It's like watching "The Hunger Games" while being water-boarded

Rating: 1/10 (29 April 2014)

Goodness gravy gracious, I don't even know where to begin berating this train wreck of a film. I suppose I'll begin by criticizing the fact that the characters had little to no development whatsoever. I mean, good lord, characters that were hastily introduced during the first few minutes of the film and scarcely mentioned amid the film were hurriedly brought back with the intention of implementing those typical Hollywood cliché "PLEASE DON'T DIE ON ME, PLEASE!" scenes. I'm not insinuating that there is anything awry about designing characters to simply exist and complete the fictitious paradigm, but rather that the writers should be privy of the fact that the audience could care less if they die later on. The acting was also astoundingly mediocre. Even during the resolution of the film's primary conflict, you can discern an incredibly cringe inducing, spurious inflection in the antagonist's voice as she frustratedly reacts to her defeat with irritable overused phrases such as "NO, WHY YOU." This film also resorts to "shocking" or "plot twist" scenes roughly every five minutes. I've no antipathy for those personally, though, after the first 20 minutes of consistent "OH NO" moments, the audience becomes far too exhausted to care anymore.
I direly wish these were all the caveats I had noticed while viewing this film, but, unfortunately, I could continue raving for an additional 5 unnecessarily long paragraphs if I direly wanted to. Alternatively, I'll conclude this review by sufficing to say that I would recommend this film to no one under any circumstances ever. It's nothing more than a try hard, egregious attempt at creating an edge-of-your-seat experience for the audience and is far more probable to leave them anticipating those enrapturing strings of text we call the credits.