In a twist on the usual hi-tech smarthouse/serial killer sub-genre, a bereaved mother who designed her state-of-the-art house kidnaps and traps The Diablo Killer in her vengeance-labyrinth basement and uses the tech to confront the killer with his crimes and get revenge for her daughter's murder. Mostly a rather weak two-hander intertwined with heavy-handed flashbacks that slow down the action to show the path to the current situation, the film becomes a rather dreary cat-and-mouse thriller with everything spelled out very clearly that feels rather dated. Idiot Plot is often the order of the day here and raises some questions about what is actually happening, and the ending is signposted clunkily half-way through, but overall the thinness of the material does little to hold interest, with the idea perhaps being better than the execution and delivery.
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