Cutting room disaster? I feel like this could have been really good but wasn't. The acting is good, the plot is solid at first glance but could give more to scene and character development, the imagery is beautiful and nauseating at the same time and not given the time it deserved. It feels like a movie that died on the cutting room floor. More time could have been spend reviewing the crime scene. They put a hell of a lot of work into the special effects of the victims and the bodies could have been shown more. That may sound gruesome but when they are stating that each crime scene is a recreation of a famous artwork then you need to really be able to see and study the body posing. Also the fact that they all have specific knowledge of every work of art didn't feel like it rang true. If they had to work more to figure out what art was being referenced and had to research and dig to figure some of them out it would have seemed more likely. They showed all of the crime scenes very very briefly and it made finding the art/crime imagery parallels nearly impossible. More time spent developing the details of the art and the possible meanings and motives would have helped to round all of it out. It feels like this was good originally and cut badly. If not that then the script writer got lazy with the details. They should had made the transitions of Canon meeting and working with people shown in more depth because it felt like every new cop/reporter he began to collaborate with was introduced too briefly and it gave the movie a choppy feel. This could be great, but it wasn't.