Pretty disappointing overall. The story is riddled with plot holes throughout and it is edited really bizarrely. There are weird images of weather events throughout, for absolutely no reason, as well as other visuals that make no sense with the story.
Though this is billed as a "death game with one survivor," the events are randomly either competitor vs. Competitor, or just basically "competitor dies." There is no internal logic to the people who are paired up to 'fight,' and the viewer votes don't actually do anything (seeing as sometimes a random competitor is just asked to compete for their lives, despite not being the lowest voted resident.) The characters were not bad, and the acting, though sub-par at best was not terrible. However the story developments and 'plot twists' were very, very stupid and predictable. There are also a few expository scenes where someones just speaks incredibly dumb lines into the camera, and that "dialogue" was deeply stupid.
The main bad guy also has these weird tattoos on his face for absolutely no reason. What was the point of that??
Lastly, without spoiling anything, the movie ends with a fourth wall break, very much in the vein of "Funny Games," but in this movie it just falls flat.
I wouldn't choose to see this again. Cheap Saw-wannabe, with not enough attention paid to the writing, the story and the script.
Though this is billed as a "death game with one survivor," the events are randomly either competitor vs. Competitor, or just basically "competitor dies." There is no internal logic to the people who are paired up to 'fight,' and the viewer votes don't actually do anything (seeing as sometimes a random competitor is just asked to compete for their lives, despite not being the lowest voted resident.) The characters were not bad, and the acting, though sub-par at best was not terrible. However the story developments and 'plot twists' were very, very stupid and predictable. There are also a few expository scenes where someones just speaks incredibly dumb lines into the camera, and that "dialogue" was deeply stupid.
The main bad guy also has these weird tattoos on his face for absolutely no reason. What was the point of that??
Lastly, without spoiling anything, the movie ends with a fourth wall break, very much in the vein of "Funny Games," but in this movie it just falls flat.
I wouldn't choose to see this again. Cheap Saw-wannabe, with not enough attention paid to the writing, the story and the script.