Paintball (2009)

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

This exciting film contains stunning fights scenes and chases that illuminate the full-blown struggles with a plethora of engaging set pieces on the combats in which the action runs here and there . Exciting manhunt set against spectacular scenery in which a bunch of young urban workaholics sign up for a weekend of paintballing to have some adventure and to the adrenaline begins to flow . The team (Brendan Mackey , Jennifer Matter , Patrick Regis , Neil Maskell , Iaione Perez , Claudia Bassols) is split into two groups , each player is equipped with supplies to last the weekend , a paintball weapon , paint bullets and maps . The winners will be the team that wipes out their opponents and completes the circuit . As the snipers pin them down in a hail of paint . But the adrenaline-filled entertainment soon turns into a merciless chase , in which they become the prey and the hunter shoots live ammunition not paint . It is no longer a game ; but then commands the strongest law , and when rules have changed it turns into a lethal pursuit . Later on , the battle-hardened participants take on each other , including deadly traps , being ambushed , and killed one by one . Hunted down like prey in a deadly game , the teams face a desperate struggle for survival . There's nothing like a brush with death to make you feel alive . Bloody and violently flick with overwhelming fights and nice production values set in deep forest , ravines , caves and obstacle-ridden trekking paths . It is reasonably well paced and turns out to be a long roller-coaster pursuit and relentless hunt . It is packed with noisy action , gritty adventure , thrills , violent shootouts and spectacular outdoors . The strong confrontation in which only rules the law of the jungle , is set against strong environment , mountains and hazardous trails . The movie has great action sequences well staged with stylish and vitality , thrills , and results to be entertaining but repetitive . Cameraman photographs a stirring atmosphere by means of shaky camera over shoulder and videotape . Several action scenes are outstanding with spectacular action images and thrilling fights . It also results to be surprisingly gory , including , stabbing , slitting , writhing in agony , along with a handful of extremely violent and breathtakingly gory scenes . It's a thunder stuff with an unknown cast , they spend most of it running through the forests , hills , mountains , being tracked , chased and escaped . Unfortunately, on small house screens much of the splendor will be lost , to be seen on big screen. Colorful cinematography by Juán Azpiroz , reflecting splendidly impressive landscapes filmed in mountains of Castellterçol , Marganell , Collbató , Aiguamúrcia, Barcelona, Arnes , Tarragona, Catalonia , where the filmmaker also shot ¨El Bruc¨ . Furthermore , it displays an atmospheric and thrilling musical score by Xavier Capellas . The flick was finely produced by the chairman of Filmax Productions , Julio Fernandez along with his brother Carlos Fernandez as executive producer , they're two successful producers and experts on terror genre , producing a lot of hits , such as ¨The machinist¨, ¨Rec ¨1¨, 2¨ and ¨3¨ , ¨Fragiles¨, ¨Darkness¨, ¨El perfume¨ , ¨The nun¨ . The motion picture was professionally directed by Daniel Benmayor , though has some flaws and gaps . He is a good professional , a nice filmmaker who has directed a few films as ¨Bruc , El Desafío¨ (2010) and has been hired by Hollywood , where he has realized ¨Tracers¨ with Taylor Lautner and Marie Avgeropoulos . This ¨¨Paintball¨ is rated 5.5/10 , passable .

When I sat down with my six kids aged between 3-12 I had no idea what to expect. I certainly was not expecting it to be such a adrenaline fuelled, heart stopping masterpiece. I am not ashamed that I shed a tear, as did the rest of my family, at the end of this movie. No one can stay dry eyed throughout this movie. This film depicts a chilling yet oh so real account of the dangers of paint balling and I can guarantee you that now my eyes have been opened to this nightmarish past-time neither me nor my children will be going paint balling in the near future. There is no doubt about it that this is the best film ever to come from the awe inspiring mind of visionary director Daniel Benmayor and I can tell you now there is some stiff competition. If you want a film which will make you feel sad, scared, happy, confused, horny, overwhelmed, jealous and surprised then Paintball is most definitely the film for you. Please watch this film and spread the message that this film conveys. Thank you for taking time to read my review. From our most humble and obedient servant Michael J White

Not much of a plot, or a film really. Gang of people respond to an advert to do paint balling, and guess what? They start getting killed one by one by an albino who has cheap Predator vision, because the makers cannot afford proper special effects.All along though, its discovered that the makers have seen Hostel, and people are paying to see Albino Predator kill the paintball crew......First off, this film is bad.It has no narrative, no real storey, and not one single likable character. Its a car crash from beginning to end.When a film becomes a chore to get through it, you know something is wrong. Characters shout at the top of their voices for people, and end up fighting one another.And they are all stereotypical. We have the Jock like wannabe leader, the hard as nails Ripley wannabe, the calm one, and the fat one who no one likes, spoiling it for everyone.It's cheaply made, looks terrible, and I feel awful for wasting my life watching this.Just writing this review is getting me down.Awful, in every sense of the word...

A group of city dwellers go on an adventure weekend and encounter more than paint bullets. This is a low budget effort and it shows. The acting is amateur and consists mostly of shouting and the plot unfortunately is a cliché ridden mess. The camera-work is appalling as a lot of the time the action is filmed too far away. The premise is reasonable but it just doesn't work as there is absolutely no characterisation at all and therefore very little suspense is built up. It really is just people running around a forest and being picked off one by one. This can only work if you at least have some inkling of who is being picked off but the outfits the cast wear and the poor quality camera-work mean it could be any of them. Even the deaths are pretty lame.To be fair once there is one survivor left there is a brief spell towards the end that the film briefly sparks into life and a modicum of suspense is generated. This isn't enough to save the film but does stop it being a total waste of time.Overall this is a very poor film and can't be recommended unless of course you like people shouting loudly in which case you'll be in heaven with this.