Experiment (2005)

That was an excellent one.

Fantastic!

Dreadfully Boring

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

One of the truly bad science fiction movies of the decade. First the actors - John Hopkins does a decent job with the material he's given, but Georgina French? I've never seen her before, but she needs to find some other line of work. She is rigid, totally unconvincing, and at times inappropriately comical. This, while playing the role of a pseudo-zombie (now how hard can that be?). Even her topless scene is unappetizing. The plot - there are holes here big enough to accommodate the Titanic before the sinking. Science fiction is one thing, nonsense another. Don't producers review the story before proceeding with production? Is there no one with common sense on the production team? My only question when the credits started to roll: What was the point anyway? And to think someone out there gave this 95 minute collection of nonsense 10 stars? Who are you: the director, producer or one of the sorry screenwriters or actors? Anyone else notice the 8-10 star reviews are all dated march 29!

Having watched the film, and in respect to most users' comments I will try and be as easy on it as possible. The idea around which the movie's filmed, is interesting. Yet not overly original. Manchurian candidate was more or less of the same idea, with some better acting to it I might add. Nonetheless, it's always an interesting idea. I did feel a slight bonding to the characters, but not overly so. Yet for a movie where the characters hardly take the time to speak to one another other than grunt, that is an achievement. And has a lot to do with their gestures, and facial expressions. Solid 'silent' acting by the two stars, the villains of the film were kind of 'fakish' to my eyes. But the married couple seemed bond well together after a rusty start. However, the 'scary' part I must disagree with. I wasn't frightened during any of the film's moments. And I may be a hardcore thriller/horror movie fan, but I do remain jumpy or frightened if something is there to actually frighten me. This movie was more so like a...film in which you knew there'd be a twist in the plot at the movie's end, and just waited to see if your guess was right. Unfortunately for me, and the friend who watched it with me, we both were more or less right over both the twist and its nature. Not recommended for watching, unless you really want to kill an hour or two watching a film. On the bright side. It's not really that bad, it's just overly mediocre. There's many better films out there. And twice as many worse.

A reasonably good start that obscures a really stupid and lame plot, as soon as it starts explaining it you think "can't be serious, can't be SOOOOO absurd!" The story does not stand up a child's mind, the acting is horrendous, the dialog almost non existent, the localization really cheap... the only achievement is to show Prague as a really ugly city, something not so easy.Really, paying to see this crap seems to be a really nasty way to lose money.For me, the only possible explanation for all that positive comments is that the people involved in the making of the movie are trying to improve its ratings. Incredible.

I saw the promo DVD of this movie - it's not actually had any kind of showing outside of the festival circuit that I'm aware of. It's a pretty impressive outing - building up a strong atmosphere with intense performances that convey the dread of waking up as an amnesiac in a strange foreign city.The story features a family torn apart and transplanted to Prague, pawns in a shadowy mind control experiment. The mechanics of this process and the assassination plot that lies behind it, become subsidiary to the trials of the two leads to piece together their shattering experience. Can love overcome the naked exercise of power? One thing that the script does really well is to continually build up hope that it might...(all pretty Kafka-esquire really - must be a Prague thing).