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The Wikipedia summary makes clear that this is a polarising film - either you think it's a clever homage to Agatha Christie's 'And Then There Were None', or it's a ludicrous rip-off. There was only one way for me to to find out where I sat on this spectrum. Over the opening credits we learn that Malcolm is a convicted mass murderer who is about to be executed, and we meet Dr Mallick (Alfred Molina), his psychiatrist. We also learn that because of some last-minute new evidence, an emergency hearing has been arranged in the middle of the night, for the judge in the case to decide whether to stay Malcolm's execution. After this preliminary scene-setting we then switch to an isolated motel where ten characters take shelter from a torrential downpour which has rendered many local roads impassable. Then one by one they start to get murdered. Here I had a minor niggle: together with the dodgy motel manager we have eleven potential victims rather than the te...