Solemplex
To me, this movie is perfection.
Wordiezett
So much average
Voxitype
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
flatbeddriver
Never leave reviews but had to after watching this. I very much enjoyed the story line, effects, and acting. This movie is seriously underrated. Morfydd Clark is an actress I'd never heard of and found her both gorgeous and entertaining. I'd like to see more of her work.
Definitely worth relaxing and watching.
Andariel Halo
What ever the idea behind this awful plot was in-universe, it has all the settings of being needlessly cruel and brutal and it just makes me angry.
some random company lures a bunch of video gamers with the promise of $100,000 to the winner to a modern warfare VR game, but the catch is, if you die in the game, you die for real!
it's so hackneyed and overused it's painful, and it never ceases to make me genuinely angry.
the kids are basically lied to, told to put on the gaming suits and compete, not told about any of the dangers at all. A VR drill sergeant basically tortures them as much as the virtual enemy does, at one point actively interfering with the game and breaking one of the player's legs, effectively killing him as the others have to leave him behind for his brutal leg wound to get infected and have him die.
maybe it's just me, but this is the kind of setup that would make me so incredibly angry that I would refuse to comply with orders, shoot and kill the VR sergeant when he comes threatening me, and if that doesn't work, shoot and kill everyone then kill myself, out of pure, white-hot raging spite.
nothing else in this bland movie interests me beyond that. That's all I can fixate on. The whole thing is a total fraudulent setup. it's not clear if all of them are expert FPS video gamers or if maybe one or two of them is an expert at friggin World of Warcraft. Even if they were experts, they have no trainings and no experience with actual weaponry or modern warfare tactics. They all get one "medipack" that instantly heals them if shot, and that's it. After that they basically die for real. it's a pointless exercise just to murder a bunch of teenagers and young adults, and it's infuriating that they go along instead of refuse and defy these scumbags the whole way down.
jordan_smith-51278
this movie was very surprising in the level of quality it offers, it's story was very unique and the characters were very well developed and acted. which brings me to the actors, they weren't A list or B list actors but were all really good. the effects and general layout of the virtual world were really well designed.final verdict: definitely worth the watch for any action or sci-fi fan.
Leor
I saw the film at a sci-fi festival and found the premise absolutely engaging. Without giving away too much of the story, this is one of those movies that grabs something familiar from the contemporary world and takes it to the extreme, with fascinating consequences. Mixing VR and reality is the holy grail of gamers, but the sort of scenario described here is chilling, to say the least. Funnily, the writer-director takes every trope of the first-person shooter and turns it into a clever detail. And that's where most of the fun comes from. The characters conveniently follow the group casting of any slasher, with all the classic types and a couple of surprises. Maybe I would have wished these characters to be a bit more explored and a little less action scenes, but you can't fault this film for doing what most FPS do! Good fun
