Stylish but barely mediocre overall

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

How this movie made it beyond 4 is beyond me. Not one watchable or believable scene, pathetic direction, can't blame the actors for the otherwise sordid movie this is. The screenplay writer needs to be sent to Syria before he/she releases the next one. Even Asylum movies are better than this - wait I didnt check if this was by them b4 I wrote this so the joke might be on me

One may be justified in saying that the story spirals out of control. Nonetheless, we have a spine-tingling thriller here with a woman, a victim of a home invasion with her child in the house, signs up for a self-defense course.Obviously, she gets much more than she ever expected with the hard-nose instructor-even some romance at the beginning until the latter shows his true colors.The guy has committed previous murders and actually thinks that he is helping in his instructions with the macabre that descends upon our woman in question.Apparently, we see that she learned her lessons too well as we see by film's end.There are plenty of plot twists along the way with the fiend discovering who has been committing all the burglaries in the neighborhood and forcing him to plant drugs in the woman's house when she protests to the police about his extremely rough methods.

The premise alone is so eye-rollingly rote that even if it were to have been executed competently I'd be surprised if the feature was anything other than cripplingly mediocre, an uninspired amalgamation of every day-time television trope one can think of forced into the constraints of a blandly acted and boringly shot mess of a piece that features a constantly overbearing and oddly pop-infused musical score which is almost hilariously over-wrought and inexplicably loud to the point where dialogue is often near inaudible; the apparent 'experts' in the flick are so ridiculously unconvincing as they clumsily try to convince us that they are trained killers by flailing their arms or rolling around on the floor - until they're exposed to their ultimate weakness, that being slightly wet moss, of course - and every character lacks any legible arc beyond the basics of beating the bad guy for example, but it is really the absolutely awful script that drags this down to almost unwatchable levels because no one ever says anything remotely interesting or, worst of all, anything that a real human being would ever even think to say. 2/10

What were the producers of this extended music video thinking? The not particularly good music was incessantly oppressive from start to finish; 86 minutes of continuous acoustic assault. For the first time that I can recollect, I was actually looking forward to the commercial breaks, as they provided some much needed respite.It wasn't even background noise, and while it never quite overwhelmed the actors' delivery of their respective lines, it was certainly a significant distraction. Then again, given the poor quality of the script, and indeed the entire screenplay, maybe this was deliberate.The only redeeming quality, it makes one appreciate the beauty of silence.