Paintball

Plot synopsis:
A truck rumbles down a potholed track. In the back sit a group of passengers, their eyes blindfolded. They don't know each other, but they have a lot in common: they're young, urban workaholics, with an appetite for extreme experiences. They've signed up for a weekend of adventure. As they head out into the unknown, they hear the others breathing in the darkness, steadying their pulses in silence as the adrenaline begins to flow The blindfolds come off to reveal in a dense forest. Each player is equipped with supplies to last the weekend, a powerful paintball gun, ammunition, maps and instructions. They have to complete an adventure trail that takes in ravines, caves and obstacle-ridden trekking paths. The group is split into two teams. The winners will be the team that wipes out their opponents and completes the circuit. They wanted adventure? They got it. Deep in the woods, one group is ambushed. Invisible snipers pin them down in a hail of paint then one of their number collapses, writhing in agony. Red blood mixes with the paint. Confusion reigns. Who is shooting at them? In the silence, they stare round at each other, and into the forest, looking for a traitor or some kind of explanation. The rules of the game have changed. The only law is the law of the jungle, and nobody trusts anybody else. Hidden among the trees, camouflaged by leaves and branches, there are deadly traps. Hunted down like prey in a lethal game, the teams face a desperate struggle for survival. There's nothing like a brush with death to make you feel alive.

Tags: murder, sadist

Review:
STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning The premise behind this abysmal action thriller has a group of people going for a good old bit of paint ball, only to find themselves really fighting to stay alive as a barrage of real bullets are fired at them.
It's like a bunch of 8th graders wrote a story in a half hour and never even bothered even coming for a reason why any character in the movie acts the way they do or any situation in the movie would be plausible.
I can see who a little misdirection can help a movie, but after repeatedly seeing useless visuals, you start to get the feeling that they were just letting the camera roll with hopes of making it work in the editing room.
The women (and only them) scream, gasp and sob a lot – not that unreasonable when nasty stuff starts up, but I suspect plenty of men would do the same in the unlikely event that real life could ever be remotely like this.This movie is a perfect 1.
I don't exactly know anymore why I thought that "Paintball" could easily have been a cool and exciting survival/slasher movie when I rented it Maybe because I went paintballing with a group of friends recently and you immediately link this game to adrenalin-rushing action and sportive kicks?
Entertainment is also exactly what I wanted to get out of "Paintball", but apparently that was too much to ask for  It's truly a dire effort, with an utterly dumb and implausible plot, and sadly also severely lacking gore, brutality and fast-paced suspense/excitement.
Director Daniel Benmayor also thought it would be a good idea to film all the killings from POV angle and through a sort of unclear brown camera filter.
This exciting film contains stunning fights scenes and chases that illuminate the full-blown struggles with a plethora of engaging set pieces on the combats in which the action runs here and there .
The team (Brendan Mackey , Jennifer Matter , Patrick Regis , Neil Maskell , Iaione Perez , Claudia Bassols) is split into two groups , each player is equipped with supplies to last the weekend , a paintball weapon , paint bullets and maps .
However, they come to realize that the game is more deadly than they thought as they find out that the enemies are using actual guns instead of paintball guns to hunt and kill them.Firstly, my biggest problem with this movie is how badly written the characters are.
In this case, however, I was actually looking forward for the characters to die because the movie was so bad, I was eager for it to end.
Take these 3 words and tweet it to everyone who has ever thought of directing a horror movie.Also, most of the characters are idiots.
The movie tried to have him go insane but that was a very unrealistic and lazy way to kill off one of the characters.
It is also bad cinematography in my opinion.Like most low-budget, modern horror movies, the acting is garbage.
The reason this is so common is because many good actors know better than to star in modern horror movies because they know that they will ruin their careers by doing so.
The movie doesn't provide enough clues in order for me to be able to speculate a theory about what I think the origin of the area they were in is.The only reason this doesn't get a 1/10 is that the premise is actually pretty good and creative for once.
Unfortunately, the movie ruins any minimal hopes I had for it after 15 minutes.In conclusion, if you don't mind the style over substance, idiotic characters, and unoriginal and poorly-executed action sequences and if you just like watching senseless gun-battles then this movie is for you.
The title gives away a little bit and of course you can imagine, that this won't be a regular Paintball game, that you will watch in this movie.There are quite a few neat scenes, but especially one gimmick (where the camera uses a filter and therefor the picture you're seeing is "different") that it uses, wears off pretty quickly.
Some whiny and annoying card-board characters are dropped off in the field where the games with the opposing team will be held.After some paintball sessions an unknown hunter begins to kill them using real ammo."Paintball" is a highly derivative survival flick which reminded me "The Zero Boys" or "Masterblaster"(both flicks from 80's).The characters are annoying and not developed,the plot is predictable and there is plenty of clichés.The cinematography is shaky and the killings shot via grey night vision quickly become irritating.If you want a good survival flick check out "Rituals","Deliverance" or "Hunter's Blood".Unfortunately "Paintball" is one to avoid.5 out of 10..
I'm still waiting for the day that I'll break my duck and participate in a paintball game, especially if going back for in-camp training every year isn't enough that I'll want to wield a rifle with paint ammunition, and go around fragging peers or strangers in the opposite team.
Best played with a big group of friends (or against people you dislike), this sport is picking up momentum, and specialized shops selling paintball gear have been sprouting up, giving indication of its popularity.If only the cost of the game would go down, or if the terrain could be a little more challenging, like this one in the film Paintball, set in a fictional Redball Woods, touted as Europe's largest renegade paintball field, which would give infantry junkies a run for their money in terrain topology, with plenty of space for section movement and the application of section movement in order to organize and take out the enemy.
But that's a dream playground, and as its advertisement touts, you have the power to choose whether to live or die.The horror here, besides the fact that it's a film that failed to exploit its potential and chances, is of course for someone to have a weird sense of humour, and decided to substitute their paint ammunition, for real rounds meant to kill.
Then there's this mysterious, savage player who doesn't seem to play for either side, from whom we adopt the POV from, and behind his thermal mask we see the bloody atrocities that he gets himself into when dispatching innocent players.The story is pretty much standard, introducing us to the group of strangers who have signed up to participate in the game, and have to work together with great difficulty when they know that they're in for deep, deep trouble.
Their mission is to go from checkpoint to checkpoint and pick up stuff that they could use, such as bullet proof vests and a real machete, together with constant bickering as to who gets to use what.You can't help but to apply horror film sensibilities in wondering which caricature gets to be killed how, and in what order.
The other drawback is of course the story by Mario Schoendorff being really lacklustre, with director Daniel Benmayor not being able to bring out any sense of tension or thrills, having everything played out in a rather flat manner, despite the slight revelation toward the end which was a little to late to make any impact, coming across more like a sick joke played by Redball Woods.The only redeeming grace that stood out from the bad acting, caricatures and weak story, is the occasional flashes of brilliance in its initial long tracking shot of pandemonium.
Strictly for paintball fans, but even then you'd rather prefer to be playing the game, than to watch a horrible horror film about it..
PAINTBALL is another attempt at survival horror which reminds one a little of the likes of WILDERNESS although this is far, far worse.
Think of Eli Roth's "Hostel" meets Nico Mastorakis' "The Zero Boys" and you have the low-budget horror action hybrid "Paintball".
What the story sets up should have been a lot better than what actually eventuated, as in the end it was a chaotic muddle of frenetically noisy action and mind-numbing characters running around remote woodlands letting their instinctive and primal urges kick in.
The story follows that of eight adrenaline junkies taking part in a game of paintball in a forest, but when one of them ends up being killed by a live round.
ANd while that is positive, I will say that the movie wasn't particularly extraordinary though.The story is about a group of people who go to a remote forest to compete in a game of paintball.
But when one of the contestants is shot dead by a live ammunition round, the game changes dramatically, and it becomes an actual game of life and death."Paintball" was shot mostly with a hand-held camera, to give the audience the impression of being on the battlefield in the forest.
Granted it was just $2, but still I want a properly filmed movie to watch.It should be said that the characters were generic and totally devoid of any characteristics and personalities.
You know what will happen and there are absolutely no surprises along the way.If you have an hour and a half to waste, and got absolutely nothing better to watch, give "Paintball" a go for a no-brainer movie.
The idea of a killer in a paintball tournament should've been a lot of fun without knowing who to trust or if the game should be called off which is where this one should've worked, but instead the concept of the organization being behind it all given to us here is just quite lame as for what they're after or the purpose of this one to set off the problems in here.
There's some really enjoyable parts to this one which makes for an occasionally entertaining time, starting with the stalking at the end guided along by the helpful attendant which comes off a lot more tense and chilling here than expected during the forest segment with the preceding events fueling the paranoia, engaging in plenty of rather fun escape sequences and getting into the compound to add in the heat-vision tactics to great effect for once as the brawling is quite more active than expected and really putting out the creepiness of the corporation is fantastic as it brings about the great scene.
Still, though, this really doesn't come close to matching the even-more impressive beginning as it really delivers a lot of really good paint- ball shoot-'em-up action to get things going as this gets right in the heat of the battle and their tactics come off incredibly well that showcases this all to great effect.
Another problem is character development; there is none, so it's difficult to care what happens to any of these people you see being followed around by the shaky cameras.** Paintball (4/24/09) Daniel Benmayor ~ Brendan Mackey, Jennifer Matter, Patrick Regis, Iaione Perez.
Excellent direction, imaginative writing, and truly superb acting by a cast of relative unknowns make for one of the best films of this type to be seen in quite some time.
You know – the words say something like "celebrating a century of entertainment" as clips of memorable scenes flash by.Well, like those highlight reels, much of the best of "Paintball" comes directly from other films.
And if you can recall those clips, you can splice together "Paintball's" plot.The film follows a familiar formula – cocky expert hunters become the hunted.In this case, a group of paint-ballers answers an ad to play in the ultimate game.
Instead of disappearing into the woods like good players, they panic and spend the rest of the movie making themselves easy targets by shouting and arguing – and walking along open roads and fields.It doesn't help matters when the women shed their camouflage duds.The group does press on because the mysterious goodie boxes offer survival aids like a bullet-proof vest.Teammates die along the way, but we don't care since the movie never gives anyone much of a back story and the constant screaming and bickering gets tiresome to the point it's almost a relief to have characters die so they'd finally shut up.That said, "Paintball" is not a bad movie.
The action sequences really pop like bursting paint ball pellets, and there are are plenty of other shoot'em ups with bigger budgets that are far worse.The movie's biggest weakness is that by relying so heavily on other films for material, "Paintball" constantly reminds us these is better work out there – and it's already been done – so why not watch "Predator," "Descent" or "Pitch Dark" on DVD instead?.
A voice across a walkie-talkie gives out instructions when motivated by her superiors to organize the game so that it entertains the clients.The use of a machete motivates different responses within the story (it impales a player accidentally when the one who uses it is just trying to protect herself, while another has the leader of the green team purposely impaling an orange team member multiple times in anger), how the thermal camera can be used against the hunter (in the main room of the company's building, where Anna finds the death certificate files, uses the glass to hide herself among those watching behind it), and the taking apart of a rifle to kill the hung-upside-down player are among the more memorable bits in the film.
Still, with characters as dumb and obnoxious as those in this film, folk who willingly allow themselves to be hooded, shackled and driven to an unknown destination by complete strangers, I say have at it, Mr Johnny Foreigner—by all means slaughter these irritating, whiny, gung-ho morons for sport—you'll be doing the human race a favour!The whole 'survival game for real' idea is hardly original (Nico Mastorakis did the same thing decades earlier with The Zero Boys, which was quickly followed by Masterblaster), but that doesn't mean it doesn't still have the potential to be hugely entertaining; sadly, Paintball blows it in almost every conceivable way, the cocky characters just begging for a bullet between the eyes only being the start of the problem.
In addition to making the viewer not give a damn whether anyone lives or dies, the film suffers from lousy acting, a lack of decent action, and dreadful direction from Daniel Benmayor, who opts for a horrible wobbly cam technique and the use of POV for the killer, neither of which work particularly well: the frantic camera-work makes it hard to follow the action while the potentially gory POV kills are seen through some sort of high-tech thermal imaging goggles that display everything in monochrome and negative, meaning that the death scenes are frustratingly short of the red stuff (blood looks like milk!).After much tedium, frantic running around the woods, and screaming, the final survivor (a woman, naturally) is inexplicably given assistance by the people controlling the hunt, and faces off against the killer in a derelict building where the script introduces a dumb 'deus ex machina'—a case inexplicably chained to a wall—that comes in very handy in defeating the enemy.
I mean the idea of a paintball game where real death is involved seemed like a good idea.
I came into the movie expecting a few laughs from stupid "horror" scenes.
Another good thing about the film is the acting.
the thing i didn't understand the most was the fact they were running around with there paintball guns like they would help them ..
i do like low budget horror but there still has to be something to it, other people have said it on the reviews but its like they just stole all the ideas from other films.just don't waste your time and skip this ..
If you have 90 minutes you wish to fill with poor acting, thermal cameras and general shouting from annoying characters I would highly recommend this film, if not I highly advise you stay away from this film.
The camera-work is appalling as a lot of the time the action is filmed too far away.
Paintball may just be the strangest movie i have seen in a long time.
Basically you get 8 paintball pros, suddenly one is shot with a real bullet, the group suddenly go into panic and rush round splitting up slowly and getting killed one by one...Firstly, the beginning of this movie gives no introduction and jumps you straight in their.
Usually these kind of movies are good, but no, we do not have a clue who these people are, or where there from.
Secondly, the deaths in this are hidden, which is actually quite a good technique, only shown through this hunters view, who many times in the film I actually thought would turn out to be Predator!
They start getting killed one by one by an albino who has cheap Predator vision, because the makers cannot afford proper special effects.All along though, its discovered that the makers have seen Hostel, and people are paying to see Albino Predator kill the paintball crew......First off, this film is bad.It has no narrative, no real storey, and not one single likable character.
Survival horrors, slashers, and other movies made to bring out fear and emotions like it are not really my thing.
but i do love paintball, so i watched this.I think that the ratings given this film are too low.
Of course most of the characters are whiny little wimps and have no idea what they're doing, but some of them are brand new to the sport, and don't even know what to expect from regular paintball.When David starts taking charge, it feels good to see that someone is not an idiot.
I STILL thought it was too much gore in some scenes, but as i said before, I'm do not usually like these movies.
Weren't the greatest characters ever but I think the filming was done pretty good.