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This movie was terrible and commits the greatest offense a movie can commit: it was just plain boring.
It starts interesting enough. Several gamers are brought together to participate in a contest to win some money. The contest is to survive VR simulation combat. Then things go wrong and they start dying for real from what happens in the simulation.
However, there is no mystery or thriller aspect to the movie, no character development to speak of, no exciting action, no interesting deaths, there is nothing of interest at all really.
The characters don't try to figure out what is going on or make more than a passing attempt to subvert or destroy the system, they just continue to play the game and die in uninteresting ways. Similarly, the characters know from the beginning that one of their number is a plant of the people behind the game, but again there is nothing more than a cursory attempt to identify which of them is the bad guy.
Overall, the movie reminds me of watching a friend play an FPS when they are skipping all the cutscenes.
SPOILERS: The end doesn't make the movie worthwhile and answers absolutely no questions about why any of this has happened, committing the second greatest sin of a movie in providing no closure. The only bright spot was the small twist of the one surviving character killing the character that was secretly the bad guy all along.
This movie was boring, boring, boring. If you really want to watch it, then watch the beginning and when you get bored of watching the characters wander through the game, just skipped to the end and save yourself some time.
This movie was terrible and commits the greatest offense a movie can commit: it was just plain boring.
It starts interesting enough. Several gamers are brought together to participate in a contest to win some money. The contest is to survive VR simulation combat. Then things go wrong and they start dying for real from what happens in the simulation.
However, there is no mystery or thriller aspect to the movie, no character development to speak of, no exciting action, no interesting deaths, there is nothing of interest at all really.
The characters don't try to figure out what is going on or make more than a passing attempt to subvert or destroy the system, they just continue to play the game and die in uninteresting ways. Similarly, the characters know from the beginning that one of their number is a plant of the people behind the game, but again there is nothing more than a cursory attempt to identify which of them is the bad guy.
Overall, the movie reminds me of watching a friend play an FPS when they are skipping all the cutscenes.
SPOILERS: The end doesn't make the movie worthwhile and answers absolutely no questions about why any of this has happened, committing the second greatest sin of a movie in providing no closure. The only bright spot was the small twist of the one surviving character killing the character that was secretly the bad guy all along.
This movie was boring, boring, boring. If you really want to watch it, then watch the beginning and when you get bored of watching the characters wander through the game, just skipped to the end and save yourself some time.