Directed by:
Toby MeakinsScreenplay:
Simon AllenCinematography:
Catherine DerryCast:
Iola Evans, Asa Butterfield, Eddie Marsan, Kate Fleetwood, Robert Englund, Ryan Gage, Angela Griffin, Caroline Loncq, Ioanna Kimbook, Pete MacHale (more)VOD (1)
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Tempted by a chance to win unclaimed prize money, two friends reboot a mysterious 1980s video game and step into a surreal world of next-level terror. (Netflix)
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A forgotten computer game from the 1980s is killing people because it's cursed. What will players be willing to pay to win? Choose or Die is exactly as stupid a movie as its plot sounds. An underfunded horror film without a shred of wit, but most importantly without a single truly thrilling scene. It attempts to rip off genre classics, but does so with utter clumsiness and zero input from its own inventiveness. There is no reason to watch it.
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The horror flop of the year so far. The film raised expectations that it was another variation on Saw and Jumanji, which is a rewarding horror theme that rarely disappoints, but I lost interest somewhere around the 15 minute mark. Netflix is about 50/50 with horror movies so far, but this is one is bad in perhaps every way. On the one hand, I'm glad that even bad movies are coming out, at least people will appreciate more horror movies like The Sadness, X and Eight for Silver, which are undoubtedly this year's hits. Choose or Die is a similar teen offshoot to that horror movie an app (I forget the name) where nothing really works properly, but a certain group of people will satisfied with it and will happily spread it further. The movie focuses a lot on just the two main characters, who aren't very interesting, and the game itself is downright meh and laughable. The quests and the actual nature of the game doesn't make much sense and in a lot of ways it feels unfinished and rushed. The gore is more or less absent, there are about three gory scenes, coincidentally very similar (blood coming out of a mouth), this can only really please the least discerning or those new to the genre today. There is no atmosphere or tension, the jump-scares are very predictable and ineffective. It doesn't build up anywhere and when the horror aspect doesn't work, it's not even funny let alone entertaining, in short a bad in every way. As background noise for cooking or cleaning it probably scores, but for an evening with a partner or alone no chance. Story 2/5. Action 1/5, Humor 1/5, Violence 1/5, Fun 2/5 Music 2/5, Visuals 2/5, Atmosphere 2/5, Suspense 2/5, Emotion 1/5, Actors 2/5. 2/10.
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A dull piece of shit without invention and with visuals that would have been better in the 1980s. But it's worth sticking it out to the end – cinema may not have seen such a ridiculous villain vs hero duel. Netflix garbage in all its glory.
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One of the most anticipated horror films turned into the greatest ordeal - but not the horror ordeal we all expected, but the ordeal of the viewer who was forced to watch 84 minutes of this travesty that the filmmakers refer to as a "movie". Asa Butterfield is a good actor, but he's completely out of his depth here, and even his name can't save this tragedy. The plot makes no sense, it has nothing to do with Saw, there is no atmosphere to speak of, the "gore" (if you can call it that) is uninteresting and boring and the overall outcome of the film is laughable. Tragic in every way and 10 minutes later I don't even know I've seen it.
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Wow, this was a serious waste of time. The premise of a killer computer game initially intrigued me — I figured it could at least be funny. But nope, it wasn't even that. What a disappointment.
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