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I have not seen the original, but this one is very good. The acting is incredible for this type of film. And the ending is somewhat expected, but not entirely. Very good shock value film.
Richard Haneke's American remake of his 1997 German film of the same name is largely unchanged. The same threat of impending, inescapable doom looms heavy for the main characters ( admirably played by Naomi Watts who co-produced and Tim Roth ) who are a couple in tow with their young son to their Long Island summer home, when two polite interlopers ( a creepy evil Michael Pitt and his nimrod counterpart Brad Corbet ) descend upon their lives and beging a terrorizing ordeal of social / psycho games with them. Haneke's jar-you-in-the-gut revelation about violence upends on itself when the surmounting suspense is all for not as the end seems vaguely hopeless. Still there is much to be found for the not-so-faint-of-heart viewer who can revel in the performanes that are at once moving and courageous.
The film is a satire, tackling not only the suspense genre but the viewers themselves. The director challenges the audience to look within themselves and evaluate what they deem as entertainment. Michael Haneke expects most people to walk out or turn it off, and is rarely disappointed. Most suited to philosophers and people who are in touch with what it is contained within them that causes them to be excited by violence in films. An excellent use of the film medium.
Take my advice and do not waste your time. At least I borrowed it from the library and didn't actually spend money to see it. I really thought about just not returning it so that others may be spared!
This has to be one of the worst movies i have ever seen. And it is completely unfair to the characters in the movie. And the people watching it. Once in the middle of the movie, you think, yes finally they got what was coming to them. But it seemed to be, to good to be true. And at the end your just thinking, there has to be someway they get revenge, or something as been forshadowed. But no it leaves you the repition from the begining of the movie. And that you realize wow i wasted 2 hours of my life and 6.99 watching this movie. I could have spent that time with someone i loved. But this movie certainly was made by the directors to be funny games, more like twisted games if you ask me. These kinda of movies should never be allowed to watch or go inside the home of the buyer of this redicoulous movie. But the one thing you do get out of it is. "Well at least you can't see any other movies as bad as that." So this would have to be a -100000 out of ten. If you bought the movie GOD SPEED
