Simply Perfect

Memorable, crazy movie

Excellent adaptation.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The DVD cover pretty much covers the entire plot. Major John Cafferty (Tahmoh Penikett) leads a group of military people on a top secret mission into an Afghanistan cave. They get out minus their memories of the event. Most of the film takes place in a hospital setting with the actual trip being a flashback.If you look at the DVD cover you get to see what the "otherworldly" artifact looks like.The film would have been better if there was less hospital time and more tunnel time. The finding of the object and much of the film was designed to be disjointed which didn't work too well. It ended as if they are going to generate a series...perhaps for SyFy. Mark acting and dialogue as "needs improvement."Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

I live this movie!Colin Feore is one of my favorite actors, and has much training in both theater and film, and his talents are certainly not wasted in this film. Not only is he a welcome sight in this film, but the male who plays the lead character is a good choice for the role. The female characters are strong, and its nice to see scifi/thrillers with prevalent feminist characters. The script is quite good, as it introduces the audience into a sphere of mystery, while feeding enough clues to allow the story to unfold. It is a suspenseful, high stakes debrief, and the audience realizes the events that took place in Afghanistan as the characters do, and its awesome to see their development as more of that knowledge is remembered. The scifi aspects of the movie are well received, and they set this film apart from your traditional shoot em up action pictures. Considering the resources these guys had to work with, it was worth every penny to watch. Would recommend to any scifi/thriller lover!

What a great time our family had watching this cool new film. Along with our teen age sons, we were captivated by the twists and turns from the very beginning. Jacob's Ladder and the Truman show meets the Twilight Zone, this film suspended belief completely yet was grounded enough to keep us guessing and intrigued. We had a few questions at the beginning but slowly all was revealed in a poignant and interesting way. Maybe too many gunfire exchanges for mom, but all was redeemed by characters that were well defined and evolved as their motivations were unveiled- along with a very interesting plot twist that kept us on our seat until the end. We had so much fun watching this movie together, can't wait for "Painkillers 2!"

The acting isn't bad as I've seen some say. The story line is so so & parts don't make much sense. The script is definitely a B flick. Cinematography is also good. Its just too bad they didn't put more of an effort into the script. It's not a complete waste of time but not a movie you're going to talk about expect to try to figure out what really happened. It's not one of the worst I've seen. Only about 50% disappointed. An A for acting, A for cinematography but a C- for storyline & script. A lot of things don't add up & there seem to be some conflicting information about what is what. For example, at one time he says his wife does in a car accident. But yet she's still alive. Daughter died in accident as well but he did it for her? Those 2 pieces of info don't lend very much to the storyline itself.