Boobirt
Stylish but barely mediocre overall
WasAnnon
Slow pace in the most part of the movie.
Scotty Burke
It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
alinstroming
The title of the movie already says it: No one lives. So already you can spoil your movie experience by not even looking at the trailer.No one lives is an average gory thriller flick, with Luke Evans. He's probably the only reason you're watching this movie, but boy oh boy how it fails.First off, the dialogue. Every second word is a f-word and some things the characters say sounds so dumb, I couldn't help myself but to just grin. Unnecessary things were said a couple of times and didn't make any sense.The second is acting. Jesus Christ its bad. Okay, not that bad, but would've been better if the characters were introduced and not just killed off by the welsh pretty boy. And since no one cares what happens to them, you just wanna see how the Driver is gonna kill them.Last thing is horror. There is none. Oh if you count a few small jump scares that barely even make you flinch. I do not know what Ryūhei Kitamura classifies as horror, but this is not. It doesn't have any creepy atmosphere or subtlety. Its just random people getting picked off.The only thing the movie does right, is its soundtrack and the concept. The soundtrack is fresh and gives the movie a sense of tension. Especially the main theme (or the one that plays at the end) tells, that this movie is a thriller.The concept of a madman, who goes on to kill people in a violent manner sounds great. And this movie could've proved to be deadly game of hide and seek. But nope. It has to be a boring mess of f-bombs, guns and executions. Did I mention this movie has firearms? They play a too big role and made my experience dull. And the bad-ass crossbow you see in the poster is nowhere to be found. Its used only once and off-screen. If the Driver would sneak around, pick off people with it for at least ten minutes of the movies runtime, it would've made the movie intense. Definitely.Overall No one lives is a combination of gore, bad acting and weird ideology of the Driver. It shines with its unique idea for a thriller style and soundtrack, but nevertheless its an average movie. If you just wanna kill time or you just love Luke Evans and his always perfect hair, go ahead. Watch it.And remember, no one lives.
Seth_Rogue_One
I will give it a couple of compliments, visually it's good looking and it has some clever kills and the gore is on point and gruesome, the soundtrack is also not too bad.But that's how far I can go with the compliments, cause frankly it's really hard to care what happens to anyone in this movie because they are all bad people to various degrees.The acting isn't terrible, it's above average for a WWE production that's for sure but it doesn't matter because in the end a movie where you don't care about what happened to the characters is pretty pointless.Knowing that it's a WWE production the characters does have a bit of the same macho testerone that the characters usually have in those movies which makes the characters a bit flat although I believe they hired only real actors this time, no wrestlers from what I know at least.I was pondering whether to give it a 4 or a 3, decided with the latter because I think it's highly over-rated as it is now with a strong 6/10 in average which is pretty good for a horror here.
Ben Parker
A group of small-time bad guys accidentally kidnap the biggest bad guy... Whoops.A decent concept, but some of the worst acting and writing I've ever seen. Sure, if you're here for some thrills, there's a few to be had, but you really seriously have to switch your brain off. This one may fit into the so bad its good category, depending on your attitude, which is probably why it has so many positive reviews. Objectively though, its so bad its bad.I should highlight one particularly ridiculous scene: the image of one character unzipping themself out of another character who they had been hiding inside... Absolutely ridiculous, unnecessary, considering the character could have hid literally anywhere else. So yes, if that sounds good, then that's the sort of movie you're in for.
David Arnold
Driver and his partner, Betty, are seemingly an innocent couple who become the victims of a group of vicious & violent killers. However, there is more than meets the eye when the killers find a kidnap victim by the name of Emma locked up in the back of Driver and Betty's car. Realising who Emma is, the gang all plan to hand her in to claim the reward for her safe return, but things don't go so well and they start getting picked off one by one.The trailers for No One Lives makes it look like a really good, suspenseful movie, but in actual fact it's really a very run-of-the-mill slasher flick. The acting is pretty wooden - as well as slightly over-the-top on occasion - to be honest, which is quite strange for supposedly decent actors. None of the characters are that interesting either and you don't really develop any kind of affinity towards any of them. Even Emma, the kidnap victim, gets pretty annoying at times. In fact, it actually gets to certain points where you actually WANT something bad to happen to them, and when something does you cheer a little inside.The killings in the movie are very gory too, and while I don't mind gore being used to add to the feel of the movie, I just think that the gore used was way over-the-top. For me it just seemed that the movie makers couldn't think of any way to shock the audience other than using plenty of gore. Gore can add to a film's feel like I say, but in this film's case I feel that it was used just for the sake of it.Another aspect of the film that was over-the-top as well was the language. I can swear like a trooper myself and don't mind swearing in movies, however it gets a wee bit much when every second word the actors utter is f**k.Overall, No One Lives is an OK movie to watch, but just don't expect anything original or that fantastic.