An Exercise In Nonsense

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

If the incessant screaming (see - 'lead' female actress) doesn't get to you, the complete lack of decent storyline and awful acting certainly will. Your time is too precious to be wasted. Just, don't.

I really don't care for modern horror films that much. Many of them just seem so terrible that I usually don't bother with them. "Paintball" is yet another example of unoriginal and cliché horror. "Paintball" is another great example of not just a bad horror movie, but also a bad action movie.8 people are dropped into the wilderness to compete in a paintball tournament. However, they come to realize that the game is more deadly than they thought as they find out that the enemies are using actual guns instead of paintball guns to hunt and kill them.Firstly, my biggest problem with this movie is how badly written the characters are. There is literally no depth at all to any of them. I didn't care at all when they died off. In this case, however, I was actually looking forward for the characters to die because the movie was so bad, I was eager for it to end. Character development matters. Take these 3 words and tweet it to everyone who has ever thought of directing a horror movie.Also, most of the characters are idiots. When one of them was being shot at, he ran right out into the middle of combat making him completely vulnerable just to get himself shot and killed. Also, some of the characters behave in ways no one would behave in in real life. When one of them was in trouble, instead of helping him, his friend just took his bulletproof vest and left him to die when he had more than enough time to save him. At one point in the movie, one of the other characters pushed someone into a trap causing her to die for no apparent reason whatsoever. There is no reason for him to do what he did. The movie tried to have him go insane but that was a very unrealistic and lazy way to kill off one of the characters. Also, one of the characters lost his mind and ran away from the group leaving himself vulnerable and he got himself killed because of his action. That was another unrealistic and lazy way to kill off a character. Also, when one of the characters picked up a machete and turned around, she stabbed one of her friends, killing her. That was yet another lazy and stupid way to kill off a character. Because of this, I was easily able to predict when each character was going to die because of their stupidity and how predictable the movie is. In short, this movie has some of the most idiotic and deficient movie characters ever put to screen.As for the action, it's just typical gunfights and not much more. There was nothing impressive in any of them and despite a long take near the beginning, nothing else stood out whatsoever. What I really hated about them was the shaky camera. I have no idea why so many people still do this. Moviegoers hate it when movies have this. It distracts us from the movie and it gives me a headache. It is also bad cinematography in my opinion.Like most low-budget, modern horror movies, the acting is garbage. The reason this is so common is because many good actors know better than to star in modern horror movies because they know that they will ruin their careers by doing so. Many horror movie directors are well aware of this so they hire those actors who are very untalented and take any role to get a paycheck. They hope that they will be successful enough to hire great actors. However, the movies they make are so bad that they usually sell poorly so their careers usually don't last very long. None of the actors in this movie are impressive at all and I felt that none of them gave a good performance.Also, the ending left me more than underwhelmed. I was hoping for an explanation for what went on in the movie and I didn't get much of one. It barely contained any exposition and I was more confused in the end then I was in the beginning. Its ending is much too thin. The movie doesn't provide enough clues in order for me to be able to speculate a theory about what I think the origin of the area they were in is.The only reason this doesn't get a 1/10 is that the premise is actually pretty good and creative for once. The movie shows some promise in the opening 10 minutes and it actually has an original concept. Also, it actually has a pretty decent long take. Unfortunately, the movie ruins any minimal hopes I had for it after 15 minutes.In conclusion, if you don't mind the style over substance, idiotic characters, and unoriginal and poorly-executed action sequences and if you just like watching senseless gun-battles then this movie is for you. However, if you don't like that then you're likely going to find this to be yet another worthless horror movie which is completely inferior to dozens of other classic action, war, and horror movies out there which are actually well made. My tip is to avoid this at all costs.

If there's one thing I've learnt from contemporary American horror films, it's that you can't trust foreigners, especially Eastern Europeans, who, at the first available opportunity, will sell you into slavery, harvest your organs, use you in bizarre scientific experiments, torture you for the amusement of others, or in the case of Paintball, trick you into becoming human targets in a ruthless manhunt. Still, with characters as dumb and obnoxious as those in this film, folk who willingly allow themselves to be hooded, shackled and driven to an unknown destination by complete strangers, I say have at it, Mr Johnny Foreigner—by all means slaughter these irritating, whiny, gung-ho morons for sport—you'll be doing the human race a favour!The whole 'survival game for real' idea is hardly original (Nico Mastorakis did the same thing decades earlier with The Zero Boys, which was quickly followed by Masterblaster), but that doesn't mean it doesn't still have the potential to be hugely entertaining; sadly, Paintball blows it in almost every conceivable way, the cocky characters just begging for a bullet between the eyes only being the start of the problem. In addition to making the viewer not give a damn whether anyone lives or dies, the film suffers from lousy acting, a lack of decent action, and dreadful direction from Daniel Benmayor, who opts for a horrible wobbly cam technique and the use of POV for the killer, neither of which work particularly well: the frantic camera-work makes it hard to follow the action while the potentially gory POV kills are seen through some sort of high-tech thermal imaging goggles that display everything in monochrome and negative, meaning that the death scenes are frustratingly short of the red stuff (blood looks like milk!).After much tedium, frantic running around the woods, and screaming, the final survivor (a woman, naturally) is inexplicably given assistance by the people controlling the hunt, and faces off against the killer in a derelict building where the script introduces a dumb 'deus ex machina'—a case inexplicably chained to a wall—that comes in very handy in defeating the enemy. As the winner of the game, the woman is allowed to walk free, but in a very confusing final scene, is seen being pursued down a railway track. Here's hoping she got flattened by a train!

** possible spoilers ** but to be honest nothing could make this film any worse. the acting is so bad . charters are non existent just the standard stereo type Europeans , only gave it a chance because niel maskell was in it and i got lot of time for him . but his shady American accent was shocking. the thing i didn't understand the most was the fact they were running around with there paintball guns like they would help them .. i just kept thinking there is someone shooting bullets at u drop the toy and f**king run . was beyond stupid . didn't even finish it . could only stand to watch 50 mins. i do like low budget horror but there still has to be something to it, other people have said it on the reviews but its like they just stole all the ideas from other films.just don't waste your time and skip this .. not even a one time watch