Davidhill221173 The idea behind this film is great and the front cover depicting helpless individuals in cages is definitely eye catching. Then I read the back and was hooked and reaching for my wallet before heading to the tills. This is going to be another Red state, or from a horror and gore aspect, Frontiers. However, despite a well acted and promising start, things just didn't go anywhere. And as for the final third, point and what was it springs to mind. I have seen some disappointing films, such as the Hamiltons, but this, not only takes the biscuit, it is the biscuit. If you are in the mood to be bored, annoyed, frustrated I would suggest watching the new cartoon versions of scooby doo.........there is 100% more gore and suspense in an episode of that than is in this. I beg you not to watch as you cannot get those 90 minutes back

jackmeat Movie review:This movie has some of the most top and bottom of the board type ratings on IMDb. You will have to judge for yourself. 5 friends are on their way home from a wedding in Canada and are stopped at the border before returning to the USA. Seems simple enough, but who exactly are they stopped by? Well if you guessed a couple of lunatics that are played to absolute perfection in being the epitome of terrorist fearing wackos, you win a prize. So after an extremely long, drawn out process of taking them in (in other words, abducting), the group is taken into custody where they are tortured into admitting that they are enemies of the United States. Granted one of them was of foreign decent, so I guess he MUST be a terrorist. This is the premise of the whole movie. The entire movie is secluded to where they are held captive, which is basically outside in animal cages so can't say much for scenery unless you are a big fan of forests. A part of me was drawn into this plot, though after seeing just how some people will stereotype people in everyday life and frightens me to think just how realistic this actually could be. Since it never goes over the top, it really just keeps you at a numbing, "what if" type feeling as you watch the psychological torture they are put through. I can't really say the acting aside from Michael Mando who plays Jalii, the aforementioned "brown" guy, is all that good. Mando does deserve credit though for making a few scenes very believable. They do toss in a sub plot of one the kids parents hiring a PI to find them after they have gone missing, but it is completely underdeveloped and could've been removed completely with no impact to the film. In the end, I overall was disappointed, as it had the tools and actors to make it work, it just dropped the ball in tension creating situations or just a natural feeling of caring at all. If you do see it, you will probably understand why one review will say "total garbage" while the next will say "loved it" I somehow stayed in between. It may be classified as horror, but it is more thriller than anything. 4.7/10 IMDb 5.0

vengeance20 I have to say that the DVD cover was very misleading! How it looked like a good film & turned out to be a massive fail in the end. I mean don't get me wrong, the film was good just like any other but it just didn't make any sense in the end! ***CONTAINS SPOILERS*** Like all you see is the investigator getting killed by this untrained psycho who accuses these innocent people for nothing & thinks that he can justify eye for an eye & that it is OK & forgets what decade he is in! While these innocent people are locked up in a metal container & you see his friend go inside & then BAM! End of film! It just didn't make any sense at all! I mean there's loads of unanswered questions such as follows:What did they do wrong? As far as the audience is concerned they were innocent people & those officers weren't real/trained officers, corrupt officers if you will! Thinking they can take the law into their owns hands without any regulations or rules! They had no evidence to suggest they did wrong! Not to mention the outrages things they were doing to them! It doesn't state once in the film what they did wrong, nothing added up!Did these guys get caught? I mean I really wanted those pieces of degeneracy to get some hard justice done to them for what they did which made me mad!Did the police ever find them? The detective that got killed would have been reported missing & the police would have found out who was behind the whole thing eventually which I would have wanted to see!! Acting as though they never saw a 4x4 when there were only 2 roads within that area were they would have seen the 4x4 car!Did they survive? Makes me wonder if they did survive & if they ever escaped in one piece! I would have liked it if they managed to escape & run away from the forest & get to safety as well as putting those bad people to justice! Overall it was OK but just had a VERY crappy ending! Really sucked! 2/10

kosmasp The suspense level of the movie is really high. On the other hand I can see why people wouldn't really rate the movie high. It is a tough sell. It's also something that is very close to Americans (and might offend quite a few). Of course this is not representative and while it is only a movie it does give a view of too much anxiety and fear and what that might lead to.It is shot on a low budget, but Karim Hussain, who also has worked as a director, has a good eye and his camera work is without fault. The acting while driven by high emotions never fails. And although you may say, that the movie does not really evolve into something bigger (there is not a big bang or anything else), it still may give you reasons to think ...