JMH-3

Once again we have a movie where group of late teens gather to an abandoned house to play murder-game (called "Backstabbed"). There's also your usual serial killer loose in the neighborhood and the house in question has some vague history. So, this movie isn't going to break any new grounds. However, even though the format is too well-known, the direction is quite well done here. The suspense is kept at high level throughout the movie, unlike many similar movies that have dull moments. Some scenes even resemble the works of such masters of this genre like Mr Hitchcock.

So I give this 6/10 (or *** out of *****).

Oh well. Tour-de-force of special effects, some of which were good (although none were original), but surprisingly, some of which were embarrassingly bad (e.g. the helicopter chases and F-18 jets...). The plot is so thin that it shouldn't even be mentioned. It almost seems like the whole point of this movie was to do some kind of we-can-do-jurassic-park-too technological masturbation. I just don't get it. This movie has already (even with same english title) been done some dozens of times in Japan (and Jurassic Park II wasn't too far from it either), so why bother? It's not like we have run out of ORIGINAL ideas and REAL plots... It takes just a little courage to do something different, so just do it and stop giving us this rubbish, thank you. 3/10.

I find it funny that many people here are mad and asking why this film was made. To ask that question is the point of this movie, so you kind of got it after all. Why would someone make such a sickening movie that contains child abuse and revolting violence. And why would anyone watch it. Exactly! Message understood. However, the complete lack of plot and the very methodical and finger-pointed way of giving the message drop my rating to 7/10.