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It's nothing like SAW. The only vaguely similar thread is that the victim must complete a series of tasks that continue to be more difficult. Other than that, they have nothing in common. It's not really a horror film, more of a psychological thriller. There are only a handful of films that have been successfully done in one setting with 2 characters; I include Bug, Open Water, & Scenic Route. But The Odds is more similar to EXAM (2009). I believe The Odds is about 2 people in a room who are both playing a game to win money and neither of whom know the real rules, although one of them thinks they know. I feel the Master was simply performing as he was instructed (some reviews say he 'took advantage' but it's called Grooming. The game was not 'rigged'; it seems more like neither the Player or the Master knew the true rules. I felt this was an interesting story but the acting lacked the tension and intrigue that it could have. The Player was just not someone we could connect with. And after agreeing to play the game, she then questions everything as if she is being held captive. She lacks either the emotion of someone being tortured nor the stoic demeanor of someone prepared to endure what may come. There was simply not enough anticipation or emotion to make the long moments rewarding. I also thought there were a lot of very rookie filmmaking mistakes, like the clean loose bandages (and suddenly dirty in one scene); and the Player's shirt was wet in one area then suddenly in a completely different area. All in all, I found the film entertaining enough to watch through to the end and thought the ending was rewarding, although very unrealistic. Almost a character-study that could have been much more engaging. I can see why the story itself won The Poe Contest.

This movie is a poor mans EXAM or a Poor Copy of the Killing Room. It starts off well but then as it tries to ratchet the tension it goes off on it's own little illogical tangent. The movie never really concludes to a satisfying ending either, it's like we have run out of ideas to torture this young lady and have no idea on how to end the story. The Odds had protentional but blew it in the final act.

This started off fairly promising but boy did it get dull fast! By the time it was half way through I was skipping forward as I'd stopped caring and just wanted to get to the end!

It was trying to be very clever, psychological and deep but (with my limited medical knowledge) I couldn't help feeling the main girl recovered from assorted torture methods rather quickly!

I don't know why people are giving this movie a bad review, I'm a cinephile and I've seen a lot of movies! And I liked this movie a lot. Don't trust the bad reviews, watch it for yourself!!! The ending was great!

The acting of the female was disappointing in that she was a bit dramatic & unconvincing. Thee whole role playing thing was absurd. What got me the most was given the excruciating pain of the torture, she continued with the role playing & in parts, you'd never know it had happened. The agony & aftermath of would leave you unbelievably weak, sedated almost & whimpering & screaming continually. It was like, after the torture act, she as over it very quickly. Silly. So it was unconvincing. Along with the acting.

This one room film with two actors stays enticing. The thrill and gore are on Alfred Hitchcock - unseen. The plot is straightforward, and, honestly, the protagonist is a bit slow.

Yet somehow, this movie is on point. Even though it could have been better, all involved worked magic with so little.

This wasn't what I was expecting at all, I was pleasantly surprised. I expected a saw type torture porn film but it is more psychological, tense. Yes it has a couple of toe curling scenes but it's never gratuitous. The two leads are remarkable and the tension rises. Kept me gripped until the very satisfying end. Which is rare for me. A simple one room set, two actors (mostly) and I recommend you all give it a watch. Far better than most.

As a regular gambler and horror fan I wanted to watch this. Its mostly just a graphic torture movie but it still somehow gets pretty boring at times and drags on way too long. Still, for two actors in one room the whole movie, they did some decent acting and I really liked some of the themes and quotes from the film about money and odds and hardship etc. Smart writing in some parts and the ending payed off for me. I'll give an extra point above average for the lead. Her bra should win an oscar for best supporting actress

Boring unsypathetic characters doing annoying things. The way this movie presents itself is that the "challenges" are the main component, but they are quick and underwhelming, in between long boring annoying scenes of the main characters doing boring annoying things. Instead: If you want gore: Saw If you want a horror movie about a game, for money: would you rather Neither of those are perfext movies but are much better than this 2 hour waste of time

Torture with no real message and the special effects are pretty cheep. I did like the lead girl and James Fuertes is always a pleasure to look at.

Woman plays a game showing how far she is willing to self-harm for a million bucks. Film is almost entirely about her interaction with the referee.

This is probably as low budget as anything-- basically one setting, two speaking characters, most gore is insinuated rather than shown, might have been filmed over the course of a week or less-- but they do a good job with the budget by making those choices, and while it might have a late-night Showtime feel to it, it's at least just a B-movie, not a C-movie; production values are still high.

As I said in the title, this is basically a suspense film, about character interaction, although there is some torture porn to it. The gore is mostly off-screen, but if you don't like gore, stay away. Character interaction is with a cookie-cutter misogynist, and I'd be willing to bet there are some deeply individual misogynists who would resent the portrayal; I guess they should probably stay away as well.

Acting is strong, but character writing is on the two-dimensional side and serves narrative convenience over strong characterization. It's no Streep vehicle. Still, good enough for this film.

I suspect some of the reviews here are from shills, people involved in production, but this isn't a bad film, acceptable for what it is, although very far from high art.

I think most people didn't get the point of the movie, I mean my interpretation is that this whole ''game'' represents a toxic relationship with gaslighting, abuse and manipulation. This is why they didn't focus that much on the gory part but more on the psychological side of things.

What a waste of time. This is an amateurish movie with no plot, sense or script. The whole movie is in a room playing a stupid game. The ending confirm how stupid is this. Avoid it. Go for a walk instead or look for another one.

The lead character is a woman who comes from pain abs a dark past. The storyline is that she involves in a game of gambling. The gamble is supposed to be if the participants will quit or move on the next phase, round. Apparently, each participant or player has a broker, and agent who will stay with them for whatever reason, to stay focused, to keep on going, not give up or to make sure the rules are followed. The participants (we assume there are several but see only one) are subjected to tortures that they need to endure. The acting was good, the lead was really good. She reminded me of the girl from The Hunt. Interesting movie. At least a different subject as the ones repeated so many times. I recommend it. Not an Oscar worthy movie, but quite a nice one. Entertaining.

Amazing what creative people can do with two good actors and $250,000. The excellent writing worked on two levels; one, the actual plot, and two, to remind me of a few past sociopaths I've brushed up against. There was nothing that could have been better imo; was just a really well done 7 star movie.

I was dissapointed with this film as it was really not that gory, I was hoping it would be gory and full of blood since the plot was for how much can you handle pain., but when I watched it., it was mostly all talk and less action in summary.

won't get into the details but Abbi who plays the game, did a good job in acting., sadly, I expected it to be sicker than it is.

dissapointed to say the least.

This movie is 1hr and 47min but it felt double that. Its soooo slow, and when you expect something awesome is going to happen towards the end it just falls on its face then provides a stupid ending. Waste of time.

This movie isn't terrible, but it isn't good either. I think it was okay for being kind of low budget, but it could've been better. For it being a movie about how much pain a person can take, most of the "tests" violence is off screen. The dialogue - oh man. I don't think it's meant to be funny, but it is. It's probably 30 minutes longer than it needs to be. That said, we had fun watching it.