This will be a very short review because the movie has literally a 10 minutes plot which have been extended by the untalented writer and director Aaron Harvey. His first movie "The Evil Woods" was already bad, Catch.44 is worse.
Here is a sum up of the problems with this straight to DVD-Release.... We know that the main character Tes (Malin Akerman) will survive which makes the 30 minutes stare down contest in the end completely unnecessary. We know what is going to happen in the scene after that too because we know she has survived and since all the dialogs been painful and excruciating to a very high level we can't wait for this awful film to end. I am shocked Forrest Whitaker and Bruce Willis give their names for such a bad movie. Like I said, the plot is 10 minutes long but director decided to Tarantino the plot which was interesting for the first 30 minutes, after that it became clear that he was trying to copy pulp fiction but neither the acting nor the dialogs can compare with that. It is as simple as that.
The attempt was made to make a rough movie with hardcore people and put a bunch of twists on it. Fact is we didn't care for any of these people since they haven't been explained to us nor did they appear very sympathetic. In the end of the day nobody cares who is going to die. All these hard people that are supposed to measure up to Pulp Fiction appeared to be like Glee singing Metallica. I can't stress the point enough that we know that Tes will survive which makes the last 30 minutes completely pointless.
By far one of the worst movies I have seen in 2011, clearly one of the biggest regrets for Willis and Whitaker.
Don't watch it, it is really really bad, Aaron Harvey is a horrific writer, it is not even good on a pretentious level. In a mainstream blockbuster movie the entire plot would have been 3 minutes long, putting random dialogs in it doesn't make it better. No Message, No real storyline and the end given away in the beginning, it's not art, it's not entertaining just really bad.
3 Stars because because of the cast.
Here is a sum up of the problems with this straight to DVD-Release.... We know that the main character Tes (Malin Akerman) will survive which makes the 30 minutes stare down contest in the end completely unnecessary. We know what is going to happen in the scene after that too because we know she has survived and since all the dialogs been painful and excruciating to a very high level we can't wait for this awful film to end. I am shocked Forrest Whitaker and Bruce Willis give their names for such a bad movie. Like I said, the plot is 10 minutes long but director decided to Tarantino the plot which was interesting for the first 30 minutes, after that it became clear that he was trying to copy pulp fiction but neither the acting nor the dialogs can compare with that. It is as simple as that.
The attempt was made to make a rough movie with hardcore people and put a bunch of twists on it. Fact is we didn't care for any of these people since they haven't been explained to us nor did they appear very sympathetic. In the end of the day nobody cares who is going to die. All these hard people that are supposed to measure up to Pulp Fiction appeared to be like Glee singing Metallica. I can't stress the point enough that we know that Tes will survive which makes the last 30 minutes completely pointless.
By far one of the worst movies I have seen in 2011, clearly one of the biggest regrets for Willis and Whitaker.
Don't watch it, it is really really bad, Aaron Harvey is a horrific writer, it is not even good on a pretentious level. In a mainstream blockbuster movie the entire plot would have been 3 minutes long, putting random dialogs in it doesn't make it better. No Message, No real storyline and the end given away in the beginning, it's not art, it's not entertaining just really bad.
3 Stars because because of the cast.