TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

clnap This is a movie about four Japanese twenty somethings being forced to torture themselves and one another by a mysterious captor. If the four participate they have to partake in challenges that range from disgusting acts, like eating maggots, to traumatizing mutilation, like sitting in a chair covered in nails. This movie has a slow start which reminded me of *Audition*, (sweet movie by the way, I recommend it,) so I got my hopes up; and when things started to get bloody I was on board for a gore flick. But then near the end you learn information about the protagonist that is supposed to turn the audience against him, but it seriously fell flat on me. Had the movie not made the decision to corrupt the protagonist's character I would have easily given the movie an 8/10.If you are curious about the premise of the movie I doubt you will regret watching the movie, but if you want a violent revenge movie just watch the original *Oldboy*.*SPOILERS* PROBLEMS I HAD WITH THIS MOVIE *SPOILERS*-How the hell did they rig the television to play cartoons when they picked their games? What was the TV wired to the PAPER NOTES?!-If the Revengencers, (they don't have a real name in the movie,) had the prisoners under surveillance the whole time, how did they not notice Hideaki getting up?-Where were the other Revengencers when s*** started to go bad? If your group is built around punishing bullies wouldn't you be backing each other up in case one of your own was in danger?-Hideaki did two bad things in this movie: lie to a bullied girl, and pick a new kid to get bullied after the bullies threatened to bully Hideaki. Because of these two acts he has to be placed in the X-Games, but what the f*** was Hideaki supposed to do? The Teacher wasn't going to do anything and of all people, the two who got bullied should understand how much you wouldn't to go through with the X-Games. The kid was like 9 what the hell did you expect him to do? I highly doubt they would have just taken the games themselves if they had a choice.-Have you ever noticed that Japanese bullies have no souls? Every time they are depicted they are extorting people and putting victims through punishment that would land you in prison or an asylum for the criminally insane.-If the college professor was the Mastermind how the hell did he get bullied? Was he bullied for having a limp? Was the bullying the reason why he has a limp? Were his bullies the classroom that laughed at him when he stumbled? Good luck kidnapping 40 people who share your class and NOT becoming a suspect.-"The police were in on it," feels like such a lame twist when trying to explain why the Revengencers don't get caught. With all the resources at their members' disposal, couldn't they just cover up the murders as suicides? They do it at the beginning of the movie, and that guy died with a big f***ing "X" branded on his face."Oh yeah, he totally ran away from his newlywed wife, put a hot iron to his face, and then jumped off a building. This is a textbook suicide. What? He was missing for a few days? Well obviously he had trouble finding the iron, you can't not brand yourself before jumping off a building you know."-There were a lot more people involved with the childhood bullying aside from Hideaki and Chie, more directly as well. But we never hear about them getting any punishment. I guess the Revengencers only allow for 5 victims a member or else nobody else would get their turn.-Eating rice and maggots seems like a pretty tame punishment when you compare it to SETTING YOUR HAIR ON FIRE.-I didn't realize the milk challenge was a valid form of torture.-If any of the players died during their challenge would the rest of the group just be executed on the spot? It looks like that was the case when Hideaki got the Death Penalty. Man wouldn't that be ironic. "Yes, now I will finally get my revenge for all who wronged me! But first they must endure all the games I had to endure as a child. The irony alone makes my nipples tingle with excitement! HAHAHAHAA!... Wait he choked on the rice and maggots?! But that was only the first round, I still have like 12 more games set up! I event went through the trouble of wiring those papers to the television! Do you know how hard it is to buy like 5 crates of bottled milk on a college student's budget!? I had to take a train like four hours just to find a place where they still sold milk in glass bottles!"

suite92 'Mr Morino committed suicide' is what the opaque opening sequence is about. Hopefully this will resolve. Early on, Morino is just a sixth grade teacher. Also, part of a university lecture is shown discussing 'urban legends' about the bullied getting retribution against the former bullies. The stage is set at 10 minutes in. The question is, who is going to be thrust into the meat grinder?Hideaki is an obvious jerk, and would be my lead candidate. Why his girlfriend, Rikako, puts up with him is hard to see. One finds out toward the end of the movie.Takeshi and Tetsuya were leaders in the stylized bullying done in the sixth grade, and they get to join the festivities. Chie Koizumi was also a contributor.After a bit more stage setting to justify vigilantism, these four wake up in a locked room. They are compelled by two large hooded people with powerful electric shock weapons to play the X game, as explained on tape by the dead Mr. Morino. There are 13 levels of punishment. At each turn, a victim and a perpetrator have to be picked. If the punishment is completed in under 3 minutes, the game goes to the next turn. If not, the loser gets to be branded with a large X, about four inches in diameter; the spokes close to an inch across.This game was played in the sixth grade by the bullies; the main victim was a girl named Mariko Kaburagi. By one means or another, all the contestants are made to remember that fact. One of the final points of the film was made by the character Tadashi Ishimatu: the bullies all forgot about him, but he still has PTSD from the bullying. Not one of the four bullies even remembers him, much less what they did to him.So, this is the vigilante justice mentioned academically in the beginning of the film.How far does the vigilante justice succeed?-------Scores--------Cinematography: 9/10 Excellent in the well-lit scenes; reasonable in the dark ones.Sound: 10/10 OK; fairly good on creepiness.Acting: 7/10 Hirofumi Araki was rather good at being almost clueless to scared out of his wits. Some of the other performances were a bit wooden.Screenplay: 8/10 Had a beginning, middle, and an end. The exposition of motivations was good.------PS--------Probably the saddest thing I saw about this film was the tone of the comments made on Netflix. About half of them had the same attitudes as the bullies mentioned above: that was ages ago, have you not forgotten? We were just having fun; what's wrong with you?

JoeB131 this movie is pretty much in the same theme as the saw movies. People are put in a situation where they are screwing with their lives, and they prove to be really horrible human beings.Eight people who watched snuff films on line are put in a trap where they are stuck in a situation where they have to face a bunch of traps, and are systematically picked off. Except the more decent people are picked off first. By the end, the last three survivors double cross each other until only the movie's protagonist (who had to watch his girlfriend get raped and admit he couldn't love her the same way).You know, when you are typing in a plot synopsis and then realize you need to go back to drop your rating because your first inclination doesn't match the awfulness of it, that's telling in itself.I'm sure there are cultural gaps I'm not getting here, and perhaps this film made more sense to Japanese audiences. The tension does pick up in the last half hour of the film, but it takes forever to get there.

trashgang The same people who made the hyped "Grotesque" are behind Death Tube. If you read my review on Grotesque then you know that it wasn't my cup of tea. Death Tube has the same problem for me. First of all, it takes a bit too long to watch, it clocks in at almost 2 hours. It is a combination of Saw and Cube. There are puzzles to be solved like in Cube, if you can't do it you die. And the people who designed Death Tube are disguised as did Jigsaw. But the solving of the puzzles take a bit too long. The best part is the last reel but then it's too late. The teddy bears (the jigsaws we can say) are annoying after a while and there is too much of blah blah in it. Due the reason that it takes so long it is even low on blood and doesn't really contain gore. The first minute, the beheading, is really okay but after the opening credits it really is low on everything. Sad, it could have been a bitter rougher and more like a snuff flick. Clearly to see it was low budget. can't say any more, have to leave you know to watch You Tube...