![]() It's a pity that this kind of ingenious lo-fi horror is so often lost in the shadow of dismal Hollywood remakes. This descent could have been unconvincing, but as the laughter fades and the camera becomes unfixed, the effect is quite involving. But there is real quality here, not least in the four central performances, superbly depicting the rapid mental decline as the dire situation dawns: that they've been given the trip of a lifetime, and it looks like it'll be the last of their lives. One may well be left with the feeling that this is a desperately topical film, cashing in on the current trends for horror games and social networking - and this is not an unreasonable response. The 18 certificate (in the UK) seems harsh, given the recent, similarly-budgeted excesses of Tom Six and Srðan Spasojeviæ, from which this is a mercifully far cry. ![]() Inevitably, perhaps, the tension gives way to more visceral final act, but Crow's camera never lingers or leers. This is a slow-burning, character-based ensemble piece, tightly written and unfussily directed, which takes our web-based fears and makes them monstrously manifest not only our anxiety about identity theft, but also touching upon our perceived anonymity, leading as it does to a sense of invulnerability - and from behind that veil, the screenwriters suggest, we are free to act upon our cruellest base desires with virtual immunity. Gore 1/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5ĭespite some of the marketing, Chris Crow's zeitgeisty paranoia thriller owes as much if not more to Hitchcock's Lifeboat as it does to modern "torture porn", such as the Saw sequels. But at the end of the day, it is a suspense full thriller with some pieces of torture, I would say without offending somebody, if you can't stand the gore in Saw than watch this one. The story itself did have some twists but the end I personally didn't like. It made me even think about the internet, it's a fact everything you do is being watched or registered on some server. Everybody has his dark secrets and this is in fact were it's all about. The acting was really good and you start to know the 4 players in the beginning and you must admit that if you were in the same game you wouldn't like to reveal yourself. Due being less on horror I still kept watching what was really going on and I even laughed a bit with the inside joke about Big Brother. It is Chris Crow his second attempt to make a full feature and for being filmed just on a plane he did a fine job. And it's easy to say that it is in the line of Saw, watch it, somebody giving orders to 4 players on a plane. This is a weird one to review, I mean, there's almost no blood in it and still I wouldn't advice it to kids to watch this flick.
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