Four young men have won a trip with their favorite social network. On board the private plane that took him to New York, they are invited to participate in an in-flight entertainment: a new online gaming experience. But this is no ordinary Thurs Trapped at 30,000 feet, they will play for their lives and those of their families. They will discover the hard way that put his life online can have dire consequences ...
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In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
With the benefit of hindsight, I have to chuckle a bit as I remember the tagline that started this film off: "based on actual events reported on social media sites," or some such nonsense. Right. I don't think anything even remotely comparable to what happened in the plot of this movie has ever happened in real life or been reported, making me wonder what the point of starting it that way was. I guess that will have to remain a mystery.And, in fairness, it doesn't detract from the movie's enjoyability. I thought this was a pretty good film to be honest - appropriately creepy to start out with, getting more and more frightening as it went on, and with a decent enough twist at the end. It looks pretty low budget, with a largely unknown (to me at least) cast and a set which would have to be described as minimalistic. Pretty much the whole story takes place on a private jet, so there was no great expense involved in making the sets. The story has four people, who are users of a social media site called "all2together" being rewarded with a trip to New York City on board this jet - the prize apparently having been offered by the site. But the winners are to play a social media game on the way, and they have to agree to play the game to the end. Here's where we see some connections with real life. There's an old saying (or at least a new old saying, since social media, I suppose, is still a fairly recent phenomenon) that whatever goes online stays online - so don't post anything you might regret later. That's a lesson pretty much all of us should learn. Really - how many of us would want everything we've ever posted or watched or visited on the internet to become public knowledge? In truth, I've received angry emails from total strangers who've disagreed with movie reviews I've posted here! I was threatened once (online) by a person who didn't like me commenting on a post he had put on a public discussion board. True enough. The internet can be a strange place! Well, the four winners of our contest learn that lesson very quickly. It seems that everything they've ever posted - and more than that, every website they've ever visited and every video they've ever watched online - is known to, well, whoever it is who's got them on the plane. This is the creepy part. Whoever it is (he's represented on computer monitors as a talking snake, reminiscent of the serpent of the Garden of Eden) knows intimate details about them and uses them to create distrust and even enmity between the players. With the beginning, the story continues to progress to the point at which the consequences involved with not playing the game properly (and, eventually, we discover that there are consequences to playing the game at all) become quite terrifying.There are some credibility issues involved with this. The tormenter of the group knows TOO much about them - things that, to me, wouldn't become known just from a person's online profile or a person's websurfing or webposting history. But that's part of the creepiness. Credible? Perhaps not - but movies like this don't necessarily need credibility. It worked to create an atmosphere, and in the end it does make a point. Back to that new old saying - be careful what you put online, because what goes online stays online. Its pretty good advice. Point taken. (8/10)
This movie is in the tradition of the SAW sequences but a lot less attractive/interesting, less bloody OK but I rather watch a SAW movie than this one. Especially the very unsatisfying end. After watching the end you get the bad feeling like "I watched this movie for nothing", a regret to take time to watch it. The movie starts OK, interesting, in the beginning you think this movie exposes the threats of social media but along the way it gets too ugly and unrealistic. Forget about this movie, it's worthless. The thing I really oppose is the threaten of a child by the "bad guy", should be forbidden in movies like this. Really awful.
"Interesting" as another reviewer put it. But kind of worn out too. You wish they'd actually care about the characters they write or portray. It feels very unnatural and very cliché (especially towards the ending) and does not really get you involved. And it started out so good. You have no idea who those guys and the tension gets almost unbearable at the beginning.But all that doesn't matter in the end. Because the movie throws any logic out the window (no pun intended) and tries to stick with a known formula. It doesn't work out that good for the movie. While not the worst movie, you have to be a fan of the genre to take the time to watch this.
I wanted to give it a 1/2 star instead of a full star, but I couldn't figure how to do it.The premise seemed promising at the beginning, but everything started to fall off after about 15 minutes into the movie.The acting is terrible; the characters aren't even remotely interesting. You can't sympathize or hate(for that matter) any of the characters.The ending is absolutely meaningless! And when the credit rolls you involuntarily spit in your soda.British cinema used to be great, but alas; it's gone Hollywood. We're all awaiting its return.