Absolutely awful with too many flaws to count

carl_the_christian

score 1/10

This movie didn't do anything right.

It starts out with pointless boring introductions of characters by showing them talk about random things; a good movie would have jumped right into the opening conflict.

The protagonist is one of the worst characters in the movie, and therefore the viewer has no vested interest to see him survive. The villain and his methods are completely unbelievable, and the existence of said villain is just to try and add some drama to the movie, but it actually makes it worse than if the movie tried to be realistic in dealing with the situation.

There's nothing new, interesting, or creative about the movie, because of the forced chaos by the writers. The movie would have been ten times more interesting, if the characters were rational, it had a slower pace, and the movie had focused on the choices people make to determine the best ethics for who should live or die. They almost had a moment like that, but then ruined it by having the villain start to randomly choose people for no reason.

The ending was absurd, because apparently trained, armed guards are not capable of drawing a weapon on someone who tries to lunge free of those restraining them.

carl_the_christian 18 August 2017

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw3783702/