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The ratings for the American 2020 version and English 2013 version are ass backwards. The American version is vastly superior to the English one. Casting, dialog, pacing, motivation and general focus are all better in the American version. Possibly it was because it was airing during Covid that the American version was not well received. It may have been too, too controversial for mass consumption. The English one is okay but nowhere near as exciting or downright scary as the American. It's a real freak-out. Terribly believable and far too close to home. Qanon has nothing on this. If your looking for edgy you've found it.

One has to be smart to rate Penbrook and these girls were dumb. Dumb as the screenplay. Time and time again this needed stupidity to continue to its enviable conclusion. It tried very ineffectively to build a reason to root for our heroes but they kept making themselves victims and there's no sympathy for the idiotic. The Rotten Tomatoes and Popcorn ratings of 86 are inexplicable. The IMDb rating of 5 out of 10 is far more appropriate. There's a lot of good flicks of this nature out there. This is not one. These folks wouldn't be admitted to Penbrook. Maybe they could find a good community college.

I watched the beginning 8 minutes or so and the wife said she "wanted" nothing to do with it but I was intrigued so now 6 months later I resumed watching to an unsatisfying conclusion. It's a real toss-up as to who's more off-putting, James McAvoy or Dane DeHaan. That can be determined later. Just how many times can opposing bullets run into each other? You know, Robin Hood only split one arrow and that was one to many. It seemed be that by the end of the movie collateral damages were inconsequential, not to mention our closest 4 legged relative the rat. I must listen to my wife more often. Absurd action sequences abound. Horrible waste of Jolie and Freeman. The story plays out better in dozens of action and sci-fi movies of the past 50 years. You'd be better served watching one of them.