Deadbox (2009)

- written November 19th, 2010

Summary: A five-person team of paint ball players decide to go environmental on their way to a tournament. Unfortunately, the environment they choose turns out to be an abandoned prison, whose sole inhabitant is a paranoid schizophrenic vet who mistakes them for a team of assassins. Now the game is for real.           Overall: The first thing that folks who find a copy of this movie will be aware of, it’s basically a 105 minutes of one continual shot. Well, almost. You can tell there are transitions between scenes but for the most part…it’s continuous. And although that’s very challenging and yet interesting…the fact that it runs 1 hr 45 minutes means it’s really, really long!!!! I think this film works at maybe 70-85 minutes but it just goes on and on and on… It’s also very “Blair Witch”-y in the camera movement and such so a lot of times you’re struggling to understand what you’re looking at. I liked the concept, really I did but the execution just didn’t work me. 1 hr and 45 minutes of paintball and folks walking and walking and staring and screaming and more standing and more walking.           Comparison: 10 Things I hate about You meets Uncle Sam

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