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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Oh, the irony! I enjoy watching Danny Dyer movies, simply because they're so laughably bad, but this one is so bad it's dreadful. The script is terrible, the story nonsensical, the music is bizarre, the acting reminds me of secondary school drama class and for the most part, relatively little happens. There is a storyline and some action does occur eventually, but by the time it happens you'll probably either have stopped watching or nodded off. I've given it 3 out of 10 and the only reason it wasn't a 1 was because Danny made me laugh so much. From his "I want to be somebody" line to his comical run, Danny brings some (no doubt unintentional) humour to proceedings. There is also a great moment where Danny says: "I've done something terrible, and I've got to live with it for the rest of my life". He delivers the line so well that one can only assume that he was thinking about this movie.

Five anti-war protesters are on the way home from a demonstration. They stop in the woods for a toilet break, discover a strange hatch and get trapped inside. Gradually, they are picked off one by one, by masked figures, until it is revealed to the sole survivor, and us, what has happened.This could have been a good film, and early on there are some moments which have the potential to be scary. The idea of being trapped underground, with no-one knowing you're there, and no way of contacting the outside world, reminded me of the more successfully done film The Hole, the sense of being lost evoked the Blair Witch Project while the idea of being attacked by unknown assailants in darkness harks back to The Descent. The attempt to work a political issue (protesting against the war) into the plot gives the film an almost topical feel which has the potential to lift it above the usual teens in terror B movie.Lois Winstone is from good British actor stock - her father being Ray Winstone, and her sister Lois was one of the standout actors in Kidulthood. So I was looking forward to seeing whether the star quality would rub off here. She has a very small role, however, along with a poor script so it's difficult to comment. Danny Dyer is a reasonably established British actor, although he seems to be sleep-walking through this role. Neither he, nor the other male character is likable, and the minimal development of their characters does little to endear them to us. Dyer's character has a father who died in the war, and through flashbacks it is revealed that he knows more than the others about their predicament. The other male character is a dreary city boy. Both are awful boorish stereotypes - lots of "Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you" to the females, along with boring male posturing. Are people still doing that? The three women, on the other hand are even less developed. Their role seems to be to look scared and react.Once inside the basement, there is a lot of walking around, some running around, some getting lost, some getting attacked by shadowy figures, some arguing, some more walking around, more arguing... It gets repetitive pretty fast. The characters are so dislikable and stupid: "Let's split up!" that you are willing something bad to happen to them. By the end, when the "awful truth" is revealed, it's difficult to care. If you are a Danny Dyer fan, and simply must see this, wait until this has been discounted and get it for £3. Otherwise, watch The Hole.

Worst movie I've ever seen. When I looked it up on IMDb, it was rated a 9. I am now 100% sure that it was their family and friends who gave the ratings. This movie was an absolute waste of time. Please save your money and time.Nothing in this movie made any sense. It was completely ridiculous. To the film makers: Please never make another movie in your life. You are completely clueless. How can you even release such trash?If you think I'm being mean, think again. I am actually being nice for how horrible it was.Yes, it was seriously THAT bad.

* This does contains Spoilers, although I'm not sure it matters as it still doesn't make sense even after having watched Basement.I love Syfy channel films, I love B-Movies whereby horror films turn into comedy and special effects could be created on Blue Peter. I can enjoy them, what I didn't enjoy was spending £4.99 to watch Basement and come out of the film having not known what I just watched.The acting wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but taking into consideration not even the best actors could have worked with such an awful script I won't let this influence the rest of my review.We are told virtually nothing of the characters, I came to the conclusion they are University students who attend anti-war protests. That's all well and good, but that's it. I didn't care about any of them, and the more or less non-existent character development only lead me to dislike them.Films like this are guaranteed to contact the odd cliché, not Basement; their logic and decisions they make throughout the course of the film is unreal that I give it credit for being unique.Gary who we know a little more about in that he works for an unknown Company and has to make the 'toughest decision he'll ever have to make'. Little of what he does makes any sense, and although his role does become a little clearer as the film progresses, this only added to my confusion as his motives are entirely unknown. After the initial 15 minutes he served no purpose, although this is an improvement over the others who served no purpose at all.The ending of the film was quite fitting to be honest, I waited for something to click and explain everything but the credits started rolling before. Maybe I'm being overly critical, there is a story to be found in there even if it doesn't make sense and the first 10 minutes weren't too bad.It would be unfair to say this is the worst film I've seen, but I would go as far as saying it's the most pointless.Nothing deserves a 0/10, but this comes close.