A rating of 4.2 here on IMDb is a bit too harsh, it really isn't THAT bad! It's actually very watchable, it has a reasonably thrilling story and the acting by the main characters is pretty good, with Wes Bentley as some very creepy psychopath. My main criticism concerns the tension that somehow seemed to sag-in somewhere in the middle-section, when it got a bit too low on real action. I also had some doubts about the casting. Jaimie Alexander was convincing enough as the beautiful, guilt-ridden bride-to-be, but her fiancé (Cam Gigandet) didn't match her enough, he was só listless and respectable, on the brink of boring, it seemed like a very odd coupling. And Wes Bentley was given a way too extreme outward appearance, I just could not imagine this pristine goddess fall for such a guy, even as a one-night-stand. And then there were some other improbabilities. They had to hire a private investigator to find out the back-ground of Patrick; why not begin with checking the bar in New Orleans where he obviously was employed when they met? And why didn't Michael scream something like "Tara, call 9-1-1 now!!" when he was assaulted by Patrick in the hotel-garden after the wedding, she was within hearing-distance, we saw her hearing the noises of the struggle! Anyway, the final twist was a nice surprise (although one can wonder why this obviously very intelligent woman didn't take precautions!). Anyway, as far as I'm concerned it was entertaining enough.

This movie is stupid beyond belief. I usually understand making some scenes a little far fetched in movies to drive the story along, but in this movie it goes beyond that to the point where every scene is so SLOW, unrealistic and idiotic. For example the main actress hooks up with the villain and is in a rush to leave the next day because she has a plane to catch and senses he's weird... yet the ONLY thing she DOESN'T make sure she has is her phone?? She grabs literally every article of clothing and her purse but doesn't even think to first make sure she has the ONE thing that holds her entire life and private information....plus it has no passcode? Most normal people would look for their phone the minute they wake up in a strange home and make sure it's the one thing the have before they leave someone else's house, especially if they suspect that person is creepy. I don't think that one thing is too much realism to ask of a movie either. Plus when she finds him in her house the first time, she still didn't event think to ask for her phone back even though she knew thats how he was finding out everything about her and stalking her. Or maybe call your cell provider and ask if the phone can be hard reset or wiped since its lost in the hands of someone else? That plot point will just truly irritate you in this entire movie, I guarantee it. So to be honest, she deserved all this because she basically did it to herself plus cheated on her husband. This movie is full of bad acting, bad writing, and a semi-interesting plot that was poorly executed. She burnt evidence that could have helped prove the villain psychotic, she never reported the break in and therefore he walked free, she didn't tell her husband about how dangerous he was which could have allowed them to have high security at the wedding and take him in for stalking etc. I was just rooting for the villain to kill her the most of the time because she was genuinely so dumb and selfish the entire movie to the point where she got her one friend who helped her KILLED. She never once deserve sympathy.

A few years ago I would just call this completely unbelievable. And while I still stand by that statement, when I see how some Americans are being duped over again and again and don't seem to be able to see that ... well I guess it is not that much of a stretch for ignoring someone evil until there is an outburst of violence (do your own comparisons to the capitol attack the other week).

But back to this and I do like the actors involved in this. I like the 3 main actors in this. But even they cannot really salvage anything. Unfortunately while it starts off intriguing, it does end in disaster ... in many ways and none of them are good.