Best movie of this year hands down!

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

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

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

When I read the synopsis of this movie I was so excited to see it. The concept just seemed so interesting and original.It starts off with a kick, within minutes I was feeling the uneasiness that this movie is meant to inflict. Most of the actors are phenomenal, it's when I see movies like this that I don't understand how Hollywood can't cast better actors 90% of the time.The movie keeps a good steady pace, I wasn't bored at any point. Which is a feat considering my minuscule attention span.It was such a great movie until there was about 20 minutes left in the film. It takes a strange turn. I can't say much without giving it away. But when you see it you'll understand what I mean.I completely suggest it because other than that it's great. And who knows? You may like the ending more than me.

It's always interesting when one takes a genre like horror, or horror-porn and uses it to address larger themes and social issues. It doesn't always work, but when it does, as it does here (and even better in Aleksey Balabanov's far more horrific, but also more complex "Cargo 200") it can be a potent use of cinema. A group of young Americans returning from Canada are kidnapped by a pair of ex-soldiers dressed as border guards. These men were in Iraq and at Guantanimo and want to continue the torture and 'information gathering' they were part of as soldiers. So in the name of protecting the country, they lock up and torture these kids, largely because the driver of the kids' 4x4 has an Arab name. And soon you realize, given the number of innocents it's now acknowledged were (and probably still are) locked up among the 'real bad guys' in the war against terror, that this nightmare isn't very far from real ones that real people are going through right now in the name of national security. Surprisingly well acted for the budget and genre, as well as nicely shot, this certainly has moments where it shows its roots as low budget horror. There are awkward scenes, and forced bits of exposition. Logic gets stretched (but not too absurdly) at times. But it's not really all that gory (despite the allusions to 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' on the video box), and it's most effective terror is caused by tension and fear about what might happen, rather than any blood and guts you see. Among other things, this is an interesting examination of what happens to borderline personalities who are given permission by their country to torture in the name of good. Will these people be able to let go of the monsters we willingly unleashed inside them?

Awful, Awful Horror Movie, If actually you can call it that. I don't want to talk about this movie very much, simply because it's just not worth it. My only goal is to prevent anybody else from losing 90 minutes of their precious life to this crap. Yes, I regret wasting 90 minutes on this. The plot is just not there ! It's only two sick dudes torturing some poor bastards. And it's not even that. just a few scenes of that. It kind of wants to be political, but It's not at all. and it doesn't go anywhere. It's not critical of anything. That's just it. this film is nothing. Not even a horror movie. It's not scary. I would prefer cliché horror movies anytime. 'Cause I'd know what I'm up against and just skip the title. But movies like this are the worst. They are pure waste of good time. I'd rather play solitaire on my PC than watch this, if I were you.

It is quite evident that this thing was pieced together on a daily basis. I refuse to believe that someone actually sat down and wrote a complete script for this pile of trash, but I would love to know how they pitched this thing and managed to get someone to put up 3 million to put it together. SOMEONE is a very good salesperson to pull that off.The beginning was great and the actors did a fine job of showing confusion, anger and then surprise and fear when they are taken hostage by these two deranged "customs" agents. But once we're past that we lose any semblance of there being a plot or reason or motive behind these guys doing this. There's a few things that just don't make a lot of sense. Where did the guys get the uniforms, for one and obviously the local cops have been keeping an eye on these two.After the beginning it really seemed as though you had some small film crew take a bunch of actors out on a camping trip and each day started out with a creative meeting that began with, "What are we going to shoot today?" I should have listened to the other reviewers who said to give it a pass, but I didn't. If you get to this review PRIOR to watching this, please do NOT, you will thank me and the others here later if you watch something else...ANYTHING else.