You won't be disappointed!

Lack of good storyline.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

The first thing that I noticed about the movie is the bad acting. Specifically Robert Olding and Jessica Landon. Robert Olding was a tad bit better than the rest of the cast but not much. Jessica Landon seriously needs to take some acting lessons. The rest of the crew can follow. Danielle Bitton looked like a soft porn starlet. The second thing that noticed about the movie was the scene jumping. One scene jumped to the next and made no sense. I felt like quitting the movie because of this. I decided to stick with it to see if the ending would tie the plot together as it usually does in movies that make absolutely no sense. This one didn't. The Polaroid taken of Jacob and Carmen being married absolutely did not jive with the ending showing Jacob being on death row for 12 years because he molested Carmen and accidentally kills her as a child. I am as confused about what was really going on in the movie at the end as I was in the beginning. If this movie had better actors, producers, directors and writers to change the terrible script it could be a real box office hit. Oh and change the name to something that jives more with the movies instead of "A Secret Handshake". The movie plot never revealed how this came to be the name of the movie.Martin Scorcese should give Harsha Wardhan some serious directing tips.

In a top 100 best movies this one would be on 2826351281 :). Everything is awful,from the starting credits,the acting,the music, subject etc. The way it is filmed reminds of a high-school movie/2nd hand horror movie, and the lines seem to be written by a guy that watched 20 teenager movies, 10 horror ones and some documentaries on Discovery Channel. If you want to torture some relatives that came over to visit you or you want to scare some friends with your movie taste this movie is perfect....just say that it is your favorite movie and ask them to watch it ,and after that you will not hear from them too soon. I always thought that "Dog Soldiers" is a bad movie....but this one is even worse. As a conclusion.....press Stop after the first 5 minutes of the movie and try watching something else.

This movie feels like it was a senior art school project conceived and executed on too much acid. If it had been 15 minutes long I might have appreciated it as amusing but thankfully it went on long enough to exhibit every possible limitation of writing, acting and directing ability that this team could share. With a bit more effort at emotion on the "actors" parts, that is if they weren't just friends of the director, it could have claimed to be camp. I guess I watched the whole thing, while asking myself why many times, because I couldn't give up hope that there was some point to my torture only to be rewarded with an ending just a couple steps up from it was just a dream, on the triteometer. And what's up with both the director and writer having the same first name: Harsha? Is that Hindi for, 'Don't make a movie with a someone who's also named Harsha'?

i just rented this for the weekend and i guess this will take me the whole weekend to watch it, because i will have to watch it in at least 3 steps.why? because it is so freakin badly produced!! the story really sounds interesting, maybe everyone who has not spend already $5 for renting the DVD should stick to the book. i really tried to watch this, but after 15 minutes it was just too hard for me to stick to it.the acting is way less than amateur level, the sound mixing is just meaningless, camera works is awful, the lightning is a joke as it is completely random and to sum it up it is impossible to watch. i have seen TV productions for local cable stations that beat this by miles. what kills me the most and ultimately drove me to turn it off was the acting. i could have lived with all the major flaws, just for the stories sake, but the acting is unbelievably bad.where did the half a million dollars go? Darren Aronofsky's pi was made with 60.000 dollars and beats this movie one every level. $ 500.000 for this movie? for what? hopefully someone buys the script and makes another version of this movie. as i wrote i will force me to watch this through the weekend, because the story really sounds tempting, but this one ain't gonna be easy.