has no other choice and moves towards her; she shoots him, he grabs her, she turns and throws him off the balcony too, and we can see him down there with the cat walking over his corpse, maybe wondering why isn’t he getting up and concluding that humans are indeed bigger but cats are definitely better.
Now that they’re both dead, she’s safe and she walks back in the apartment, with the remaining diamonds still firmly in her hand. She puts them in the ice tray, spreading them, before putting them in the freezer.
This is the end, so it means that she had known all along that the diamonds were there? That’s why she hides them again? I really disliked seeing her freezing the diamonds again, it was very unpleasant to see her do that before calling the police, before telling anybody to come get Ryan’s body, before calling her brother-in-law to see how’s her sister doing.... it didn’t seem the right thing to do after what had happened, not for a good innocent person at least.
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