While I've heard of films he's been in, I didn't really recognize him. The only good thing about this film was Erik Aude. Nothing is what it is supposed to be because of the direction and script.
What's supposed to be suspenseful, isn't. This film is one boring scene after the other. Also, how come Malloy's character couldn't get the guy's address from the hotel he stayed at? The unbelievable part of that scene is the guy answers Malloy's questions as if Malloy was a police officer but knowing he's just a guy who works at a hotel. Why? So, then Malloy goes to the guy's place and questions him like he is a police officer himself when he's just some dude who works at a hotel. The police officer gives him the address all hush hush like. Like Malloy is a guy who works at a hotel as concierge or something and he goes speaks to the police officer and asks for the address of the guest who beat up the girl earlier. Not that one couldn't believe things shown in this film do not happen but the fact that this film in particular makes you feel that way when watching it. This film is one scene after the next of unbelievability. There's a scene where Malloy's character is walking the streets, obviously enough room to where he doesn't have to walk in peoples paths but he keeps doing that, especially at the end when he walks into the path of someone else and the film makes you believe it wasn't his fault because the other dude tried to rob him. They're just there to do the scene(s) (it appears) and then move on to the next location.
It also tells me that writing out the scenes here is boring, as well. The script coupled with the overacting by Tom Malloy (who should know better being a seasoned actor) and most likely the direction of that scene to make it highly dramatic with the overcompensating composition playing over the scene, and then the follow through in helping the girl, controlling the situation, arresting the guy with the scene with the police was awful in the literal sense. I know this isn't a Comedy but the beginning (minus the opening dream sequence which was uninteresting) in the hotel, at the front desk, seemed as if that was what they were going for up until the bloody woman walks out of the elevator then it switched hard from trying to be light Comedy to being hard Suspense-Drama. Nothing wrong with that, as long as the focus isn't squarely on that. Exactly what it felt like from the beginning. This film is like those in the restaurant business making a film. Reviewed by nammage 2 / 10 Hero to What Underworld?