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Naomi Watts
Tim Roth
Michael Pitt
Brady Corbet
Devon Gearhart
Boyd Gaines

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A family vacation is interrupted by two educated, articulate and sadistic young men who come up with some interesting games for the family to play. -- Chris aka Tarkin

10/20/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Not very funny; not very... anything

I did not understand this one.

Normally, I watch the original, then the remake: I love comparing the two. In this case, I did not. But I can only hope the normal rule applies and that the original was much better.

I'm not stupid. I can usually make sense of a movie. Or at least invent a theory about what it means. So here, I think I know what happenened plot-wise. But if I'm right, I just don't see the point of the rest of the movie.

There is no consistent style or point of view to make the duration the least bit entertaining. Rarely do I feel a movie has been such a waste of time. And I'm wasting time now trying to express how I felt about it.

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1.5/4 

09/05/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

I would prefer not to play this game

A disturbing, vivid but wildly uneven thriller that attempts to make valid points about violence (that it should be feared and not applauded as in most Hollywood conventional thrillers); it's difficult to believe how little the family fights back, and the director deliberately teases his audience one too many times. But it does succeed when it doesn't give the audience what it wants or expects. Final Grade: C+

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2.5/4 

08/12/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Not For Anyone

Ok, first off I haven't seen the original. With that being said, THIS MOVIE BLOWS! I am somewhat a fan of these types of movies and I can safely say that this one is in the bottom 10 (in that genre) for me. I felt like this movie had no substance or style. It is definately not a "scary, intense, nail biter", if that's what some of the critics are calling it. No, this movie is anything but those things. There were times when I thought it was going to get better, but then it would stoop back down to a lower level. There were even scenes that seemed very remenicent of scenes in other films. For instance: the "take off your clothes or else" scene has already been done way better (and scarier) in The Devils Rejects. I don't want to go down the whole list, but you get the idea. Funny ...

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0.5/4 

06/05/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

I Love Twisted Films But This Isn't One of Them

Going into the cinema, I thought I was in for a typical psychological thriller. But about an hour into the film, I felt kind of bad watching the story unfold as the family is terrorized and tortured in ways that are twisted and gratuitous. I wanted to like the film because it was daring and different (acknowledging that it is also a decent remake regardless of it being done shot by shot as the original), but there's something about the picture that is rotten and not meant to be taken in easily. If the point of the film is to make its audiences extremely uncomfortable, I give kudos to the director. I must say the acting here is on a higher level compared to other psychological thrillers. Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet give convincing performances as two preppy psychotic teenagers with a mor...

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2/4