John Duigan's psychological thriller 'Paranoid' explores the world of a high class model named Chloe (played by the stunning beauty Jessica Alba). She gets involved in the wrong crowd and finds herself alone in a lodge surrounded by strangers. She wakes up paranoid that someone had slept with here while she was unconscious.
It seems a simple plot. But there are strange characters that make this film more interesting. The suspected rapist (played by Iain Glen), the stalker, the boyfriend left at home. It seems as though the beautiful Chloe is surrounded by characters with ugly intentions. Apart from Theresa (played by the young Mischa Barton) who is deaf and dumb and seemingly the only one with a moral conscious.
Duigan's directing is solid, but nothing you haven't seen before. The occasional camera shot through the key hole or binoculars or from window to window.
Unfortunately Duigan's script reveals whether Chloe is suffering from irrational fears very early and too easily. He doesn't make the audience work for the answer like most good thrillers do.
Jeanne Tripplehorn is very good in a supporting role. And Jessica Alba shows potential. There is some what of a twist in the end but it doesn't work as well as it should. In the End, good... but it could of been so much better.
It seems a simple plot. But there are strange characters that make this film more interesting. The suspected rapist (played by Iain Glen), the stalker, the boyfriend left at home. It seems as though the beautiful Chloe is surrounded by characters with ugly intentions. Apart from Theresa (played by the young Mischa Barton) who is deaf and dumb and seemingly the only one with a moral conscious.
Duigan's directing is solid, but nothing you haven't seen before. The occasional camera shot through the key hole or binoculars or from window to window.
Unfortunately Duigan's script reveals whether Chloe is suffering from irrational fears very early and too easily. He doesn't make the audience work for the answer like most good thrillers do.
Jeanne Tripplehorn is very good in a supporting role. And Jessica Alba shows potential. There is some what of a twist in the end but it doesn't work as well as it should. In the End, good... but it could of been so much better.