BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

pesic-1 The characters in this film are so annoying that you want them to die. However, when they do die, these deaths are usually quite silly. This film has no clue about style. It doesn't know what it is. At times it looks like a friendly family film reminiscent of Indiana Jones; but then it switches into really nasty gore; and so it switches back and forth. The film is quite silly throughout, though the silliness increases as we approach the climax - if you can call it that.So how do you describe this mess? Think a cheap Indiana Jones clone combined with Alien vs. Predator, only with a tiny budget, crappy actors, and an incompetent writer. In this film, a pyramid is always filled with light whose source is impossible to discern, people reach the bottom of the giant pyramid in about a minute, and archaeologists can read long texts in hieroglyphs on the walls in seconds, by just casually glancing at them. I know they are experts, but this is ridiculous. AVP flashbacks, anyone? Oh, and these 'experts' manage to get lost in the pyramid literally a few minutes from entering the building. Fantastic.Another example of bad writing: the characters find out they are all infected with some disease that is making parts of their body fall off. Kind of makes it pointless to even hope they survive the monsters in the pyramid, since they are all dead already.And the monster is silly.I didn't enjoy this ride at all. I was baffled most of the time, I was never really scared, and I couldn't bring myself to care about the events on screen.

BA_Harrison A team of intrepid archaeologists and documentary film makers become lost in the bowels of a mysterious 3-sided pyramid, where they find themselves faced with deadly pitfalls, menaced by flesh-eating sphinx cats and hunted by the jackal-headed Egyptian god Anubis, who tears out his victims' hearts.Many a found-footage horror film should carry a warning: Caution! May cause nausea and drowsiness. The Pyramid, however, is one of those rare instances where the hand-held camera style is not too intrusive and the horror aspect is gripping enough to prevent the viewer from nodding off.Admittedly, the script isn't all that original, borrowing heavily from hits such as The Descent (a claustrophobic subterranean location is home to deadly creatures), The Blair Witch Project (characters become lost and are attacked by a legendary being) and even Raiders of the Lost Ark (an Egyptian temple is laden with labyrinthine passageways and booby traps), but first-time director Grégory Levasseur injects enough suspense, effective scares, intriguing mythology and gory thrills into proceedings to make this a fun ride despite the over familiarity of the material and the rather ropey looking CGI Anubis.6/10. Many IMDb reviewers have been rather harsh about this film. I, on the other hand, may have been a touch too generous with my appraisal (I'm a sucker for 'lost temple' adventures). The truth is there are a lot worse films you could be wasting your time with.

Pumpkin_Man I've been wanting to see this for a long time and finally got around to it. It's about what I expected, and that's good. The 'creatures' were a little disappointing at first, but I like how they handled the main monster by adding in Egyptian history and culture. The film is mostly 'found footage' style. A group of archaeologists discovers a vast pyramid buried deep under the desert. They want to go in and explore, but given strict instructions not to. Ignoring this, they go inside and can't find their way out. It's full of dead ends, labyrinths and creatures. If you want a fun cheesy B horror movie with Egyptian culture, you'll love THE PYRAMID!!!

Deimos-remus I decided to seek out this movie after seeing "As Above so Below" (a film that admittedly isn't that great, but manages to pull of a good sense of atmosphere, despite its many shortcomings), hoping that I'd be at least treated to some interesting or surprisingly good visuals. I've known that I've exhausted my supply of what I constitute as successful films in the horror genre, so if there are any that even slightly peek my interest, I'll give them a shot. This movie is just an absolute disaster. Not only as a horror film completely filled to the brim with the same trite clichés that have taken over the genre in recent years, but as a found- footage film as well. I'm not a fan of the sub-genre, as I feel it promotes laziness, bad cinematography and stories completely riddled with holes. That being said, the found- footage element of this movie is done so badly, that I have to take note of it. Found-footage dictates that a sequence of events presented in the film's narrative are to be 'unedited' or 'raw' but there are so many characters with access to cameras that it presents a large set of problems. There are so many moments where, as a viewer, you cannot tell who the hell is filming the action taking place, and there are even moments of idle cameras looking at ALL the characters, meaning no character within the story is operating said camera, taking the disbelief of the entire situation even further; an essential element that found-footage films try to preserve, the reality. At one point in the movie, perhaps a first within the found-footage sub-genre of horror, there was even the presence of a scored soundtrack, which had me in shock. Other complaints were that the acting was below sub-par, the characters were all insufferably irritating and irrational (not to mention they had no presence whatsoever), the cgi monsters looked like total garbage and most importantly the story was just plain lazy, uninteresting and sloppy as all get out. The horror genre is a very fluid and dynamic one, and as a genre, it has so much potential, but it's a shame that year after year, the film-makers within it always resort to putting out the same incredibly predictable, unoriginal and poorly-made trash. At least there are a few gems within the genre in recent years that give me some hope, showing that horror isn't now completely without merit, but they are far and few between.