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I wish the game took me first..., 16 March 2006
Author:
ravon80 from calgary, alberta
�because then I wouldn't have had to sit through the remainder of the
film wishing that sweet Armageddon (the actual thing) would come and
rescue me from what was surely a glimpse of hell's strongest torture.
Onto the review: I managed to win two tickets from a local radio
station to a small, private screening of Stay Alive, and being the
moderately paced horror fan that I am, I was looking forward to getting
the first peek at cinema's latest thriller � and although I wasn't
expecting to find a masterpiece, I at least gave the radio station
credit enough to send its "lucky" winners away to watch a film that was
at least mildly amusing.
I'm just glad I didn't pay for the tickets.
This film was evidently rushed, or at least distracted from its
original purpose. The dialogue is cheesy, overworked, clich� and
extremely annoying. Many of the characters follow down a similar path
to the script, and are overbearingly melodramatic, confusing and
deranged. If the faults had mercifully stopped there though, even then
I could have probably found a way to enjoy watching all of these
undesirable people get hacked into pieces by select demons, creatures
or flat out creepy people from the game. Once again, I was wrong. The
plot sends mixed signals to the viewer � despite its seemingly
simplistic nature � by constantly changing its direction and focus.
Weak special effects discredit the plot, and an unorthodox pace of
action makes the film seem more like a documentary.
The film does provide some shock-value through excessive gore;
something which is usually a crowd pleaser, but it becomes less than
satisfying due to a lack of genuine scares that it accompanies --
leaving the viewer with much to be desired, and a belief that this lack
lustre effort of a film placed a higher priority in delivering quantity
instead of quality.
Plus, I don't know if sharp camera angles or quick flashes were part of
the "artistic" balance of the film, but if the original intention was
to agitate the hell out of the audience with a borderline roller
coaster ride gone oh so wrong, or create the illusion that a five-year
old was operating the home video camera, well then, mission
accomplished.
This is the kind of film that makes me wish the film industry would
stop granting the creation of films with ridiculous plots to people who
wish to execute the aforementioned with $20 budgets. Here in lies the
problem, because I, who am usually (even with the most over the top
romantic comedies � which I am always forced to watch) able to find the
good or amusing in any film � something that would help me bear through
ninety-minutes of anything � was not granted a single life-line of
entertainment by this disaster of cinema.
Stay Alive provides nothing to stay alive for, and if the cast had
known that the end result would have been even half as bad as it
actually turned out to be, I'm sure they would have given into the
power of the game and died as soon as humanly possible.
Avoid.
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