the audience applauded

Fresh and Exciting

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Here is a shining example as to why you don't shoot a picture until the script has been carefully and completely worked out. The lame excuse of using ambiguity as a plot device is just a testament to the fact that many 'filmmakers' still have no idea what makes up good entertainment. For the record the actual story begins and hour and fifteen minutes into the film and cuts off just when we should be breaking into act two. Plus the narrative has a huge glaring error. There is no tension since we don't care about any of the characters. The actors gave it their best shot, but the script just didn't live up to its promise. As a result there are no cathartic moments of any kind. The story is also missing its thematic element. A raison d'être if you will. It winds up being just a long rambling mess of tired, uninteresting expository dialogue that ends abruptly for no apparent reason. One thing this filmmaker should learn is to never steer the narrative through dialogue. It's not a radio program - it's visual. Ultimately this is a very dull, nihilistic version of 'Airport'. Too bad, if the idea was executed by someone with talent it could have made a very entertaining picture.Real amateurville.

I love these kind of films, these are my thing. I love them. Low budget, enclosed location, interesting premise, mysterious plot with twists, a chance for a low budget script with good writers to show you don't need a huge budget for a great film if it's well written and acted - there are plenty of these out there. This is not one.This was awful. Atrocious acting - like something out of a bad TV show. Ridiculous characters - not even really stereotypes, as they are so unbelievable you couldn't identify them with any realistic person. An utterly absurd premise that made no sense whatsoever. Oh and a cop out ending on top of that.I won't go into detail as some people evidently enjoyed it and may want to see it, but this was one of the dumbest films I've seen recently and a wasted opportunity. That it gets >5 on IMDb is quite odd and I read a lot about fake voting from film makers....

Not one of the best films I have seen this year. Not terrible, just no where near the top. This is a decent movie with a unique story that could almost be believable; told really well over all with good effects, and a nice group of actors who all did a great job. I just felt lied to from the start though, and never really bought in, and I think that most people will feel the same. The writer obviously wanted to keep you wondering which thing was the truth until the end, but there is just too much of the man behind the curtain that we are shown just a bit too often for this to feel real. I did Enjoy this movie though due to the great cast, and the effects that I mentioned. No shortage of direction, and over all the production does have a real movie level to it. I recommend this movie to most people, a bit of violence, and very little in the way of language, this is just a thriller, mystery twist that you might like.

I got a chance to watch "Chariot" last night and I enjoyed it and then went to bed. At the time I thought it was an imaginative low budget movie with generally decent performances.Then I woke up and it hit me smack between the eyes just where they had gone utterly wrong.In the movie, seven people wake up on an airplane. They have no idea how they got there. They learn from a mobile phone that they find that the country is under nuclear attack and that they are in the plane as part of a secret operation to preserve a remnant of humanity. They also learn that their destination (Andrews Air Force Base) was destroyed and that they have to get the pilot to divert the plane. Of course the crew is locked in the cockpit and won't answer.One of the seven passengers (Genevieve) is a government employee in the program. She verifies everything about Operation Chariot.Before long, we have one person dead. Genevieve takes the available gun and gets into the cockpit, killing the co-pilot and severely wounding the pilot - who quickly dies from the injuries. One of the passengers is killed by the co-pilot as well.We later learn that the whole thing was an experiment and that Genevieve knew it. She was on the team trying to figure out how to get people to calmly sit through this flight during a nuclear attack and she shot two people to death. That's three counts of homicide, two people she shot and one count of felony murder for the guy who was shot by the co-pilot - all for a fake experiment she knew for a fact was a fake. If she survived, she'd be going away for life in any state of the union and that's a pretty big if because she just shot the pilot and copilot of the plane and nobody left alive can fly it.I do applaud some parts of the movie. A thriller set in just an old airplane was a good idea. No other sets whatsoever. The cast was small but quite good, especially Anthony Montgomery. If you're a Trekkie you'll know the name as the black navigator on Star Trek: Enterprise but he acted so completely different he was almost unrecognizable. Unfortunately that logic hole is so big you could ... fly an airplane through it.