Overrated and overhyped

Load of rubbish!!

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

A poor version of Battle Royale, nothing really original, as there have been numerous movies over the years sharing the same plot. There are lots of employees in this company, so the directors try to interest us in only a handful of them, which sadly does not go that well either, since we do not know any background information on any of these characters. The vast majority of this film is extremely blatant and predictable, you feel as if you have watched this movie a hundred times, because this movie has no fresh ideas, they just recycle the old gory scenes from older cult classics of the genre. When you make a movie of this sort involving a large amount of people, you need a way to kill them off and quickly, which takes a huge amount of suspense and fun out of it, since more than half of the characters are utterly useless, running and screaming providing next to no entertainment. If a situation like this occured in reality more than 6 out of 80 would be ready to fight until death just to survive and return to their families. Instead of that the complete opposite happens in this film, people die for absolutely no reason without giving any effort to survive. All in all, a movie you can easily pass on, nothing new, same old genre shticks overused into a compilation of really bloody and unoriginal scenes. The ending of this movie implies an obvious sequel, which could be a potential possibility to make things right, since the premise of this sequel seems to be much more interesting. If you love this survival horror genre, there are far better movies to watch, for example, ''Battle Royale'', ''Nine Dead'', ''Circle'' and ''Exam'' just to name a few.

Misleadingly drawn in by what seemed to be an interesting 10min intro, I was taken on a downhill ride into moronsville. Had I realised that second rate shock/horror Aussie director Greg McLean was involved I may have avoided this nasty mess. His over-the-top obsession with all things repulsive sinks any mistaken notions that something intelligent may come out of this foolish effort. Writer/producer James Gunn appears to have taken ideas from several other works where dumbed-down crowd mentality takes over when life threatening danger is present. His ultra low-brow dialogue and situations are designed to manipulate viewers into a cheap, blood spattered gore fest - from this point on, wall to wall ugly movie making is then guaranteed by this low grade director. This time, you can trust the NY Times and the Verve reviewers - they got it absolutely right. I also take my hat off to IMDb poster; Popcorninhell who beckons audiences to: "Rise above people, rise above". Everyone involved with products like these should be sued for Terrorist Related Activities. Anyone, other than easily pleased blood-nuts should stay away from this sub-par no-brainer for their heads sake.

As a Latina I have to say that I was a little offended by this movie, first the beginning song seemed disrespectful to me to change the lyrics, some Latinos will understand. Second in Colombia flamenco music is not used, that is in Spain, a country where Latinos are really hated. They should have investigated a little more. Thank you.

I've been looking forward to this movie, I wasn't so disappointed by the overall concept, but the execution left a lot to be desired. This movie aims to tackle morality, what is good and what is bad and whose life is worth more. It reminds me of the Stanford Prison Experiment which we briefly covered in psychology - what do people do and how do they change if they're put in a position of power. Unpacking that psychology was interesting in the movie but I feel like we never get close enough to any of the characters to really care & there is a lot of 'convenient' killing for the sake of not having to do that deep dive that the topic asks for. It's a pretty gorey and blunt film that begs the question but fails to answer. Acting was decent enough, would I recommend it? Probably not, it shows us things we already know and expect but fails to provide any logic or reasoning, or offer any alternative perspective.