Paintball
Eight strangers engaged in an intense game of experts-only paintball find their friendly game taking a terrifying turn when one member of the team begins playing by a different set of rules. It started as a remote raw battle of wits and wiles set against the backdrop of majestic wilderness. With each shot fired, the stakes grew higher. But something horrible has happened, and what was once a team sport has become a relentless struggle for individual survival. The danger growing by the minute, the combatants gradually come to realize that their greatest adversary may be the very game they set out to play.
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- Cast:
- Brendan Mackey , Jennifer Matter , Patrick Regis , Neil Maskell , Anna Casas , Peter Vives , Claudia Bassols
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Best movie ever!
If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
Director Daniel Benmayor's film Paintball is an exceptional motion picture experience of infinite power. The environment he creates is dark, forbidding, and utterly terrifying. The sense of helplessness the characters feel as they fight for their lives with worthless weapons from a game becomes our own in a very personal way as the tension builds. The impersonal, merciless threats that stalk these innocent players is overwhelming and the desperation we feel with them is nearly unendurable. The pace never slackens as they are pursued relentlessly in a nightmare scenario of complete surrealism. It is nothing less than brilliant film making and unlike anything else you are like to encounter on the screen. The shattering climax is heart rendering in its explosiveness and will leave you absolutely stunned and breathless.
This film was a lot like a game of paintball in the sense that I gained nothing from it.Was 90 minutes of torture porn loosely based around a fatal game of paintball. Unless my friends and I were being incredibly thick, (unlikely) the ending made little, if not any, sense. This film was so poor I felt compelled to make an IMDb account to slate it. If you have 90 minutes you wish to fill with poor acting, thermal cameras and general shouting from annoying characters I would highly recommend this film, if not I highly advise you stay away from this film. ****SPOILER ALERT***** The black guy doesn't die first.
While undertaking a paint-ball game, a team of players finds itself under attack by a maniacal killer intent on turning the game into a bloodbath and must try to survive against the madman in order to leave the game alive.What initially could've been a real drag-out effort instead turns into a really disappointing and barely worthwhile effort that contains only a few scant positives. One of the main problems here is the fact that the kills are some of the lamest ever devised for a horror film, which really hurts the killer here tremendously. Those kills either tend to be straight gunshots from extreme range or more traditional kills done through the killer's electronic visor, reducing them to a CG-style image that appears to be a mix between night-vision and infrared style with the tones and appearance used. This is an utterly irritating tactic that comes on during what should be the film's key moments when you want to be able to get the full effect, resulting in bloodless kills that are also impossible to make out. The twist with the killer is fairly novel but lacks a lot of class and doesn't really go anywhere with it, keeping a lot hidden and not exploring a potentially good idea to its fullest. The idea of a killer in a paintball tournament should've been a lot of fun without knowing who to trust or if the game should be called off which is where this one should've worked, but instead the concept of the organization being behind it all given to us here is just quite lame as for what they're after or the purpose of this one to set off the problems in here. There's some really enjoyable parts to this one which makes for an occasionally entertaining time, starting with the stalking at the end guided along by the helpful attendant which comes off a lot more tense and chilling here than expected during the forest segment with the preceding events fueling the paranoia, engaging in plenty of rather fun escape sequences and getting into the compound to add in the heat-vision tactics to great effect for once as the brawling is quite more active than expected and really putting out the creepiness of the corporation is fantastic as it brings about the great scene. Still, though, this really doesn't come close to matching the even-more impressive beginning as it really delivers a lot of really good paint- ball shoot-'em-up action to get things going as this gets right in the heat of the battle and their tactics come off incredibly well that showcases this all to great effect. As well, the later scenes of the group undergoing the strategies while aware of the killer after them is pretty enjoyable with some suitably realistic chaos and panic spread in. However, the flaws are just too present and overbearing for this one to really overcome.Rated R: Graphic Language and Graphic Violence.
So, I read the reviews on this title because it seemed like a decent movie. I mean the idea of a paintball game where real death is involved seemed like a good idea. After reading the reviews, however, I had an all new view of this movie as one of those B-horror movies, which I always find hilarious. And lo and behold, it was correct. I came into the movie expecting a few laughs from stupid "horror" scenes. i got way more than a few. The ways that all of the characters die are so hidden that they do not seem gory at all and the overused effects make the "horror" a laughable montage of cliché deaths. Though as a B-horror movie this was not even good. It was trying too hard to be a real horror movie making it not B horror and not A horror, just A- horror.... which doesn't even exist