At the End of Eight

The first scene was well done, but unfortunately the movie went downhill from there. The rookie cast and high school direction resulted in laughable moments that were intended to be intense. Giving it three stars for the effort.

I was out of it when the two killers were fist fighting with each other for like 5 minutes upstairs in the bedroom, and the teens decide to go down into the basement rather than run out the front door lol. Why did they do that?!

And besides, they broke into someone's home for a stupid game to win money so I had zero sympathy for any of them. Especially that special idiot who made himself a peanut butter sandwich and drank the homeowner's liquor. I was happy when he was killed.

Then the girl has the gall to say to the homeowner "We didn't do anything!"....Um, yes you did and if you still can't see that after being tied up by the angry homeowner, whose home you broke into you deserve what you get.

There's a lame reveal at the end I won't spoil, but after that part the film tries to make the viewer sympathize and root for the home breakers, but I didn't fall for it and kept on hoping they would meet their deserved demise from the home owners.

I'm giving it 4 stars for the plot and the acting wasn't half bad. And there's the tired trope of giving a long speech with a gun when in reality he would've just fired. I hate when movies pull that because it's not realistic and only served to make the contrived ending which I completely despised. I REALLY hated those final 30 seconds. It was just dumb and sadly entirely expected in today's politically correct films. At least it's short and was free.

This movie is so so so bad. It's not even so bad it's good. It's not the typical intentionally corny horror movie that ends up being good. It's just plain bad. I'm not even sure how the average rating is close to 5 stars?

It is written badly. Directed badly. Acted badly.

It is written so horribly that while watching one scene in particular the thought crossed my mind that it looked like an entry for a middle school script contest. In the scene one of the intruders finds a missing person's poster sticking right out of a box. Who on earth bothers to put a missing person's poster in a basement, in a box, but conveniently leaves the bright red "Missing" headline sticking up for all to immediately see?

The plot is everywhere and nowhere. There's a twist at the end that makes no sense and is unnecessary. Where was the director in all of this? Was this person really looking at the script, plot as a whole, and acting and thought "This is great."

My god, the acting was bad from beginning to end. The woman jogging around the neighborhood in the opening scene didnt even do a good job of pretending to jog.

The concept was there: a contest to sneak into a house and stay there for 8 hours. "I see you" did it well, so they tried too. However, the movie just stumbles along, literally - the characters enter the house and stumble, and hit everything, making as much noise as possible! Oh, no big deal! I'm not surprised they were found. The "twist" raised it to 3 stars but i can't forgive bad audio editting (voice overs made me think this movie was a foreign film), nor the clumsey screen writing where they tried to advance the plot with weak dialog. I appreciate the motives of each character but not enough to like any of them. I was just so disappointed.

This movie is so low budget, so poorly acted and so bad... so bad it's almost good. If you are rating based on fun, this gets more than one star! Come on, one star reviews! I read in one review they made this for under $5000 and you can tell. But it was $5000 well spent. The premise of the movie has been done before, but there's an interesting twist to it and it is not in the least bit boring. The "villain" Macbeth is actually very well played by this actor. Actually you can see the potential in most of the actors here. It's not necessarily bad acting, but purposely played off that way. And how can you not love a movie where instead of running out the front door, they actually do run upstairs? It's too corny not find some joy in the ridiculousness of it all. The movie never tries to be something it's not. Although I do get the undertone of current society's reliance on social media possibly leading otherwise innocent people to ensue in mayhem, etc. Not an original idea, but there is a platform here. Even the part with the ripped shirt... it doesn't come off as "oh, give me a break" in a bad way. It's actually endearing. I'm not going to give a summary of this thing. Others have already done it. But honestly, it's a good mindless watch if that's what you're looking for. And the director (who also acts in the movie) is alarmingly attractive. Would love to see more from him.