very very hard movie to watch how stupid can people really be? hard to believe...but it's a true story and has happen 70 times...i remember reading about it in newspapers in early 2000's...it happen here in New York City too. this movie gets my blood boiling..what an evil psychpath...and he doesn't get any jail time....nice justice system. people involved including the victim had i.q.s of an 8 year old child...even a 10 year old would know better. very very good movie and i agree with other reviewers...this should be a requisite viewing in every high school. i can understand why people would walk out of theaters and not finish the movie...it's a very hard watch and almost incredulous..but...it's true. i believe it's a very important movie and kudos to the people that put this movie together..may Stewart rot in hell.

So, first of all, this movie did it. It did make me create an IMDb account after years using this website...'Cause it frickin' p***ed me off big time.This is the one part in which this movie scores high. It's deeply upsetting, frustrating, infuriating, disgusting, baffling, flabbergasting, and what not. I can't imagine this not leaving an emotional response in anyone.Some stars also are due to the fact that it IS well shot, the actors are doing a decent job and the score is okay-ish too.The story roughly summed up is about a fast food joint manager receiving a call from a 'police officer' claiming he needs her 'help' to investigate the theft of some money one of her young female employees supposedly stole. And the manager as well as many other people in the restaurant all to readily...comply...to anything the voice on the phone asks them to do to the young girl.The reason I can only give it four stars is...the story. Without putting any spoilers it suffices to say the story as well as almost every single protagonist's reactions are unbelievably implausible. Nothing makes sense. And already after 10 minutes you'll want to yell at the screen 'What the heck is wrong with you people? Did somebody take a dump into your brains?'.So if you watch this movie without any background knowledge, you'll probably stop halfway for the nonesensity of it all......and if you DO know that this is a 100% true story...well, there is two possible reactions...(I'll get back to that) Somebody here wrote something along the lines of 'come off your high horses', 'you don't know how YOU'd react in a situation like this', yadi yada...I am sorry, but in my part of the world this kind of thing would NOT happen (anymore...thank god). People are disobedient and partly disrespecting towards authorities to a point where you almost feel sorry for our police force. Even the most uneducated people know their basic human rights darn well and they'll insist on them. Everyone knows what the police can and cannot do, what a civilian can and cannot do to another person ordered by a second person or not. Stores usually even have fixed procedures how to handle police related matters. So, no, I cannot relate to the plot, nor do I think could anybody from my country...or any European country for that matter...So here are the two possible reactions you can have to that movie.A) You find the plot laughable, improbable to the point of being impossible and allover disgusting. Congratulations! You grew up in a sane part of this world.B) You do find it shocking but you can relate to the probability of it all and find it likely to occur frequently or worse yet this has happened to you or somebody you know. In that case I am really really sorry! This movie IS important for you and your environment. It should be made mandatory to watch, followed by a in-depth propagation of basic human rights in all available media in your area until everyone can recite them by heart! In such case measures like this are badly needed! You wouldn't believe how shocking it was for me as a non-American who keeps hearing news about how US-Americans value their constitutional right to own a gun for self defense so much, to read here that (seemingly some of) the same people would find it plausible for some people to comply with supposed authority to such extend without questioning it for one second.So wherever this holds true, yes, this is an important movie...Go for it.For anyone else...skip it. You won't enjoy it and if suffer all the way through it you'll have a hard time to wrap your head around the fact this happened in the supposed Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.Sad allover. Wouldn't ever watch it again, nor recommend it to anyone I know...'cause there's no need.

This is great. It sucks you in, will make you mad, and might stick with you for a while.The main thing, worth mentioning about this movie is that you get really annoyed and mad at a lot of the cast. It being based in true events, also kind of makes you mad a people. In general. A lot of people are really stupid, and will blindly follow authority. The atmosphere in this is really great, it takes hold after a while, and doesn't let go until it is finished.This is the kind of movie you can recommend to snobbish movie-seeing folk, and probably get cred. (some people like cred!)It is unpleasant, so very unpleasant. I loved it.

If someone rung your fast food restaurant out of the blue, told you he was a police officer, and said you one of your employees had stolen from a customer, and needed to be detained... Would you believe them? If he FURTHER claimed that she had to be strip searched before the cops arrived, and he wanted you to do it there and then, would you say 'yes'? And that's just the beginning of the ordeal...All this sounds far-fetched and exaggerated, but it actually happened 11 years ago to a 19 year old called Louise Ogborn. And if the guy on the other end of the line in real life is as half as convincing as the one playing the role in Compliance, I'm not that surprised they fell for it. His tone has that authority to it, and as one of the duped victims says "He had an answer for every question". What kind of sadistic pleasure you could derive from traumatising a young girl for life when you're not even in the same room I don't know... But the world can be a sick, sick place sometimes I guess...As each indignity upon indignity heaps up on this innocent person who thought she was only there to do a shift, it becomes increasingly more distressing to watch. This is the mood the film strives for, as the viewer might react with incredulity at the fact that anyone could believe this caller's nonsensical story, but thanks to the raw performances and the nuanced plot progression, we eventually can. My the time it's over, you'd probably want to take a long, hot shower. I did too. After getting rid of the limescale around the drain. 7/10