@ThrillKillz said:

Initially it was interesting, the whole lockdown of the building was great, BUT then the film happened and the premise declined quickly from the start, chaos, nothing at all was gained whatsoever about social conduct and behavior in particular scenarios. It was really pointless, awe but the ending, surprise @ssholes, even that was anticlimactic. I have to wonder why this film was even made. Considering that other film that had everyone standing on circles(dammit I can't recall the name) and they all decided on who died on much better social scales and reasoning than in this killathon(neither a fun nor a gory one). A 5/10 and I'm being very generous as this was very poorly executed and had no message whatsoever. I feel it was all just a giant waste of time on everyone's part, even the craft services depo.

I liked it. I guess you don't remember the 80s. Movies were pointless and full of gore, and awesome

I think you liked it for what it was and not so much a time period relation, I didn't pick up any sort of 80's vibe whatsoever(and I was alive then ftr). This was kinda like an action film to me instead of a horror flick and that was part of the reason I didn't particularly love it. I think it easily could've been better with some changes and that's always a pet peeve of mine. Anyway it's absolutely fine for a medium to late night watch, it was entertaining.

@ThrillKillz said:

I think you liked it for what it was and not so much a time period relation, I didn't pick up any sort of 80's vibe whatsoever(and I was alive then ftr). This was kinda like an action film to me instead of a horror flick and that was part of the reason I didn't particularly love it. I think it easily could've been better with some changes and that's always a pet peeve of mine. Anyway it's absolutely fine for a medium to late night watch, it was entertaining.

Oh yeah i took it as more of an action movie kind of like Uwe Boll type movies

@ThrillKillz said:

Considering that other film that had everyone standing on circles(dammit I can't recall the name) and they all decided on who died on much better social scales and reasoning than in this killathon(neither a fun nor a gory one).

Lol, it's called Circle. Go figure, huh?

@AmBeck22 said:

@ThrillKillz said:

Considering that other film that had everyone standing on circles(dammit I can't recall the name) and they all decided on who died on much better social scales and reasoning than in this killathon(neither a fun nor a gory one).

Lol, it's called Circle. Go figure, huh?

Yea, it popped up yesterday on one of my IMDb's pages"others also liked" section and I was like duh! Circle!,lol, probably why I couldn't remember it, wonder who came up with such an original name.

@ThrillKillz said:

Initially it was interesting, the whole lockdown of the building was great, BUT then the film happened and the premise declined quickly from the start, chaos, nothing at all was gained whatsoever about social conduct and behavior in particular scenarios. It was really pointless, awe but the ending, surprise @ssholes, even that was anticlimactic. I have to wonder why this film was even made. Considering that other film that had everyone standing on circles(dammit I can't recall the name) and they all decided on who died on much better social scales and reasoning than in this killathon(neither a fun nor a gory one). A 5/10 and I'm being very generous as this was very poorly executed and had no message whatsoever. I feel it was all just a giant waste of time on everyone's part, even the craft services depo.

Dann! This was the next movie that I was going to watch. Too bad that it's has a lot of bad reviews. Luckily for the production company, I'm going to watch this movie regardless of a few bad reviews because I'm a huge fan of Michael Rooker.

i'd have skipped this one but for James Gunn having written the script.

it's not poorly written but he really didn't do anything creative with the tired concept.

@BarkingBaphomet said:

i'd have skipped this one but for James Gunn having written the script.

it's not poorly written but he really didn't do anything creative with the tired concept.

I agree that James Gunn is an excellent writer and I'm also surprised he didn't go for something a little more neatly framed and creative. The director failed to execute some scenes properly and christ knows what happened in the editing room, chopping it to hell.

The movie was mediocre at best, I hated the pacing of the deaths and events. It was really poorly done, and didn't have any impact. The ending was completely idiotic. The potheads dig the already detonated bombs out of the dead peoples' heads (and somehow they're now not detonated!?!?!?) and then the main character, who is a total bleeding heart pansy type, manages to be the last person alive and then stealthily plants the exploded/unexploded bombs on all the bad guys, and then re-detonates the already detonated bombs to blow them up. Then he picks up an assault rifle and and finishes them off. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Who writes this crap?

@ThrillKillz said:

Initially it was interesting, the whole lockdown of the building was great, BUT then the film happened and the premise declined quickly from the start, chaos, nothing at all was gained whatsoever about social conduct and behavior in particular scenarios. It was really pointless, awe but the ending, surprise @ssholes, even that was anticlimactic. I have to wonder why this film was even made. Considering that other film that had everyone standing on circles(dammit I can't recall the name) and they all decided on who died on much better social scales and reasoning than in this killathon(neither a fun nor a gory one). A 5/10 and I'm being very generous as this was very poorly executed and had no message whatsoever. I feel it was all just a giant waste of time on everyone's part, even the craft services depo.

Sometimes you gotta just take it for what it is and enjoy the moment. I hated the "found footage" trend and I hate maybe even more this new "ambiguous/figure it out for yourself/leave you hanging/ we're so cool we don't even have to properly end a movie" trend. Call it what you want, I call it laziness. Sadly, because of that I've stopped giving a crap about a lot of movies. It was a cool hack and slash movie but I'm not wasting my time anymore confused and curious, scouring the interwebz for the deeper meaning.

I think if you do that, movies will actually be a lot better cause hey, ignorance is bliss right?! 😉

Oh, and the couple in the movie...no frickin way! That dude couldn't score that kind of girl in his wildest dreams, haha. That's what really killed the movie for me. Not for a second could I buy into that one.

@mitsuko_soma said:

"stealthily plants the exploded/unexploded bombs on all the bad guys, and then re-detonates the already detonated bombs to blow them up."

Shhh, you weren't supposed to notice that part! Haha.

Those bombs hadn't been detonated. He was digging bombs out of the shooting victims.

This movie is WAY WAY WAY better than Circle lets get that straight. I enjoyed Circle don't get me wrong but I would without a doubt recommend this movie over that. I wouldn't dare recommend Circle over Belko without a serious look at myself and my choices in life. Granted I still need to do that for myself anyways, but this movie was on a totally different level. This movie nailed exactly what it was about and did it well. Circle had a similar concept but it was still a much more different type of scenario and it did it very mediocre at best. One might prefer one scenario style movie over the next and that is a legitimate reason to like that movie more. Arguing the quality of Circle over Belko is absolutely absurd.

I hated this also. I was with it for about 45 minutes then once all of this ultra violence started I kept looking at my cell phone to see how my longer of this torture I had to endure. I didn't think any of the actors did a particularly good job either. When a movie is poorly cast it's hard to care about any of the characters.