Mentally ill young lass Suki (a strong and intense portrayal by Katie Cassidy) undergoes experimental treatment in order to eradicate her more destructive multiple personalities. However, said treatment leads Suzi to think that maybe there's more to her disorder than she initially thought.

Director John Suits relates the offbeat and absorbing story at a constant pace, maintains a suitably grim'n'gritty tone throughout, does a very persuasive job of presenting Suzi's fractured mental state, and adroitly crafts a brooding gloom-doom atmosphere. Dan Schaffer's bold script offers a fascinating and provocative exploration of madness, despair, and the difficult struggle of realizing one's full potential that ultimately becomes some kind of right-on bizarre superhero origin tale.

The quirky and colorful array of weird characters add immensely to this movie's off-kilter appeal. The sound acting by the capable cast rates as another significant asset: Garret Dillahunt as Suzi's token loyal friend Hogan, Michelle Trachtenberg as the mean Alice, Eliza Dushku as no-nonsense criminal psychologist Silk, Michael Imperioli as cynical detective Moss, Billy Campbell as concerned shrink Sinclair, Gina Gershon as vampy nympho Cleo, Aslynn Yennie as brazen exhibitionist Emily, and Sasha Grey as the defeated Bunny. Mark Putnam's shadowy widescreen cinematography provides an appropriately dark look. A cool oddball flick.

The film opens with Suki (Katie Cassidy) being interrogated about murders at Juniper Towers. Suki has Dissociative Identity Disorder, i.e. multiple personalities, one of which is "The Scribbler" who writes backwards and doesn't speak. Juniper Towers is a half way house for "crazy" people, most of whom jump out of a window. She has an electrical shock machine which eliminates one of her personalities, and when she does someone in the building dies during her blackout.

The film was "Napoleon Dynamite" weird with the darkness of "Sucker Punch." The characters were memorable and quirky. The dialogue was crisp. There is symbolism such as the goldfish living in a jar being like the imprisonment of being normal. Some of my favorite lines:

"A passenger in my own body."

"Crazy people don't play by the rules."

"If I did it, it wasn't me."

"I can't talk without a pen."

This is not a film for everybody. Suki questions if she wants to be normal. It is bizarre and dark.

Parental Guidance: F-bomb, sex, nudity (Katie Cassidy- daughter of teen idol David Cassidy, Ashlynn Yennie. Oddly adult film star Sasha Grey keeps her clothes on. Must be some deleted scenes.)

Can be deceiving or just what they are ... in this case, you have to decide what they are. Based on a comic (which I haven't read),this has a different approach to some things, though it still has a predictability to it. What makes it better than some other movies in that genre, is that it did manage to get a stellar cast. You do believe those people, especially the female lead.

And while there is a lot of suspension of disbelief, it still is grounded in its themes. It's about loneliness, about life and death, things all have to face at one point or another. Which make the movie more accessible of course. Visually stunning with a few flaws, but if you like Science Fiction with a detective plot mixed into it, you'll like this