People are voting emotionally.

Good concept, poorly executed.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Blistering performances.

The biggest plot twist at the end of the movie was unapologetically anti-climatic with no support from music or sound. Character development was left to mere singular scenes without progress or consideration for the lack of plot.Honestly had good expectations for this movie considering the story concept, but as first-feature for the director I must say that the disappointment in this film lays in the hands of the screenwriter. Best of luck on your next one, Charles.

What ever the idea behind this awful plot was in-universe, it has all the settings of being needlessly cruel and brutal and it just makes me angry. some random company lures a bunch of video gamers with the promise of $100,000 to the winner to a modern warfare VR game, but the catch is, if you die in the game, you die for real! it's so hackneyed and overused it's painful, and it never ceases to make me genuinely angry. the kids are basically lied to, told to put on the gaming suits and compete, not told about any of the dangers at all. A VR drill sergeant basically tortures them as much as the virtual enemy does, at one point actively interfering with the game and breaking one of the player's legs, effectively killing him as the others have to leave him behind for his brutal leg wound to get infected and have him die. maybe it's just me, but this is the kind of setup that would make me so incredibly angry that I would refuse to comply with orders, shoot and kill the VR sergeant when he comes threatening me, and if that doesn't work, shoot and kill everyone then kill myself, out of pure, white-hot raging spite. nothing else in this bland movie interests me beyond that. That's all I can fixate on. The whole thing is a total fraudulent setup. it's not clear if all of them are expert FPS video gamers or if maybe one or two of them is an expert at friggin World of Warcraft. Even if they were experts, they have no trainings and no experience with actual weaponry or modern warfare tactics. They all get one "medipack" that instantly heals them if shot, and that's it. After that they basically die for real. it's a pointless exercise just to murder a bunch of teenagers and young adults, and it's infuriating that they go along instead of refuse and defy these scumbags the whole way down.

Don't listen to the it-wasn't-that-bad reviews. It was. Acting-poor...expected. Storyline-overmined...expected. CGI-decent- expected. But even though it meets expectations, that's not saying much when expectations are low. There's just no reason to waste 90 mins of your life watching this...in a week, you'll have forgotten everything except, maybe, the fact that you watched it. It's racing out of my short term into oblivion as I type. Hard pass.

I saw the film at a sci-fi festival and found the premise absolutely engaging. Without giving away too much of the story, this is one of those movies that grabs something familiar from the contemporary world and takes it to the extreme, with fascinating consequences. Mixing VR and reality is the holy grail of gamers, but the sort of scenario described here is chilling, to say the least. Funnily, the writer-director takes every trope of the first-person shooter and turns it into a clever detail. And that's where most of the fun comes from. The characters conveniently follow the group casting of any slasher, with all the classic types and a couple of surprises. Maybe I would have wished these characters to be a bit more explored and a little less action scenes, but you can't fault this film for doing what most FPS do! Good fun