OK, Well I was really looking forward to watching this film based on the reviews I had read 'mainly on here, but i have to be honest I found my self sorely disappointed! For starters There's absolutely NO explanation as to why 4 complete strangers (only two of whom actually know each other, 'Lucia' played by Nathalie Kelley, & 'Denis' played by Nick Eversman, who are couple), led by a 5th person 'Kris' the guide played by Max Riemelt, would be meeting up in a dark car park outside of a dodgy Berlin night club in the middle of the night. To go "Urban Exploring" (Wearing there best clothes I might add, to trek through open sewers' & old deserted subways from the Third Reich.
I assume it's because they'd planned to end the night in the club. Which I can only assume would end with every one in there giving them a wide berth. And who would blame them? After spending 3 hours walking through a dark, dirty, smelly rat infested subterranean maze, you have to assume you're going to smell a little funky!
Secondly I really, really don't know why you wouldn't turn back after getting attacked in the first 5 min's down there by two pit bull wielding, probably "Neo Nazi" skinheads lurking about in the dark! ( I certainly wouldn't take my beautiful looking GF down there to get Gang raped, chopped up or both! (just saying! 'Warning signs.) If all that wasn't enough to make you wonder what sort of geniuses your watching, one of the girls decides the best time to take a photo of the only person down there that knows where he's going is right at the point he's walking across a , rather unsafe "bridge" (a bridge meaning a slim piece of steel girder slung across a wide gap, spanning a high drop) resulting, obviously to anyone with half an idea about human reactions, in him getting blinded /startled and falling in said gap with rather (again) obvious consequences.
Jump forward about 20 min's and welcome to the fun house! we have a drugged and tied up BF, and a GF tied to a chair while being tortured by "A psycho" (cliché) now the said BF has to escape, over power the "psycho", free his GF, and hope he can find there way out of the deep, dark, hell that they have found there selves in. Should be easy right? Well not really, but it could of been a whole lot simpler if 'Lucia' (Nathalie Kelley) had chosen to go out with Ethan Hunt, or anyone with half a brain and a working set of balls between his legs! Which 'Denis' (Nick Eversman) clearly doesn't have. He could of,' I kid you not, walked out of there at least 3 times with nothing worse than a little cut to his GF ear, called the police and had the psycho locked away in a mental facility for the rest of his deranged little life! Instead he chose (which is lucky for us i guess, or really wouldn't be worth watching) to do everything you DON'T do in a horror film. You know like telling your mates I'll be right back or going back in to the house after you've just got out! Well needless to say I found my self shouting at the TV for most of the second half of the film! I never found out how or what exactly happened to the other two girls either. other than ending up part of the stew. I think they were just in the film for the lesbian kiss (actually more a lesbian peck on the lips) And please will some tell me how some one can be a psycho killer one minute and then don an apron and start mopping up floors & walls ,with a full cleaning trolley' in the middle of a open subway platforms the next! And right in the heart of Berlin (where's all the CCTV?) To many questions, not enough answers, not enough realism and far to many obvious wrong moves by the boy, unlike the killer who always seemed to be in the right place at the right time, even when one gets away and finds help after running for over a mile through tunnels and down holes!! worth a watch for the bloody bits not much else. 3/5
I assume it's because they'd planned to end the night in the club. Which I can only assume would end with every one in there giving them a wide berth. And who would blame them? After spending 3 hours walking through a dark, dirty, smelly rat infested subterranean maze, you have to assume you're going to smell a little funky!
Secondly I really, really don't know why you wouldn't turn back after getting attacked in the first 5 min's down there by two pit bull wielding, probably "Neo Nazi" skinheads lurking about in the dark! ( I certainly wouldn't take my beautiful looking GF down there to get Gang raped, chopped up or both! (just saying! 'Warning signs.) If all that wasn't enough to make you wonder what sort of geniuses your watching, one of the girls decides the best time to take a photo of the only person down there that knows where he's going is right at the point he's walking across a , rather unsafe "bridge" (a bridge meaning a slim piece of steel girder slung across a wide gap, spanning a high drop) resulting, obviously to anyone with half an idea about human reactions, in him getting blinded /startled and falling in said gap with rather (again) obvious consequences.
Jump forward about 20 min's and welcome to the fun house! we have a drugged and tied up BF, and a GF tied to a chair while being tortured by "A psycho" (cliché) now the said BF has to escape, over power the "psycho", free his GF, and hope he can find there way out of the deep, dark, hell that they have found there selves in. Should be easy right? Well not really, but it could of been a whole lot simpler if 'Lucia' (Nathalie Kelley) had chosen to go out with Ethan Hunt, or anyone with half a brain and a working set of balls between his legs! Which 'Denis' (Nick Eversman) clearly doesn't have. He could of,' I kid you not, walked out of there at least 3 times with nothing worse than a little cut to his GF ear, called the police and had the psycho locked away in a mental facility for the rest of his deranged little life! Instead he chose (which is lucky for us i guess, or really wouldn't be worth watching) to do everything you DON'T do in a horror film. You know like telling your mates I'll be right back or going back in to the house after you've just got out! Well needless to say I found my self shouting at the TV for most of the second half of the film! I never found out how or what exactly happened to the other two girls either. other than ending up part of the stew. I think they were just in the film for the lesbian kiss (actually more a lesbian peck on the lips) And please will some tell me how some one can be a psycho killer one minute and then don an apron and start mopping up floors & walls ,with a full cleaning trolley' in the middle of a open subway platforms the next! And right in the heart of Berlin (where's all the CCTV?) To many questions, not enough answers, not enough realism and far to many obvious wrong moves by the boy, unlike the killer who always seemed to be in the right place at the right time, even when one gets away and finds help after running for over a mile through tunnels and down holes!! worth a watch for the bloody bits not much else. 3/5