Panic Button
Panic Button
| 27 August 2011 (USA)
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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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Ketrivie

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

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Teddie Blake

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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Leoni Haney

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

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Scotty Burke

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

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Michael Ledo

First off Scarlett Alice Johnson is not the same as Scarlett Johansson.Four young adults win a trip to NYC from a social networking web site. On board the plane they take part in a game, which quickly grows uncomfortable and has deadly consequences for mistakes. Dave is obnoxious and we learn likes kiddie porn and is a hot head. Jo is an alcoholic. Gwen is still a virgin and Max is a liar.You have an unseen man with a voice distorter barking out orders. Jo is set up as the "Final Girl" as she is the only one we see before the airport. The film is fairly easy to predict...what task would you have a virgin do? Guide: F-word. Sex. No nudity.

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sddavis63

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)

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WildWombatt

For a low budget film, this movie is just okay.I found the story line lacking and that it was not interesting at all. The actors/actresses executed their parts alright, but I saw nothing very captivating throughout the whole film. Dialogue was below decent, I felt it was more like a college/high school play. I honestly gave this movie the benefit of the doubt after hearing from other people telling me that it wasn't a good movie.The only reason why I even finished this movie - was to see the ending. In all, I felt this movie wasted my time. Story was pretty boring !If you're into some action and are curious of the story line, I'd give it a go. Besides that, I would not recommend.

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neil_burney

in account of other horror films ranked higher than this i really enjoyed it, not too predictable, good storyline and British! I don't really understand the references to the similarities to saw ( which i hate)yes it's repentant ultimately but that's about it. the vast majority of horrors recently have a good build up leading to lukewarm inevitable demons ending which is a dull cliché. this film leaves you guessing until the end. the budget is cheap clearly but it doesn't detract from the atmosphere which i found was pretty tense throughout. in summary social network massive build up- hugely disappointed/ panic button poor reviews- really enjoyed!

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