I almost appreciate what Brad Anderson was going for here. The plot line is very well laid out. You might have some ideas where it is going and you might actually be right. To mention the movies like this one will ruin the twist so I will stay away from that. The characters are all good in my opinion. They are simple. You know what drives them and you probably wouldn't want to hang around with any of them. They are also acted very well. I don't think any of the actor actually did a bad job. It is always good to visit an old mental institution in films. This venue has been used many times over, but it works here. The title of the film refers to a stack of tapes of recorded therapy sessions with a patient that has multiple personalities. Here is where the film can't decide where it wants to go. The tapes are actually very well done and do have a creepy vibe to them, but in the end the tapes have little to do with the movie.
It is 2016 (as I write this) and we have seen this movie be done in better ways. I will say this: it is one of those movies where you should be able to look back and say "oh yeah, it was there the whole time" except it wasn't there. The movie doesn't give you enough. At times it even goes out of its way to show you things that shouldn't be possible in order to sell the twist. By the end, the logic isn't solid and the movie suffers.
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