Tetrady not as good as all the hype

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

bkearns01 OK So I watched this on NETFLIX and didn't expect to get more than 10 minutes into it before shutting it down, but I immediately related to the lead character. This film obviously had no budget but still it grabbed me and I couldn't turn away from it. The storyline was really quite good and kept moving. I would LOVE to see GAMEBOX 2.0 with something like a $30,000,000.00 budget. Some great CGI ala Avatar. Some of todays video game effects and of course some SEX and EXPLOSIONS! Wow, this could easily become the new franchise line of films done correctly, right up to GAMEBOX 13.0. Seriously, SAW has grown old, Friday the 13th, Halloween and Freddy are done and in remakes. I really wish some exec with a ton of cash sees the promise of this film.

invisiblekaz People come into movies with expectations. If you're expecting a thought-provoking drama, you won't be happy if the movie's a hokey musical. My advice? Don't go into a movie expecting the exact same thing you've always seen. I don't know what the budget was for Gamebox 1.0, but from what I can tell it certainly wasn't a "major motion picture." That being said, I think this was a lot more entertaining than people are giving it credit for. Starting off it was a little rickety. I didn't know what to make of the protagonist, but as the story went on and they developed his character it was a fun story to follow. I think the reason this movie won't appeal to everyone is the fact that it is what it promises. If you've ever played a relatively recent RPG or shooter, the game-scenes in the movie are like actual video game cut-scenes. It's an interesting idea -- not necessarily completely original, but certainly well executed. It was a journey for the main character and a way for him to grow, and the story only got more entertaining as it went along. I thought the ending was good. Each aspect of the film fit in neatly to make it so. People were probably put off by the simplicity or the unrealistic nature, but it comes back to going in with the right expectations. You don't play a video game to explore moral ambiguity or some deep, profound ideal. Don't go into a film that's supposed to be modeled after a video game expecting something like that.

Keith5252 OK, this movie wasn't good at all. Video games aren't what I would brag on if I was over the age of 15. Cool to play games, but writing a comment about video game players may like this movie for that it is, that is strange. Just play a video game, don't make up a sorry story about getting trapped in one. I use my cell phone, I hope I don't loose my girlfriend in that. Grease being the worst ever? OK, Grease has a very well thought out story along with being a musical. Even if you don't like musicals, anyone would say Grease is good. My brother plays video games all the time and he watched 30 minutes and left because it was so awful. I feel asleep.

jstarone67 Gamebox has a lot of things in common with Brainscan and Stay Alive, both of which came before it and were probably in the same budget arena. I don't know what Ed Furlong made back then but it couldn't have been much and Frankie Muniz is the only guy in Stay Alive who made any money. I think Brainscan is one of the best of its kind and I'd add Gamebox to the Brainscan end of the spectrum. Charlie's such a mess in the beginning you can't help rooting for him to at least start interacting with humans again. When he gets sucked into the game you figure he's gonna crawl into a hole and die but he turns out to be the perfect guy for the job. Once he's in the game world full time the movie really starts to move. My only problem with it is it could have made more of his relationship with his girlfriend in the beginning. Maybe more flashbacks or something so we see what she's like compared to PRincess. They show her in an old video but she doesn't say anything.