He spent five months existing on chicken breasts and steamed broccoli, circuit training to the point of nausea every day, to play a serial killer in a film that failed to recoup its budget by $10m, has an 11% Rotten Tomatoes score, got nominated for a Razzie, was so badly received that plans for a sequel were indefinitely shelved, and was labelled as "cloddish, slapdash, gracelessly written, and visually fugly" by Entertainment Weekly.