Basement (2010)

Waste of time

A Disappointing Continuation

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I'm no intelligent film student but I need to say that this is the worst film i've ever seen. Really bad acting, no real plot or character back story, a set reused over and over, cheap badly done costume design and special effects. Dyer on the cover should have been a clue as to how bad it was, a film student who failed their final year would be livid to see something so terrible released, especially on blue ray.Sorry for no more detail but I really can't think of anything worth writing on this, so to summarise- avoid this film, even if found in the bargain DVD section for 10p second hand- There IS better things you can do with your time than this total waste.

If ZERO had been an option on the voting scale I'd have most certainly selected it. As it happens, ONE was the lowest available."Basement" has one merit and that's that it made me sign up for IMDb so that I could share with the world what an abysmal waste of time and money this film is.What is unbelievable is the idea that someone, somewhere, thought that this thing could be viable for production and that nobody along the way was honest enough to tell the director, the producers or whoever that perhaps jacking it in would have been more dignified.There's no danger of a spoiler because this film is about nothing. In theory the premises are interesting, not miles away from The Hole. A group of people are lost in the woods and end up in a dark and creepy basement. "Wow" you'd think, "Great!". No it isn't. This is where it all ends. The rest is some sort of tedious, repetitive, shallow, unengaging and inconsequential bilge. It goes nowhere. It says nothing. It's not even dumb. I guess it's the closest a film ever got to representing the concept of nothingness which, in a way, is actually an achievement.Oh, and by the way, the acting is the worst ever. By far. Times ten."Basement" is like a Year-9 project carried out by a group of kids messing about with some recording equipment. Except worse.

Horrific. I usually enjoy films that are so bad they are funny - or entertaining on some level, but this was truly awful to the point that I felt angry with myself for watching it to the end. I won't even go into an overview of the plot, there isn't one.It makes no sense from start to finish with the worst script ever to be delivered. Harry Enfield and his mockney characters have a lot to answer for - although I'm certain he would have performed 100 times better than these 'actors'. If you are turned on by spending just over an hour watching boring people in a boring location saying pointless and idiotic things to each other for no reason whatsoever then I suggest that you save yourself a fiver and watch Big Brother. This is, without a doubt the worst film I have ever seen. And what the hell is DCI Burnside out of the bill Talking about at the start? Do yourself a favour and spend the fiver on a slightly better takeaway than you had planned.

* This does contains Spoilers, although I'm not sure it matters as it still doesn't make sense even after having watched Basement.I love Syfy channel films, I love B-Movies whereby horror films turn into comedy and special effects could be created on Blue Peter. I can enjoy them, what I didn't enjoy was spending £4.99 to watch Basement and come out of the film having not known what I just watched.The acting wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but taking into consideration not even the best actors could have worked with such an awful script I won't let this influence the rest of my review.We are told virtually nothing of the characters, I came to the conclusion they are University students who attend anti-war protests. That's all well and good, but that's it. I didn't care about any of them, and the more or less non-existent character development only lead me to dislike them.Films like this are guaranteed to contact the odd cliché, not Basement; their logic and decisions they make throughout the course of the film is unreal that I give it credit for being unique.Gary who we know a little more about in that he works for an unknown Company and has to make the 'toughest decision he'll ever have to make'. Little of what he does makes any sense, and although his role does become a little clearer as the film progresses, this only added to my confusion as his motives are entirely unknown. After the initial 15 minutes he served no purpose, although this is an improvement over the others who served no purpose at all.The ending of the film was quite fitting to be honest, I waited for something to click and explain everything but the credits started rolling before. Maybe I'm being overly critical, there is a story to be found in there even if it doesn't make sense and the first 10 minutes weren't too bad.It would be unfair to say this is the worst film I've seen, but I would go as far as saying it's the most pointless.Nothing deserves a 0/10, but this comes close.