Can I have that 2-1/2 hours of my life back, please?

Rating: 1/10 (12 May 2014)

Please, if you're reading this as you consider seeing this awful excuse for entertainment, run away! DON'T DO IT! My only consolation was that I saw it on HBO rather than having wasted $10+ at the theater. Pointless, virtually plot-free, full of idiotic red herrings, derivative, BEYOND gratuitously violent - need I go on? I will go on - I created an IMDb account just so I could warn people away from this atrocious mess. I kept mentally comparing this movie to "7even," which in spite of the violence had an actual plot, made sense, and lent us some insight into the characters' psyches and motivations. The red herrings in "7even" were woven into the movie and not just thrown in for - what? - effect? Distraction? Shock value? I think they were for distraction - to distract us from the fact that "Prisoners" just blows.