**1/2 – A premise that would make for a good 30 minute episode of “The Twilight Zone” is stretched out to an hour and a half long feature in this somewhat intriguing but extremely slow moving horror/thriller. The chick who was bopping Gerard Butler in “300” stars in this as a radiologist who thinks all of her relatives are being methodically replaced by evil doppelgangers after she is injured in a car accident. Both the horror and thriller aspects of this film are very subdued but relatively effective as a tense, mysterious atmosphere is created with the nice visuals and mostly solid performances. The twist ending is fairly easy to guess beforehand, but is still neat enough that its lack of surprise doesn’t detract from the overall experience. My main beef is with the very slow pace and plethora of unnecessary added and extended shots and scenes that seem to have the sole purpose of padding the length. Had the reasons for the doppelgangers’ appearances - or possibly some back story (of which there is none whatsoever) - been inserted in place of long pointless shots of skylines and whatnot, it would have been much more satisfying.
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