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Jeezus sorry I'm not a master of literature!!??!! sorry I don't, know where, to put, a comma,.
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I saw the trailer for this movie some time ago and had high expectations for it but after watching, I am sorely dissapointed. It's basically a boring, tired, rip off of 'The Ring' except it's a video game instead of a video tape. The idea for this film is a good one but the script and execution is not, it could have been so much more than what it is. The movie was released in theatres in 2006 to luke-warm reviews from critics and therefore completely bombed at the box-office and I'm glad i didn't waste money in going to see it.
After one of Hutch's (Jon Foster) friends die one night after playing the video game 'Stay Alive' he is handed a black bag full of his friends possesions which his friend wanted him to have. One of Hucth's other friends, October (Sophia Bush) discovers the game. Being a hard-core gaming fan, she's never heard of this one before and becomes excited and intrigued so she sets up an evening of gaming of 'Stay Alive' with some of her friends including Hutch, Abigail (Samaire Armstrong), Swink (Frankie Muniz), Phineas (Jimmi Simpson) and Miller (Adam Goldberg).
After Miller's character dies in the game at the hands of Elizabeth Bathory who the game is based on they all start to get a little freaked out by how scary (which it's not!) the game is. Inevitably like the Hutch's friend in the beginning of the movie Miller is found dead the next morning and Hutch begins to put the pieces together. He realises that his friend and Miller, after seeing his body, have both died in real-life the same way they died in the game. Realising this he informs all the others of what he thinks is going on who at first think he's just over-reacting, that it's all just a co-incidence but when freaky things start happening to each of them they suddenly begin to believe Hutch and what ensues is a frantic search to find out who is behind this deadly game and put a stop to it.
Well, the game/flm is based on Elizabeth Bathory, known as the Countess Dracula after the horrific murders she carried out in Hungary in the 17th century, who has apparently suddenly decided to take a trip to America, create and develop a video game in a rented house (whose address the main characters of the movie find on the internet) and to top it all off, put a curse on the game so that everyoe who turns on their PS2 to play this game dies!
The story to say the least is one of the most far fetched dumb ideas in many many years. It also makes a mockery out of the legend that is Elizabeth Bathory and treats you with the same intelligence that it's characters have...zero. They just don't seem to learn from each others mistakes whatsoever (they keep playing the game, instead of just turning it off, knowing that if they die in it they die in real-life too) so you don't feel for any of them, you just want the countess to get it over and done with before you fall asleep. It's a tired, uninventive movie with a less than impressive ending that hopefully doesn't mean a sequel that you will have forgotten about by the morning...or maybe a couple of minutes after. Very very dissapointing...
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I just watched this the other day and although i agree with many of your comments i found the story quite intruging. Good review tho
Vheissu 12.04.2007 18:19
sounds like a good premise for a film, shame they've obviously not taken advantage of a good idea though. still, Sophia Bush being in it will get me checking it out no matter what. Alex
aphenderson 05.11.2006 21:56
Thanks for the review. I'll make sure I avoid this one!
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