Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

a_chinn Flawed but interesting black comedy about cults and deprogramming. The film starts out overtly comedic about a down on his luck author and cult expert on a very low rent book tour. On this darkly funny and depressing book tour he's approached by a couple who want his help rescuing their daughter form a cult. Their daughter, an excellent Mary Elizabeth Winstead, is then held captive in a a hotel room with the cult expert for a character duel along the lines of "Death and the Maiden" or "Oleanna," where interesting power dynamics emerge between the two. Leland Orser, who's on my list of great one-scene-performances for his one scene in "Seven" as the lust victim in the massage parlor, gives a great performance here as the troubled cult expert, though it's really Winstead who steals the film. While the script doesn't seem to gel as a whole and the end in particular seemed a bit contrived, the performances make this one worth watching.

MartinHafer So far, "Fault" has all positive reviews on IMDb. I cannot imagine this will continue now that it's just debuted on Netflix's streaming service here in the States. I found the film disturbing and unpleasant.When the movie starts, it's a comedy. A complete loser named Ansel (Leland Orser) is doing crappy workshops where he talks about cults and cult deprogramming. He's darkly funny to watch and I enjoyed the film...so far.The plot then thickens. A set of parents inexplicably recruit this idiot to deprogram their daughter who's been caught up in a cult called "Fault". He and some recruits kidnap her and take her to a motel room....and the comedy completely vanishes. The film becomes confusing here, as you really have no idea where it's going. Ultimately, the film becomes VERY dark and nasty...and I was left feeling like two separate films had been spliced together. And, as a result I also felt cheated. A funny dark comedy just became dark and nasty...and unfun to say the least.

parsonm2 I was very impressed with this film. We follow a down and out Cult novelist who specializes in understanding the methodology of how cults control individuals. The novelist is divorced, homeless, broke, suicidal and in debt with some very nasty former business partner when we meet him. When two parents approach him desperate for help, he agrees to help them with an extreme intervention with their cult involved daughter. The goal is to deprogram her. Arranging a kidnapping, he abducts the girl and isolates her in a motel room for days attempting to mentally break her down and understand her cult programing. It was engaging and completely unpredictable. I'm not totally satisfied how the story concluded but found the entire ride fun and intriguing.

Lee Webb I started off really loving this movie and was really hooked by the opening scenes setting up the main character, who is played to perfection by Leland Orser. A washed-up "expert" on cults and brainwashing, his character is sad, funny, and interesting all at the same time. You also really empathize with him and feel his sense of desperation and frustration at the start of the movie.As the story unfolds, a mother and father approach him offering desperately needed money if he would be willing to kidnap their daughter from a cult and reprogram her back to "normal." So far so good and everything leading up to his character retrieving the girl and beginning his treatment seems promising. Unfortunately, the movie slid downhill from there (at least for me). I was expecting a more interesting series of twists and turns and looked forward to seeing the enticing cat and mouse mind game that the movie seemed to be setting up. Instead, the movie just kind of got inexplicably stranger and ended up taking a path that I felt was a bit too predictable and unsatisfying.It's worth checking out for Orser's performance and character alone. I just wish they had done a bit more with it and carried the quirky and unique tone that was established early through the entire film.