I want my time back.

Rating: 3/10 (14 January 2007)

Oh, please, viewer... Won't you please see me as a deep and creative filmmaker?
No. I won't. I watched the whole thing from beginning to end, and after the first 15 minutes, I found myself thinking, "self, there's a difference between a complex, interesting film, and a vague and desperate one." This movie is nothing more than an attempt to capitalize on a popular video game, and in the end, leaves so many threads hanging that even the director can't explain them. As a whole, it was nothing but a mashup of creepy images, monsters, vague myths, and incomplete backstory that's told in a short "film" presentation - a technique not even the most amateur writer would use. The viewer is never offered the chance to figure anything out. Instead, some sort of basic plot is directly explained, and everything else it unrelated filler.
This movie can NOT, and I mean NOT, stand on it's own. It's a half-inflated, failure of a concept.