Not well thought out!!!!

Rating: 5/10 (29 September 2013)

I was excited about this film for it's originality, something truly lacking in Hollywood right now. Yet the film left me with mix feelings. The premises is that you have one night a year to give into your primal instincts and commit any crime without any persecution of any kind. Yet this film makes the ruling out as if everyone just wants to kill someone. Now maybe I missed something but I don't feel murder would be the leading crime if such an idea was ever brought to reality. Truth is thievery and rape would be the leading committed crime. And what about pedophiles, they just get one night to do what they wish without any repercussions. I guess with this concept it was easier to focuses on murder and not the more troubling crimes. Truth is murder is more common during an act of passion or for some other stupid reason. Holding out to one day a year to commit such an act is in no way feasible. The story it self is okay, not real scary and filled with moderately likable lead characters. The girl who played Zoe kept making me think of a younger Eliza Dushku. Truth is this story has so many holes it puts it in high competition for Looper for the poorest thought out script. Truth is it's just another way to make ethnic cleansing, on the poor and feeble. Yet the poor and feeble would be higher up the food chain for the crimes seeing how they would go to greater lengths from desperation to get what the wealthy and beautiful people have. hence why rape and thievery would be the top committed crimes. So a sequel is in the work and my hopes is that you have an avenging angel who kills those who try and harm the less fortunate. Yet I doubt it.