Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

jereco The concept of the film seems tailor-made for drama: a number of men are placed in a prison-type situation as a psychology experiment. What great fodder for dramatic interaction! But then... Oy. Do they ever screw it up. The action (such as it is - and it ain't much) is predictable, the motivations for all are ridiculous and unbelievable, and the entire experiment happens far too quickly (yet the film drags so much) that it's impossible to buy into how the plot could have gone from Point A to Point Z without any points in between. If you watch it drunk or high maybe it would be funny, at least (or even just watchable) but viewed sober...it's just torture. Which may have been the intention of this experiment all along.

freezesmyblood Literally every single review up here mentions the original, and that irritates me to no end. The whole point of remaking a movie is to allow the director or writer to bend the story to fit their idea of what it could've been. So sure, this may be worse than the original, but that shouldn't take anything away from the overall enjoyment of the film. Pretty much, a bunch of volunteers are placed in a fake prison as either a guard or an inmate so some scientists can study (I assume) the effects of a prison situation on the mind. Personally, and you could say that I'm overexamining the movie, I believe that it's a commentary on the corruption and cruelty of organized religion. To me, the prisoners are the believers, imprisoned and ruled over by the red light (god), which is the deciding factor to the guards, who are the religious officials. This might just be my biased opinion, but to me it all adds up. The thing that really lead me to believe this was the $14,000 hanging in the balance. It represents heaven, and if you break any of the five rules (or ten commandments) you lose it. After coming to this conclusion, I watched the movie again and found examples backing my idea all over. I have a fairly biased viewpoint, though, so I might just be finding these things because I'm looking for them, but I'm not sure. All around, though, I think this is a pretty good movie. It certainly does not deserve the lashing reviews it has gotten, but then again, I think that about pretty much every movie. It may have some slightly unbelievable events, but I think the acting is solid enough to redeem it and make it a solid 8 out of 10

qwert36985 Look, I'm a type of guy who doesn't like to get pretentious. Give me a black-and-white Dawn of the Dead and a color version of Dawn of the Dead, and I'll definitely pick the latter.The people complaining about the Hollywood remake in THIS movie, though, going on and on about the movie **dare I say it?** Das Experiment, are kinda like those guys who'd go for the black and white version of Dawn of the Dead.Don't get me wrong-- that's understandable. Some people like the plots and scripts in old versions. I can buy that.What I CAN'T buy, though, is giving this movie a 1 out of 10 because Das Experiment was better. I mean, dude, the acting was God-driven, and I have never been so angry at a character in my life. When I saw that crazy Whitaker get that hell-pounding from Adrien Brody at the end, I felt a burst of adrenaline pulsing straight through my brain and just jumping up and down. I have not experienced that kind of satisfaction in a long time.Look, the movie's great. Tension, check. Atmosphere, check. Acting, double check. The only things that bothered me were a couple of plot holes and the abrupt ending. I was kinda hoping they'd show more of what happened after. I get that the movie was based on the Stanford Experiment, but plenty of fact driven movies have blended creative elements in for entertainment.But dammit, the movie was great. You're missing out big time if you don't watch it. Yeah, I get it, you guys think the German Das Experiment film was the real thing. But remakes don't always have to be crap, and The Experiment was amazing on its own.Conclusion: think of all those 1 out of 10 rate reviews that mention Das Experiment as people who like the black and white version of Dawn of the Dead. They're just trying to sound smart.

chaos-rampant This flubs in a big way the point of the original 1960's Stanford experiment of observed situational identity. So what, you will say. This is the American remake of the German film adapted from a book. It makes for an awful movie is what. The point Zimbardo was trying to illustrate, was that if the images and experience you surround people with have some persuasive force, they will readily adapt to their part in the narrative. It is an exercise of deeply cinematic interest, next to other things. Kuleshov's Effect.To make his case, Zimbardo selected only the most psychologically sound candidates. The point was that self is fluid and anyone can change. In the American remake, you have a religious 43year-old man who lives with his mother, a binge-drinking womanizer, a homosexual, a neo-nazi ex-con.Of course there is nothing inherently wrong with being overly religious or a homosexual, yet the film subtly insinuates, by selectively focusing attention on the fact, that there might be, and that it can be cause for friction and violence.The religious guy turns out to be the most abusive, hoping to please an unseen 'omniscient' father behind the camera. The pacifist leads the resistance and is revealed to be an animal no less violent than anyone else. It's lame and predictable, the whole thing a cheap and tawdry excuse for psychological abuse.You get stock reversals and conflict instead of really fluid self. And you will know this is entirely made from cliché, by noting the pacifist's girlfriend awaits him somewhere in India to pursue together spiritual peace and enlightenment in some ashram.Read up on guys like Satchidananda whose Yogaville involved a lot of similar psychologically abusive moulding of character, because someone here sure as hell didn't. Forest Whitaker is particularly bad as the unhinged warden of this straight-to-video schlock.