Why such a low score? That's what any story or film without an ending or dramatic resolution deserves. The 2 for the actor's over acting efforts to salvage a plot that was so convoluted and absurd it defied description. I find it hard to believe any producer would waste money making this.Basically, a few people wake up on a 727 jetliner and have no idea how they got there. They find out its part of a survival test in case of attack on the USA.In the end we go though everyone's life story to pad out this joke of a plot only to have the film suddenly end on the money pitch...I mean it just ends right amidst the climax with a brief written statement how the operation was covered up.Had the writer developed this into a Twighlight Zone style story it might have worked...But don't waste your time on Chariot.

Seemingly unrelated people wake up on a plane. Very soon they discover that US is under attack. When a dead body is discovered paranoia kicks in. Could these random people work together to survive? And why were they taken on the first place?The market these days is flooded with low budget horror movies and most of them have nothing on offer but cheap thrills and weak CGI. CHARIOT is not one of those films. It is focused, compact and cleverly written. You can start watching it out of curiosity and will stay with it until the credits' roll. It has some descent acting and characters you genuinely care about. On the negative side - it is hard to finish the movie like this. The writers put themselves into a corner because every possible ending would ruin the story told so far. So they have chosen the only option available. It is frustrating in a way, but a satisfying one all the same.It is interesting to see how little money may be required to tell a good story. With the similar premise Liam Neeson movie NON-STOP hitting theaters soon it is interesting to see if the big budget flick can pull a better rabbit out of the same hat!

Lets me be frank and simple because I'm not gonna make something big out of this.The movie is damn interesting... Like really REALLY catchy. Something new and confusing but in a good way tends to appear through out every 10 minutes. There's a deception, lies, plotting, betrayal and much more stacking up through out this mysterious experience... Simply said this movie is really good....that is up until that dreadful ending. I won't spoil to much here but its like the director just freaking gave up. They went this far with this type of conspiracy theory based story and it unfolds with great intrigue. Characters turning on each other, some working together trying to overcome the situation without the major Hollywood action packed bullshit. The film is different that way. But that ending is still just such a major anti-climatic joy kill that really messes up the entire thing. It's such a disappointing way to end something that developed so well through those 90 + minutes. Giving up in the end is the perfectly correct term to describe how this concluded a really interesting story with aspects not cliché whatsoever. It reminds me of the Alien Colonial marines video game ending: One sentence that sums up the entire thing and.... fade out...done....the end... Anti-climatic doesn't begin to describe such endings are. Especially considering how this could've unfolded instead. They came this far with fiction and coul've ended it the same way. Instead its like fiction for almost 90 minutes and then...freezes...Due to what really happened which nobody knows except for the government (ha ha) it's decided to leave it up to the viewers to fill in the blanks....bull s h i t. Hell... You know what, even Vanishing on 7th street had an ending to the Croatoan mystery thing...which isn't even a real mystery anymore. Anyway... All in all its a good film. Could've been better if not for that dreadful climax... Worth a look definitely. Really get your mind going... damn interesting but be mindful... The bigger the pleasure the bigger the disappointment...

I got a chance to watch "Chariot" last night and I enjoyed it and then went to bed. At the time I thought it was an imaginative low budget movie with generally decent performances.Then I woke up and it hit me smack between the eyes just where they had gone utterly wrong.In the movie, seven people wake up on an airplane. They have no idea how they got there. They learn from a mobile phone that they find that the country is under nuclear attack and that they are in the plane as part of a secret operation to preserve a remnant of humanity. They also learn that their destination (Andrews Air Force Base) was destroyed and that they have to get the pilot to divert the plane. Of course the crew is locked in the cockpit and won't answer.One of the seven passengers (Genevieve) is a government employee in the program. She verifies everything about Operation Chariot.Before long, we have one person dead. Genevieve takes the available gun and gets into the cockpit, killing the co-pilot and severely wounding the pilot - who quickly dies from the injuries. One of the passengers is killed by the co-pilot as well.We later learn that the whole thing was an experiment and that Genevieve knew it. She was on the team trying to figure out how to get people to calmly sit through this flight during a nuclear attack and she shot two people to death. That's three counts of homicide, two people she shot and one count of felony murder for the guy who was shot by the co-pilot - all for a fake experiment she knew for a fact was a fake. If she survived, she'd be going away for life in any state of the union and that's a pretty big if because she just shot the pilot and copilot of the plane and nobody left alive can fly it.I do applaud some parts of the movie. A thriller set in just an old airplane was a good idea. No other sets whatsoever. The cast was small but quite good, especially Anthony Montgomery. If you're a Trekkie you'll know the name as the black navigator on Star Trek: Enterprise but he acted so completely different he was almost unrecognizable. Unfortunately that logic hole is so big you could ... fly an airplane through it.