If you have difficulty with watching suffering, avoid.

Rating: Null/10 (14 October 2004)

I don't want to make a big principled point about it, but I've got certain limits to the amount of violence (in the true sense) that I can endure in a movie, and this exceeded it.
I'm not saying this is a bad movie. For the twenty minutes I watched before I left I could see it had a certain style, and it was certainly strongly emotive. I'd say the acting wasn't good from the fellas in the room - reminded me very much of 'Cube' (which I did enjoy).
Violence. Die Hard, the Matrix, Terminator et al. are not violent, by my definition (they may well be by yours). Showing extreme suffering in lingering closeup, with all the emotions writ large, is true violence for me. Tim Roth in the second half of Reservoir Dogs. 'Sloth' in Seven. Chris Ecclestone's grim duty and descent in Shallow Grave. I find that seriously hard to watch. In those instances I managed because the hard scenes were infrequent. In this movie the first twenty minutes was at the top of that scale throughout, and I couldn't see any let-up, so I called it a night.
Of course, many or even most people may not agree, which is cool by me :)
But my simple recommendation would be that if scenes of personal suffering and sadism (if you'll excuse the dramatic term) played out for entertainment isn't your thing, I'd avoid this one.
P.S. In case you're wondering, I had a free ticket, and didn't know anything about it ;)