I wanted to but couldn't!

hyped garbage

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

The script is bad. I mean very bad. Acting was horrible. I've done a review, I had to do this one. LOL

Imagine something like Cloverfield, only instead of an alien there is some unknown military force that is killing people without explaining what is going on. The film is one continuous shot, following the characters of Brittany Snow and Dave Bautista around while they try to survive in the middle of a war zone. It was a bit like Crank, too, so if you can think of a movie that mixes up Cloverfield and Crank you would expect brilliance. However, the film has a lot of flaws, starting with the very low budget production values and ending with scenes that are either poorly shot or badly acted. It keeps up the tension reasonably well, so I personally liked it.It felt like an indie experiment in making a movie, with some interesting ideas and a lot of "the hell with it" attitude towards film making. While I can't recommend people to watch it, I don't regret seeing it.

I sat down to watch this movie on Netflix without knowing anything about it except for the few words the description on Netflix listed. I often do that, sometimes being pleasantly surprised by what I get to see, and that's how I felt about this particular movie. It is definitely not a perfect movie, and you'll see some big flaws right in the middle of watching it. For starters, it's a little odd that the loyal U.S. military forces would not arrive and start fighting back a lot sooner than they do. (You would think that they would at least send some air support fairly quickly.) Also, the protagonists have ample opportunity to take the weapons and gear of the fallen enemy combatants, but they only do this ONCE in the entire running time. And the very ending of the movie (which I won't reveal) is for the most part very disappointing, leaving many viewers to think they are being cheated in some way.But fortunately, the movie does work for the most part. It's a very skillfully directed exercise, being that it's directed in a "real" time fashion, with seemingly very few clear edits. Instead, the movie plays out almost like one uninterrupted shot (though if you look real carefully, you will see where there are edits from one shot to another.) The movie also has a feel of authenticity, coming across as a more realistic treatment of the premise than you might think. The action and suspense scenes are also well done, containing a lot of excitement. If you are prepared to overlook those aforementioned (and other) flaws, the movie does manage to be effective enough to make it worth a look during a slow day.

The film isn't going to win any awards but if you're like me you've seen almost every movie going and need so thing to watch it isn't a bad movie it's just not amazing I really enjoyed the film except the ending