Standard plot, emergency room doctor Hillary Swank has just separated from her longtime boyfriend (he cheated on her) and needs to find a new apartment in New York City. She does, its a nice one, the price seems to good to be true, the hunky landlord (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) also seems to be to good to be true, he is.
Swank and Morgan flirt, make out, she thinks better of it and just wants to 'be friends'. Morgan wants to be more then friends, he stocks her, which indeed he'd been doing all along, it was not by accident that Swank found this great apartment. Morgan has passageways behind the walls of the old apartment building, he uses them to spy on Swank, sneak into her apartment and drug her wine, and at night comes to her bed. Morgan also eventually kills the boyfriend (Lee Pace) just as the two are reconciling. The movie ends in a cool protracted hide and seek chase/fight in Morgans apartment catacombs.
Not a remarkable film, Swank must have just been attracted by the prospect of doing a kind of movie she hadn't done before. With stubble bearded Morgan you get the feeling that he may just be there because they couldn't it Javier Bardem. Christopher Lee, in a small role as Morgans grandfather, is just there to pad the cast. Yet it works, no surprises but you can feel that this movie was just done better then most recent films of its type. So, B-
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