It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Watched this on the UK horror channel. Iv'e ticked the spoiler box simply because i recommend you read all the other reviews with a rating of 1 or lower. There is not much wrong with the acting or cast if you like B movies. It's the ridiculous script and lack of plot, or comprehension of why the killer is killing, which is the real Killer in this film, and the ending, that isn't an ending, it's all so vague and disconnected and so frustrating, as after watching the film all the way through, i was hoping for some kind of logical or meaningful ending. I, unfortunately, was wasting my time.And all i felt at the end, was anger, that i'd wasted an hour and a half of my time, watching such a meaningless, and pointless film.

'ATM' tells us about three people stuck in a kind of phone booth with a cash machine. A killer is lurking outside on the dark yard, so they dare not leave the booth. The most clever thing to do would be leaving the booth and split. If they ran into three different directions, the killer could catch only one, while the other two do get away to call the police. Agreed, that is bad for the one who is caught, but staying inside the booth until he kills all three is definitely the worst solution. Sorry I don't get around * spoilers * when discussing the movie, but to the obvious annoyance of the audience, they go for the worst solution, and that explains the low marks: credibility goes out of the window which is a pity, because otherwise it's a well acted dark little thriller.I especially liked the ending when the pictures from the surveillance cameras are shown. They seem to prove that one of three victims was the killer, and this is a brilliant way of demonstrating the importance of camera angles and editing. What a slim line between truth and error, and that makes you wonder how often pictures from surveillance cameras are rather misleading than clarifying in crime cases. Food for thought like I have not seen before in another thriller. They should have spent the same thoughtfulness on the killer's concept and motivation instead of relying on accidents.I see why many people disliked the movie very much. However, since I liked the 3 main characters and the creative ending, I give it 5 of 10 which translates as 'worth watching once' at least.

So here's how the pitch meeting probably went: "So we're going to do a thriller, kind of like Phone Booth, but with an ATM machine. We're going to get the Buried writer on board and some young up-and-coming talent to play three saps who get tormented by a faceless killer who traps them in one of those stand-alone bank machine buildings in the middle of nowhere in the dead of night.""Okay, so far so good.""Except they're not trapped. Like the doors are unlocked and they can leave any time.""Wait so... what?""Don't worry about it, okay? They're just like, in there. And the killer, see, he has all these ATM schematics that we'll superimpose over the opening credits, Se7en-style, to show that he meticulously masterminded this whole thing.""Alright I'm listening.""Except he doesn't bring a weapon of any kind with him. Or tools. Like, he's planning on messing with the heat 'cause it's really cold out and he has to like clang around in the back there to turn the heat off and also flood the place--cause it's waterproof. He just gets the tools out of their car, see.""So he has their car keys?""Oh no, they have the keys in there with them. They don't make a break for the car while he's doing other stuff though, because they parked really far away for some reason.""I'm starting to see the logic of this. And of course they don't have phones in there.""Why would they? It's 2012, nobody has a cell phone.""Alright, I'm into this. And this killer--he's some disgruntled guy, right? Like we find out that our heroes actually wronged him somehow so what's happening to them is karma? Twist ending, love it.""Oh no, he's a total rando who goes around trapping people in ATM booths and the like because he's really bent out of shape about living in a storage container.""SOLD."

I went into this movie with an open mind. After all, the premise seemed so delightfully old-school, and as a fan of the old slashers, I was just glad to get a break from all of the possession movies (not that all of them are bad).Wow. I'm not even entirely sure where they were trying to go with this. I would love to give some sort of a small plot summary, but it's difficult to do so when it's this convoluted, slow-paced, and dull. I really did try to find some excuse to like this movie, but it wouldn't let me.There are plenty of reviews here that can give you 1,000 reasons not to watch ATM, but I'm here to tell the people like me who love the old masked slashers and are hoping to find some glimmer of suspense or character development, don't. They would have been better off going over the top and trying to make this movie campy, but they didn't do that either. They just left us sitting in an ATM with a couple of people that have zero chemistry with each other, waiting for the credits to start rolling. Don't worry, if you find yourself halfway through it and you think to yourself, "I guess I'll just see how it ends. I can make it another 45 minutes." Please just save yourself some trouble and read the synopsis. The ending will only lead to frustration, confusion, and disappointment.