Douglas plays psychiatrist Nathan Conrad, renowned for his ability to talk to troubled teenagers and his ability for domestic multitasking [a term I proudly just made up for the purpose of this review]. Douglas is seen talking on the phone while picking up a turkey for Thanksgiving, stopping by to visit a friend at a hospital and driving through the streets of New York fairly effortlessly. Douglas plays the type of role that we've all grown accustomed to seeing him in. He's close to the perfect father of a young daughter, and a loving sponge bath giving husband to his wife who is laid up in bed with a broken leg. We all know of course, that Douglas is close to being unhinged and doing what it takes, to get the task at hand completed, and if that means breaking a few laws and stealing a few boats or guns from security guards, he'll do it without lending any thought to rationality. Oops I'm getting ahead of myself. His wife is played by Famke Janssen in a cardboard cut out role that almost any actress could have played, but hey, I'll take Famke any day of the week. Her character finds herself in bed with a broken leg from a ski accident that happened before the story starts. The broken leg unfortunately, adds nothing to the film. It doesn't add to or take away from her character. In one scene she is so helpless she can't reach the remote control that has fallen to the floor yet within a half hour she's in a different room, kicking ass and killing a bad guy a la knitting needle. So they gave her a broken leg because why? But really, these types of things are the only thing wrong with the movie. Sure the bad guys snuck hidden cameras and microphones into padded hospital rooms and the bedrooms of Upper West Side Manhattanites, but this IS a movie, and it wouldn't be an incredible story worthy of telling, if it wasn't for incredible circumstances. Otherwise we'd all be watching My Dinner With Andre type movies and wondering if Bruce Willis is up for another Die Hard.

  Anyway, long story short, a few bad guys with a bad guy leader played by an Irish chap named Koster [Sean Bean] decide that they need a 6 digit number that is locked up in the mind of this demented 18 year old girl. Her father died when she was a young girl, right in front of her, which put her in the asylum to begin with. He of course, was killed by Koster, and that dear read is where the plot thickens. She's not only a little off her game but she's also purposely "playing up" the part of an insane girl to hide from Koster and his gun toting baddie buddies. So they kidnap Michael Douglas's daughter, tell him to get his psychiatrist ass down to the asylum and extract the digits from crazy girls melon, or his daughter gets it. Famke is stuck in bed and told that they can see what she does, so if she calls the cops, the kid gets it. Get it? Good. It makes for a fun little romp and roll through a time sensitive plot that has a few twists and turns and unexpected surprises, leading us all to a very predictable but fun ending. Like I said, this movie wont win any awards, but it IS a fun movie, and it DOES have a lot of great actors doing what they do best throughout the film. All the characters are believable and that's all that can be expected. The pacing is well done, the story doesn't give up it's secrets too early, mostly because they are not really that worthy of trying to figure out ahead of time. There is no Keyser Soze in this movie, but expectations were never that high going in. If this is your style of movie, then this is a movie for you, at least this weekend.