I never...

Rating: 1/10 (12 July 2006)

...saw such a boring thing in my entire life. Never. I have seen hundreds of movies in my life and for the very first time, I actually wanted to sit up and leave. Only the friend I was with stopped me from doing so and in the end he hoped we had done it after all too.
I haven't played the game, but can actually believe that it might work out just fine. But as a movie, the game's plot line just simply doesn't work. When the DIY factor of a game is taken away, all you have is a group of people you really don't care about running around, performing tasks that are, when watched on a big screen, simple and pointless.
Instead of rising to a higher level, using the themes for something, this movie is simply a pre-solved run-through of a computer game. Task: a monster appears. Solution: shoot it, continue. Task: a hole on the floor. Solution: cross the hole balancing on the structures poking out of the hole. Task: monsters on the corridor. Solution: turn of your lantern and walk slowly past them. And so on. And so on. And so on. And soh...