I agree with ita. I think a lot of folks would have acted as Eddie did. Why stop at the small potatoes available through writing and make as much dough as possible as fast as possible? The thing I could't understand was why would Atwater have his attorney get Eddie out of his murder investigation when he could have gotten him out of the way by just letting things take their course? I mean, he had his henchman chasing him all over and nearly kill his girlfriend! I can't believe that all Atwater wanted was his stash of pills when they were so clearly killing him.
All that stuff bugged me, but I still enjoyed the movie a lot. My daughter asked me part way through if I didn't like the movie because I kept sighing. I told her my sighs were because I was holding my breath so much, when I remembered to breath I would take in a huge breath to make up for the deficit. It really did a good job of building up the suspense over and over.