At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Yesterday i watched the original Movie Das Experiment and i was really looking forward to see what Hollywood made out of it. My expectations were that Hollywood would surpass the German Version.Boy was i wrong! I watch movies to see a at least somewhat believable which is thrilling. The original version is really tight, full of tense and is still very believable and therefore really fascinating.In the Experiment the took out the whole dimension of the researcher, their discussions in the group. Because of this after watching 1h of the experiment i felt like "what?? it is totally ridiculous that the Stanford psychologist would tolerate that, since the rules of the experiment were pretty precisely laid out in the movie".In the original movie, there are given good explanations that are believable but still put constraints on the story and this makes it a masterpiece to watch.In this movie instead there are just shown the cameras not a word of explanation why no one interferes and the movie just abandons it own rules. Once this happens it is totally boring to watch. In the moment a movie breaks its own rules anything can happen and you just sit there and say well i don't care anymore.So i have to say this Germany just makes better Nazi-movies ;) Watch the original movie it is so much more intense, thrilling and believable at the same time.

I am a huge fan of Forest Whitaker and given the right script he excels at playing the villain, however I do not believe that this script was right for him. The movie for me, was extremely slow moving right up until the last 15 minutes. I also felt the ending was rushed and left no explanation of why exactly this particular experiment had taken place or why it was allowed to continue so long after breaking the rules given by the scientists. This being said if you enjoy films that aren't overly thought provoking with over the top violence, you won't lose anything by watching this. For this film to rate higher for me I would have enjoyed a little more depth into the psychological meaning and exactly why certain characters personalities changed almost immediately within a prison environment. Also to have the characters backgrounds explored a little more as the only actor I really felt for was the comic geek.

I thought this was a alright movie actually. I have just watched it again in fact. you have 2 main actors Adrian which is a prisoner and Forest which is a guard. they started out as friends in the beginning but turned enemies cause one got put on the guard side and the other a prisoner. Forest turned into the leader of the guards and Adrian the leader of the prisoners. I would have to say there was a couple weird spots where Forest pee's on Adrian and stuffs his head in the toilet but other then that the acting was great and I would have to say it was way better then the original. Thanks

This movie is no where near as good as the original German film . So to all those who say that this movies deserves anything more than a one your out of your minds . Go watch the German movies it has the same tittle it from 2001 . Then watch this crap & tell me this is good . Avoid this film . I think that Hollywood needs to think about hitting great actors not just good looking ones like cam . I mean he's very handsome but he's not winning an Oscar anytime soon . The main problem with this film is that they did not focus on making the film better than the original & they just focus on making it different but it does not work in their favor . Maybe if they would have hired the same director maybe that could have helped the film . I mean their is a reason why it went straight to DVD hello that's a warning sign .