Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Heather This is just a film about stupid people with no common sense or any idea about how the law works. Find myself getting so angry that one she doesn't just walk out and two, that the manager is even more dumb. How anyone would not realise cops don't phone like this and people can't hold you because of a voice in a phone. Infuriating in the first 15 mins, trust me.

ashleighscarlett137 True story or not - I refuse to believe people are this stupid.

Simone Baig So, first of all, this movie did it. It did make me create an IMDb account after years using this website...'Cause it frickin' p***ed me off big time.This is the one part in which this movie scores high. It's deeply upsetting, frustrating, infuriating, disgusting, baffling, flabbergasting, and what not. I can't imagine this not leaving an emotional response in anyone.Some stars also are due to the fact that it IS well shot, the actors are doing a decent job and the score is okay-ish too.The story roughly summed up is about a fast food joint manager receiving a call from a 'police officer' claiming he needs her 'help' to investigate the theft of some money one of her young female employees supposedly stole. And the manager as well as many other people in the restaurant all to readily...comply...to anything the voice on the phone asks them to do to the young girl.The reason I can only give it four stars is...the story. Without putting any spoilers it suffices to say the story as well as almost every single protagonist's reactions are unbelievably implausible. Nothing makes sense. And already after 10 minutes you'll want to yell at the screen 'What the heck is wrong with you people? Did somebody take a dump into your brains?'.So if you watch this movie without any background knowledge, you'll probably stop halfway for the nonesensity of it all......and if you DO know that this is a 100% true story...well, there is two possible reactions...(I'll get back to that) Somebody here wrote something along the lines of 'come off your high horses', 'you don't know how YOU'd react in a situation like this', yadi yada...I am sorry, but in my part of the world this kind of thing would NOT happen (anymore...thank god). People are disobedient and partly disrespecting towards authorities to a point where you almost feel sorry for our police force. Even the most uneducated people know their basic human rights darn well and they'll insist on them. Everyone knows what the police can and cannot do, what a civilian can and cannot do to another person ordered by a second person or not. Stores usually even have fixed procedures how to handle police related matters. So, no, I cannot relate to the plot, nor do I think could anybody from my country...or any European country for that matter...So here are the two possible reactions you can have to that movie.A) You find the plot laughable, improbable to the point of being impossible and allover disgusting. Congratulations! You grew up in a sane part of this world.B) You do find it shocking but you can relate to the probability of it all and find it likely to occur frequently or worse yet this has happened to you or somebody you know. In that case I am really really sorry! This movie IS important for you and your environment. It should be made mandatory to watch, followed by a in-depth propagation of basic human rights in all available media in your area until everyone can recite them by heart! In such case measures like this are badly needed! You wouldn't believe how shocking it was for me as a non-American who keeps hearing news about how US-Americans value their constitutional right to own a gun for self defense so much, to read here that (seemingly some of) the same people would find it plausible for some people to comply with supposed authority to such extend without questioning it for one second.So wherever this holds true, yes, this is an important movie...Go for it.For anyone else...skip it. You won't enjoy it and if suffer all the way through it you'll have a hard time to wrap your head around the fact this happened in the supposed Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.Sad allover. Wouldn't ever watch it again, nor recommend it to anyone I know...'cause there's no need.

sforrester-3 This is one of those "truth is often stranger than fiction" films. I agree with other reviewers that if this had been a work of complete fiction, I would probably have switched off after half an hour. As I knew it was all a true, if probably somewhat diluted, version of actual events I just sat there growing more and more disbelieving at every turn of events. It ended up being a fascinating and sickening look at how little we actually question authority and how far some people actually are willing to go when given "permission". I guess it's easy to sit and watch thinking "I wouldn't have done this or I wouldn't have done that" but this story just shows how many of us have been conditioned not to question authority and to basically do as we are told. As for the film itself, the acting was good and if you have the stomach for it, I would give it a go...it is an eye opener and certainly makes you think.