Sick Product of a Sick System

not as good as all the hype

Absolutely brilliant

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Suspenseful thriller that had me hooked till the end. What an annoying,ridiculous cop out ending. Ruined the whole film. Such a pity!

So basically why I was tempted to write this review is because so I see so many people hating this movie so much. I understand, you don't like reality and want to live in a fairy-tale with your pink glasses on? Carry on. This is all this movie is about. People reviewing this movie as one of the worst because it is violent? You must have been warned! That this is a horror/thriller film, if you hate the genre, so don't even watch it! Why would you rate it then? So maybe you think this is some cheap Hollywood horror story about demons and ghosts? Maybe you thought it is a chasing-shooting criminals police story? No it is not. This movie is a reflection of the sick world we living in. You can never be safe.This movie is a senseless act of violence? If you don't get the meaning, it does not mean that it is meaningless! I've seen somebody comparing this movie to Natural Born Killers and reviewed both as meaningless and the worst movies ever seen. So you actually think that every act of violence has to be justified, dont you? You don't care watching a movie about war, when heroic americans are killing innocent vietnamese or muslims in the east. You don't care when your superhero kills innocent policemen who maybe have a family and children and just doing their job to catch them? You're just all ignorant and hypocritical. This movie is all that about. Maybe you are lucky to be rich and you don't see what happens in the world of the poor and the middle class. You may be a beta male living in your mansion and all you care is your wristwatch and a tennis course. What do you think would have happened if there were 2 black guys instead trying to get help from these people in this movie? If they are lucky enough to get this deep into the neighborhood unnoticed, as soon as they rang a bell, the police would have been there. Now these two white psychopaths just got inside the house, because they came just like they would themselves. Kindly and politely asking for help, same category of richmen, with 2000$ worth of tennis clothes on. That is this movie all about, that you think you are rich and safe in your house, millions of dollars worth, but you're not. If someone knows your rules, they can reach you really easy and punish you, face to face, as a beta male you can't do anything. What about looking at the pop culture nowadays? There are teenagers rapping about how dealing drugs, being in a gang, having gun, having a prison time are so cool. Youngsters love them so much. Same as in the movie Natural Born Killers, how some psychopath couple went on their bloody rampage through the country and became idols for the youth because of the press. I think something like this actually happened in USA before this movie. Of course, being edgy is always cooler than studying and working all your life. If you had any brains of your own in this life, you would understand why it is so hard for young people to accept the fate of your life in the modern society. Especially, if you are born in middle-class or lower.

From the ratings alone you can see the reception to this movie is 50/50. And the reason isn't solely because anything is done poorly; most agree the acting to the cinematography, etc is done professionally. It's what it says as a film to the viewer that pisses people off. And honestly I'm not going to act like I don't understand it. I mean it sort of wags its finger at you for expecting the outcome. But to me I think it's also a great message and I think we do need it considering the saturation of horror and our numbness to violence in general. (At least what most people interpreted out of it). And even though I understand why people hate the message I still think people are too hard on it. Most films don't even include the audience as a character in the film. And the message doesn't say you're a bad person for expecting the outcome. I mean if you are going to think it's still forced and useless, at least acknowledge the effort gone into it. Any-who the performances were still phenomenal all around. The director took the blueprints of the old house from his previous film and based the new house off that. And despite being a shot-for-shot remake, it was vastly improved on the cinematography front. It's tense, smart, and just a fun experience. Hope I persuaded someone to at least check it out. I tried to keep this spoiler free. Just wanted to explain to people who are on the fence that the ratings are not low graded because it's a poorly made movie rather it's what it has to say. And what I interpret out of the film might be entirely different than what you interpret out of the film. I personally love this film and every time I see it I get more out of it every watch.

7 1/2Haneke makes a movie in which the genre clichèes don't apply ( they get twisted in reality) and that's high praise. It's also a movie that doesn't take itself too seriously, and admits more than once that it's fiction we're looking at. Although the intentions are admirable and clearly conveyed, even if it's beautifully shot, the movie is not the easiest to follow as it is very slow paced, in contrast with the type of story portrayed.