FYI for two groups of people

Rating: 10/10 (11 January 2006)

This is the first time I have ever written a comment. I just couldn't help myself. Every once in awhile I'll browse through the comments to get the reasons why people liked the film or even why they didn't. I usually only do this to find out why the rating of a good film was so low. If you are one of those people then YOU MUST READ my comments below.
I wanted to start off by agreeing with the great things that have been written about this movie. There is no need to rewrite what some people have already written. They did a wonderful job describing a great film. So, if you are looking for reasons why you should see this film, then read another comment that gave it 10 stars because this comment is about the ignorant negativity toward the film.
I found out why the rating was not as high as it deserves to be. So I just want to warn the people, who are wondering if it's worth seeing, about the negative comments made toward this film. I've read quite a few of them and their reasoning doesn't really make much sense.
Some of them talk about how the film isn't realistic. Realistic!? Since when has any horror movie ever done in the history of Hollywood ever been realistic? I mean come on, there's always something in every movie that isn't realistic. Even some of the true stories are changed to make the movie more of a blockbuster.
Others say that the movie should not be categorized as a horror film because it's not scary enough. If it was supposed to be the type of scariness where we scream around every corner it would be categorized as a thriller/horror not simply a horror. It is simply supposed to be a hard-to-watch and psychologically-scary movie due to the gore. The scariest part about this film is that I would not be surprised if this (the plot of the film) was really going on somewhere in the world. Now that's scary.
They also think we don't know enough about the background of the characters for it to be fulfilling. Why does ANYONE need to know how some people could be so evil. Would it make it better to know that they were abused as children? No. It's suffice to say that there are some sick people in this world and knowing how they are like that is not going to change it. Also, why do you need to know a lot about where a person came from to have sympathy for them. I don't care who you are or what you did, NO human being truly deserves to be tortured like the way they are in this film. And if you can't naturally have sympathy for someone being tortured like that, then you are just as evil as the men doing it in my opinion.
The rest of the people who gave this film a bad review had no reasons why. They simply said that it was "horrible." There's no logic to their opinion, so how am I able to listen to them when they say it's not worth going to see. I think these people just go around to every movie website and put a bad review in because they were getting too bored downloading pornography. Please just stick to pornography because some of us DO actually take films seriously (some of us even get paid to). There's no need to trash a film you didn't even see.
SO, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't pay attention to the low rating this movie received because if you read what I wrote above and/or actually saw this incredible film you would agree with me when I say it is definitely worth seeing.