3

Tortured horror movie made in 2017. They are women from the couple who are in love and were raped at a party before they met. The man is trying to catch this rapist and make him confess. It is a film that has been constantly tried to be played with the audience, but still failed to exceed the average. Questions such as whether the man actually did it, the person they held captive did it, whether the woman is lying or whether everything is a lie confuses the audience. Again, it's ridiculous that the victim escaped for a moment and looked for the key to open the outer door.

I'm usually pretty generous with my reviews. As long as I'm entertained I'm happy. But this movie was quite horrible. Only reason I gave it 2 stars was for about 5 minutes of suspense about 2/3 of the way through. It was poorly acted. At the end I was just really disappointed I wasted about 75 minutes of my life.

Although the concept was far from an original one and had the danger of being very schlocky if executed wrongly, it was pretty intriguing at the same time and did have potential to be unsettling if handled correctly. Have an appreciation for films that balance horror, mystery and thriller. The cover looked creepy and grabs the attention. There was not an awful lot going for '3' otherwise but the potential was there.

'3' is a long way from unsettling and leans more towards the schlocky side of things. Will say right now that to me there are far worse films out there, both of my recent viewings and ever, and there are films that wasted their potential far more and to a worse degree (most of them though had potential that was bigger than that in '3'). This is not being said with any malice or prejudice, nor with any intent of disliking '3', part of me was really wanting to like it and hope that '3' would exceed my mixed expectations.

There is in '3' a spooky setting and moments of slick photography. Unfortunately that is pretty much it for the positives.

Going on the many negatives, the characters have no dimension or development to make them remotely interesting. Nor do they have any traits in making them rootable, the motivations are only bare bones and at times random and nothing more and the way they behave irritates and lacks logic. This does affect the acting which never rises above mediocre and is at worst atrocious. The victim fares least badly because there was some effort but too many parts are either overplayed or anaemic, never believed or cared for his plight.

Furthermore, '3' is directed with little enthusiasm and no tension and the script, especially the heavy emphasis on the back and forth, is needlessly repetitive, not interesting at all and very silly and stilted. Worst of all is the story, on top of dragging in pace and being contrived there is nothing remotely scary for the horror element to convince (not to mention the randomness of some of it, the gratuity of some of the content and there is a complete lack of creativity), it is sorely lacking in tension and suspense to be thrilling (the dragging pace killing it) and the mystery is really not much of one.

Overall, very bad. 2/10 Bethany Cox

This is the worst movie I have seen in years. Horrible acting ad directing and basically no story. The good reviews are obviously fake. You've been warned

I really enjoyed this movie and watched it on Amazon . After ten minutes into the movie , it slowly pulls you in with some nice camera work and storyline . Not a large cast , but all work very well together building the plot and suspense as they go . The victim guy was great and wast perfectly , Todd and his " friend " bounced off each other leading the viewer feeling like we were in control and knew where it was going . You do not ! Overall , Lou Simon's best work today , hope she continues to produce work of this quality .