'Glass House' needs a rock thrown through it

The Glass House" is without a doubt the all-time worst movie I have ever seen. I am not saying this as an exaggeration, but as a plain fact. Nothing about it is good. It teeters on an agonizing line rarely seen in film today, being bad enough to agitate but not bad enough to amuse. \nThe trailers ruin any possible shred of suspense by giving away the evil-guardian plot, but perhaps that was in order to give the audience hope that the ambiguous nonsense of the film's first half would go somewhere. Unfortunately, right when the first half ended the second half began, and the audience's hope was cruelly dashed by an absurd but predictable "climax." In fact, I'm not sure an audience was even necessary, because I did not hear one laugh, scream, gasp or yawn that pertained to the film. A few people got up to leave, but that was it. The only audience that would appreciate it would be the two robots from "Mystery Science Theater," but even they might get too bored to be funny.\nAfter Ruby Baker's (Leelee Sobieski) parents are killed in a car accident, she and her younger brother go to live with the Glasses, who actually live in a glass house. One day, there will be laws against that kind of absurdity. To Ruby's dismay, she learns that her guardian father (Stellan Skarsgard) is in debt to some thugs, and he has learned about the $4 million inheritance from Mr. and Mrs. Baker. This sets off the inevitable battle between the guardians and the kids, as well as the obligatory struggle between the siblings, because little brother Rhett has been "bought off" with video games. But setting up this predictable storyline took so much time, that the writers found themselves in a tough spot with no action and no character development. \nThat was one of the film's many problems: it couldn't decide whether its main character would be explored psychologically as a suffering child who'd lost her parents or as a chess piece to move along the action of the plot. I felt a little bit sorry for Sobieski, because she is a much better actress than this film allowed her to be. Her character's feelings towards other characters shift from like to dislike and back again, even within the same scene. She doesn't seem like a real person, but the plot's action is so poor that we have no choice but to try and look at her as one. The movie also has difficulty deciding when to end: the kids seem to be safe with a policeman as the camera pulls back on a giant crane shot with sad music, but then three minutes later there is a "twist"