Nothing anywhere near perfect, or even super logical, but I still enjoyed watching 'Looking Glass'.

It builds up the tension and darkness well, with the ghost town feel to everything. The cinematography, particularly the lighting, is rather nice. The premise and its execution, while intriguing, does have problems, but the two leads are fun to watch.

Nicolas Cage (Ray) and Robin Tunney (Maggie) make for a good pairing, both give satisfactory performances. Marc Blucas is, I thought anyway, pretty decent in his role as Howard; though the writing does let his character down. Other negatives for the film include the average music and crappy opening credits.

Overall though, I felt suitably entertained by this.

LOOKING GLASS is yet another low budget thriller put out by the hard-working Nicolas Cage, who seems to be churning them out in a definite case of quantity over quality at present. He plays half of a married couple (THE CRAFT actress Robin Tunney is his wife) who run an old motel which turns out to have secret passageways and the like in order to enable voyeurism. Cage himself becomes a voyeur and half the running time consists of him watching the usual sexual situations play out. This is all very mundane and a heavyset Cage is particularly unconvincing, with that wire beard looking quite laughable. A few weird events occur (a pig carcass in the swimming pool, for instance) before a twist ending which is so obvious as to be not worth bothering with.

Following the death of their six year old daughter, handyman Ray (Nicolas Cage) and Maggie (Robin Tunney) buy a motel in a small town from an ad on Craig's List. After the transaction, the old owner doesn't want to be found. Ray discovers the small town doesn't like newcomers. He also discovers a crawl way with a two way mirror in room 10 and that his motel is frequently used for prostitution.

The problems mount as the body count goes up. Deputy Howard (Marc Blucas) has his eye on Ray.

This is a run of the mill Cage film. The voyeur aspect was just a small aspect of the film and not as exploited as most "b" films. We had to settle for the multifaceted facial expression of Nicolas Cage for entertainment.

Guide: F-word. Implied sex. No nudity.