An Exercise In Nonsense

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Blistering performances.

I bought the BluRay real cheap and did not know what to expect. I am a very critic when it comes to movies but as soon watchers start to complain about a movie being predictable I can assure you , these people can't even point out why a movie is NOT predictable ....They are so easily debunked . And the vast majority of movies are predictable and thus actually boring! Depends on old you are and how many movies one had seen also . The graphics in this movie are great actually, I've seen hollywood 'blockbusters' with lesser graphics and no one was complaining about this in these movies I suspect prejudice , that is all. How the story begins indeed is strange, you get launched directly into 'the game', with a thin explanation during the movie , all the info is there , but you need to watch the movie instead of just 'looking ' at it. Was this done a bit different I would give this movie even a 7 out of 10 , satisfying movies for me always get a 6 and I seldom judge a movie into the 8 category.

Don't waste your time watching the movie. The premise could be promising but does not work at all.We do not get to know the people before the game, we do not care about who wins and we can easily predict who will die next and the "twist" towards the end is not clever at all and hard as a viewer to comprehend what is really going on at all since the movie does not even try to establish a universe around his protagonists.The visuals are not great either, of course this is not a blockbuster or a million dollar production but you could have done with less. This looks like it tries to be a very trashy Matrix like movie.The soundtrack is not great either and does not carry any emotion or suspense and is just beeping in the background.The actors are not outstanding either. There are a couple of expressive faces but the movies quickly kills off every character to even really let them try to even carry their role.It has been a long time since I have seen something so bad. Try to avoid this movie if you don't want to have a 90 minute snoozefest.

This movie is a waste of your time. It's about a dystopic future where no one is any longer interested in TV-shows or movies. It is just not thrilling enough anymore for the most of the people, so a new show "Mafia" was invented. 10 normal people and 2 Prisoners play this game by their free will. Clue is that the winner will gain 1 Billion Dollars and the losers will get nothing or even die, while they are playing the game. The players just vote from round to round to decide who is one of the two Mafia-members and has to confront his greatest fear and possibly die if they can't get over it. So a very flat story ... . A film like this lives (in my opinion) of good actors and of very good written stories of the lives/background of the players. But you will get none of this. They try to Tell you a short story about everyone to explain their motivations to join "Mafia", but everything is treated/discussed way to short and you wont get a feeling for them. Also you don't believe the reactions and feelings of the players they show each other. Not like in carnage for example.