Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Written by morons, directed by a moron, overall a bad student attempt to make a film. The narrative pleads for some intelligence to at least throw in some plot events which would make it less amateur. Why oh why would these fools not even question their wristbands, surely that would be the first item to get rid of. The characters are poorly scripted archetypes based on well tired understandings of women and men as baseless characters in a reality TV show. Is the moral of the story that students need to get themselves out of debt by avoiding a plutocracy embedded in the culture of retarded drama of the worst kind.

The movie starts out very good; you go into it expecting a good "who done it?" type of thriller, but then it goes downhill with the suspect killing people for no good reason (that is revealed in the movie anyway), it quickly became Michael Myers in Halloween movie .The suspect offers the scientist a choice, then after killing 99% of the people participating in the study he still goes ahead and kills the scientist anyway. Why bother kill all those people then, then leave alive the person with the highest drug dose in her system? The movie ends with too many questions, even the killers motive is uncertain at the end of the movie.

This was a pretty good spin on a thriller - being in a clinical trial for a new drug that targets "feelings". However, it drags on and on with future flashes and then back to where it started that you get dizzy thinking "If you know what's gonna happen, then why not try and avoid it". However you then realize it's like telling a teenager not to text while behind the wheel, only for them to be in a horrible car wreck because...you guessed it, they were texting behind the wheel. In other words, yah just can't tell people not to do something. Even if they know they'll die doing it. The acting wasn't too terrible. There were plenty of times I rolled my eyes at the execution or timing of the script. That just kindah goes with the territory of a thriller - they almost get it right but not always. I won't chalk this up to a total waste of time as there were a few moments that make you go hmmmmm, but overall, especially during the ending you wonder why yah stuck it out as surely you could tell the future that things weren't gonna end on a good note so why bother. But then again, yah just can't tell someone that (not even yourself) cuz even if they know the flicks not gonna end good they still dedicate the time spent knowing they'll never be able to get that time back. This review may seem like going over the same circle but be forewarned, it's exactly what you'll take away from this 4 out of 10 flick/mess. You may ask yourself why 4, why not 2 or 3 if I didn't like it. Well, I'm sick of indie flicks that are done on a 2 or 3 thousand dollar budget and this one appeared as though they spent some money on clothes, location, setting, lighting, and more then 3 characters which was refreshing.

The movie was already mediocre in terms of acting and editing. But what really bothered me was the amateurish mistake halfway into the movie. Basically at one point, the test subjects find out they're being watched behind the glass doors and acted surprised, the blonde girl says "they've been watching us this whole time" as if she didn't expect it.. However, at the beginning of the movie, the doctor clearly stated that they will be monitored the whole time there... Not to mention the fact that they've signed up to be test subjects in a science facility.. being monitored is completely normal in these type of trials. Terrible writing IMO