DarkGame

For a British film especially, the writing is subpar and lacking any subtlety. It's like it was written by a 12 year old. There is a scene about a third of the way through where the large group of captives are all holding guns and 'forced' to play russian roullette while their 'captors' are standing around the room without guns, goading and mocking them. This tells you everything you need to know about this film. Why they decided to take a bunch of British actors and make them fake American accents & pretend they were in Portland USA rather than Bristol (the actual filming location) is beyond me. The end just inexplicably disintegrated into nothing.

Read reviews about 10 mins in ..agreed with most it looks amateurish but the actual game show was well done and the actor who played the host was watchable ..all the American accents were passable apart from the police officer with the grey beard it was all over the place ..it holds its own against saw and hostel and they had bigger budgets so hats off to all involved ..in what could easily have been a complete mess the direction was quite tight and and the acting was ok .....................I've seen far far worse films that have had rave reviews..I'll name one bloody Black phone lol ..like I said not ground reading but very watchable.

This was a confusing watch..... why they have tried to make it an American film, when the streets (with the newly introduced 20mph road markings and Bristol landmarks) and actors are clearly british, but they are putting on god awful accents, the captains uniform is something you would pick up from a fancy dress shop and even police department looks like a sadly made up job centre office.... And the plot, ummmm..... not great! Don't even get me started on the lighting, was it in the room with us? Hardly anything likeable about this movie that I was tricked into watching with it being in the top 10 on Netflix, how?

Actually more than one game! So no pun intended! Yes if that sounds familiar ... you may have ... Saw in mind! You saw it coming anyway (the pun that is). You may be tired of all the movies trying to copy Saw - and I don't think this is able to reach the heights of it ... maybe not even some of its sequels power.

That said, the movie is more than fine .... especially the main bad guy. He is having so much fun with his role ... and it shows! Even if he covers his face - I assume there may be another movie in the works - or at least planned ... maybe prequel, maybe something or rather someone else than him taking over ... maybe him - depends on the end of the movie, doesn't it? That was rhetorical obviously.

Interesting horror with some horrifying effects ... not for the faint hearted for sure ... be wary if you are sensitive ... just saying.

Like another reviewer said, a movie for me is either I'm in or I'm out, in the first 15 minutes. This one, I was in! Kept me entertained. I particularly rated Rick Yale playing the convict, acting wise. Shame he wasn't in it more. Yeah, the plot may not have been the most original, but not many films are now. Hard to come up with an idea that hasn't been done in some capacity, by now. This one touched on some bizarre big brother come Saw concept. What I expect from a netflix flick now is a good standard of acting, a decent dialogue and a storyline that can keep me entertained. Not expecting every film to be an earth shattering unique, block buster. This one I felt had good pace from the start, to draw me in, was entertaining and definitely delivered an overall good effort, though slightly predicatable twists. Character wise, gave a fair bit of personality and background to help with the storyline to the main characters. Looking forward to potentially a sequel!