This was a real slog to get through. I considered turning it off a few times and in retrospect I really wish I had done.
The synopsis I read before watching sounded quite intriguing. A collection of hardcore LARPers are role playing a scenario where nuclear bombs reigned down to end World War 2.
The gamesmaster goes missing and a ragtag bunch end up locked in a huge series of tunnels with seemingly no means of escape.
While this description does very loosely fit the plot of the film, it transpires not to be very interesting or entertaining at all.
The cast are so forgettable that the only ones I remember are the films protagonist, who keeps seeing a ghost, and a guy in a wheelchair... and that's only because he meets a particularly gruesome demise.
You'll notice I mentioned a ghost there... that's because this film has a paranormal element to it. Not a very good one truth be told, and it's often purposefully ambiguous as to whether the events that are happening are paranormal or a situation of the demented games master's making.
But it's definitely there. The problem is that it's so poorly written, badly strung together and terribly explained that you'll be wishing it wasn't.
Unfortunately those traits aren't limited to the spookier aspects of the picture.
There's a paint-by-numbers big twist at the end, which even Stevie Wonder would have seen coming, and it even has the audacity to leave things unresolved as if they thought anyone would bother filming a sequel.
It makes absolutely no sense, but then after an hour and a half of total nonsense I don't know why I expected anything different.
Nothing in this film is done well, and you'd be better off if you found an old bunker yourself and just spent a couple of hours locked in there in the dark.
If you're wondering how this dreck managed to score a lofty 3.5 stars take a look at the 8, 9 and 10 star reviews. They are so generic it's hard to tell if they have been written by spambots or the people responsible for the dialogue in the movie itself.
Either way they are responsible for inflating the rating for this 'film' higher than it ever deserved to be. One star is generous.
The synopsis I read before watching sounded quite intriguing. A collection of hardcore LARPers are role playing a scenario where nuclear bombs reigned down to end World War 2.
The gamesmaster goes missing and a ragtag bunch end up locked in a huge series of tunnels with seemingly no means of escape.
While this description does very loosely fit the plot of the film, it transpires not to be very interesting or entertaining at all.
The cast are so forgettable that the only ones I remember are the films protagonist, who keeps seeing a ghost, and a guy in a wheelchair... and that's only because he meets a particularly gruesome demise.
You'll notice I mentioned a ghost there... that's because this film has a paranormal element to it. Not a very good one truth be told, and it's often purposefully ambiguous as to whether the events that are happening are paranormal or a situation of the demented games master's making.
But it's definitely there. The problem is that it's so poorly written, badly strung together and terribly explained that you'll be wishing it wasn't.
Unfortunately those traits aren't limited to the spookier aspects of the picture.
There's a paint-by-numbers big twist at the end, which even Stevie Wonder would have seen coming, and it even has the audacity to leave things unresolved as if they thought anyone would bother filming a sequel.
It makes absolutely no sense, but then after an hour and a half of total nonsense I don't know why I expected anything different.
Nothing in this film is done well, and you'd be better off if you found an old bunker yourself and just spent a couple of hours locked in there in the dark.
If you're wondering how this dreck managed to score a lofty 3.5 stars take a look at the 8, 9 and 10 star reviews. They are so generic it's hard to tell if they have been written by spambots or the people responsible for the dialogue in the movie itself.
Either way they are responsible for inflating the rating for this 'film' higher than it ever deserved to be. One star is generous.