Please Stop.

Rating: 2/10 (25 November 2014)

I started off watching it thinking it was going to be like The Cube crossed with Hunger Games. Not bad I thought, not original but certainly entertaining.
The acting wasn't bad, nothing that will have the academy deciding on golden phallus's next year but nothing that broke me from the submersion of the movie either. I guess that's as much as I could ask for in this sort of movie.
The writing had it's faults but the overall premise I thought covered up many of the downfalls there. The antagonist needed development instead of irrationally deciding to screw with the protagonist on a constant basis. Hell, just make Ben his best friend or lover and it's done, he has all the irrationality needed now to pull any stupid crap he likes.
Now where it fell down and crashed so horribly was the ending. I understand it's a series of novels and knew that the plan was not to end the movie here, but how many movies do we need that give us a small resolution and major questions left unresolved? I feel that's a massive "screw you" to the audience.
Hello and welcome to our franchise, would you like to buy your tickets now for the actual story which will come in future releases.
I am sick of seeing this, has Hollywood fallen so far, being governed by the next major cash cow, that all they see now are how to sell the next project within the current project?
This formula needs stamping out and the only way people will see the quality of these projects increased is to put their wallet away when the next "installment" comes out. However, like sheep, people will keep on flocking to the cinemas, putting up with mediocre quality entertainment and convince themselves they have just seen a masterpiece.
Honestly, how many people rated this as 10/10? There are maybe a half dozen movies that deserve that and I'd be pressed to find one of them released this millennium.