I enjoyed the movie overall, I suppose, though from a technical point, I feel they had a few too many car crashes for what is, inherently, a thriller rather than an action flick. That's a small criticism, though, because I felt it was pretty well-written for this kind of movie. They handle foreshadowing pretty well, although I could definitely see an argument that they perhaps foreshadowed too much for a 90 minute film. I thought the acting was decent overall, and if I have any content complaint, it's that they might be just a bit more preachy than I would like, though I don't think they beat you over the head with it or anything.

What does bother me about the film, though, is that overall, I agree more with the psycho than the victim on a purely philosophical basis. Admittedly, he goes several magnitudes beyond the appropriate reaction, and I am in no way advocating any of the violence that he exhibits. But Crowe's speech in the pick-up near the beginning is pretty on-point, and if that had been all there was to this movie, like a short discussing philosophy, I would be completely with him as opposed to Caren Pistorius's character. The Man (as he is credited) made a small mistake, owned up to it, and apologized. I respect that. The woman was excessively rude, and doubled down, refuses to apologize when it would have been easy to do so. Add to that the fact that her son was in the car, so she could have set a good example for him instead of defaulting to pride and anger.

This leaves me with an uneasy feeling about the film, for some reason. I think it's because, based solely on that one conversation, I want to pull for the psycho (up until he starts stalking and killing, of course). Unlike other thriller/stalker/killer movies that I can think of (which admittedly is not a genre I watch much, so I might be wrong), she is given several opportunities to end it by simply apologizing. The violence the man perpetrates is never justified, of course, but it makes it harder for me to feel empathy for the victim knowing that she had the ability to stop it, especially with something so simple.

Now, I suspect that is why the film starts out the way it does, the night before with Crowe's character murdering his ex-wife and her lover and burning down their house. I suspect that was to forfend the viewer from empathizing too much with him. Ironically, the first thing I ever saw of this movie was that talking scene in traffic with Crowe's speech. I saw it in a clip shortly after the movie came out, and that's what made me buy the movie to begin with. It's been sitting on my shelf for a year, and I only just got to it. I didn't like the opening, because it seemed to me the movie was just flashing me a neon sign saying: THIS IS THE VILLAIN!

Anyway, those are my thoughts. I enjoyed the movie, but it pretty 'middle of the road.' I doubt I will rewatch it very often, if ever. But I'd be interested in hearing what other people think about it.