Live Feed
Live Feed
R | 26 September 2006 (USA)
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Five young adults are about to find themselves in a fight for their lives, pitted against evil itself! While on vacation in a foreign city, one of the five makes a seemingly innocent albeit ignorant mistake and soon all of them will realize the cost of such an inconsequential action. A stranger appears to help them, but is this too little, too late?

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staffy-2

I've no idea what movie the '10 Star' reviewers on here have seen but it stretches credulity to think that it was the same one that I've just suffered through.I really struggle to find anything to recommend about this movie, I really do. The best I can come up with is that, in a time when the movie industry is moving towards CGI blood as the standard, it is good to see that somebody still seems to keeping practical effects alive... Even if they aren't exactly convincing here.Oh, and Taayla Markell is very easy on the eyes.There, that's two good things. As for the bad... Where the heck to start? Well, you might have noticed this review gives no indication of what the story is... That's because it's barely there and only really serves to string together bland and unconvincing murder scenes.Unconvincing is really a word that sums this movie up. Set 'somewhere' in China, the fact that it's clearly a Chinatown somewhere with English street signs and all means that 'suspension of disbelief' has been kicked to the curb and we're not even 3 minutes in. It only gets worse from there.The acting is uniformly terrible, not even up to the standards of daytime TV soaps, though given the dialogue they have work with not even Alec Guinness could do anything with it. The characters are also poor with absolutely none of them being remotely likable. By the movie's end you really won't care who lives but you will hope every one of them dies. This won't be out of the desire to watch another boring torture scene, but for the reason that there all vague stereotypes. Speaking of, this movie also contains a veritable rogues gallery of offensive Asian stereotypes. A dog's getting its head chopped off inside of 5 minutes and by the end the gangster's molls are delivering the type of dialogue that would shame an 80's 'Nam movie.With lot's of Asians in the movie you just know that some of them are into their martial arts and, yes, there's a lot of 'Crap Fu' on display. The director really doesn't know how to frame action, or anything for that matter, but definitely not action.I could go on but I'm too depressed. To sum up there's no story, it's technically incompetent (outside of the effects), the acting is atrocious, the script dire, the characters loathsome (and that's just our 'heroes'), the setting unconvincing, the stereotypes offensive, the violence boring and the supposed dark comedy non-existent.I saw it for free (on TV) and I've paid too heavy a price. Don't make the same mistake, watch something else!

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Morbid69

Characters: They really weren't that spectacular. But, let's be honest, you don't watch a movie like Live Feed for multi level acting. For what it was the actors did a pretty good job doing their respective parts. Some parts where a little cheesy (but I'd have been disappointed if there weren't any!). Overall the actors did a good job. Out of all of them I thought Lee Tichon was the best.Story: I liked the story. I know it wasn't much, but it really bothers me when movies try to create a extremely complex story line's in slasher type movies. All you really need is a reason why the characters are there, and a multitude of ways for the characters to die. You did that. Good job.Blood/Gore: What can I say? This movie's deaths were AWESOME. That snake scene was ****ing genius! I loved all the close up's of all the gore. But my all time favorite part of the movie was the sprays. You had those wounds spraying like old faithful! It was awesome and I commend you for creating such awesomeness.Directing: I thought that it was really well directed. There were a couple areas I didn't like though. One was just one shot that didn't seem to be color corrected? I think it was supposed to look like it was part of the "live feed" but I thought it interrupted the mood of the movie. The other thing was the end. I thought the ending shootout/fight scene weren't edited nearly as tight as they should have been. Way to long to get from shot to shot. Otherwise, great job.Overall: Overall I would give this film a 9/10. Mainly because I loved the gore, which was really the only reason I wanted to watch it. It totally meet my expectations in all areas and surpassed them in others. Nice job Ryan!

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show_me_your_belly_butto

I just want to start by saying this is the first review of a film I have done on the net. I felt the need to warn people about this film because it truly is one of the worst films I have ever seen. After reading interviews with the director he says he respects constructive criticism and so i will try to avoid bashing the film just for the sake of it and offer my opinions as to why i found it to be so catastrophically terrible.1. The actors. I know the budget may not have allowed for great thespians but with Nicholson working in the industry for over ten years surely he knew some actors who were at least average.2. The incredibly lame make up and special effects. Once again budget obviously interfered with what was originally intended but after working in make up for so many years there is really no excuse.3. The obvious similarities to Hostel. Whilst not being exactly a rip off it sure does try to cash in on the former films success. Only problem is Roth knew where he was going and exactly how to get there...4. The music. Not at all creepy or haunting not even sickening just plain annoying.5. The script in general. All dialogue was forced and terrible! Also the sub plots about the theatre and the guy who comes in to save them were weak as and almost like an afterthought.6. The editing. WTF. How jarring, and not in a good way. nuf said.Seriously I would like to hear the director's thoughts on my post (he no doubt frequents his pages on IMDb.) cause buddy... what were you thinking. Surely at some point during either the shooting or editing you realised what a turkey yolu had on your hands... Sorry I don't want to be harsh but you must have more talent than this i hope your next feature that gutterballs movie or wahtever is better, hopefully practice makes progress.But in the mean time avoid this like the plague. I want my 81 mins back with interest. (At least I didn't pay to watch it.)

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Dermot Cahill

An obvious b-grade effort to cash in on the Hostel/Saw buzz, my expectations for this film were low (really low!) and yet it still managed to disappoint on every level. The acting is so bad it's not even funny, the plot-line is non-existent and the only scare was realizing that I had wasted 1hour 21 minutes watching it! I'm surprised to note that 34 people gave it a 10 star rating. I can only suspect that 33 of these are Cast and Crew. The 34th is possibly the directors mother? - although I'm sure even she would find it hard to go higher than a 2! DVD extras include an hour long "making of" feature. Which raises the question, "Why?" (although perhaps it serves to demonstrate what not to do!). Avoid at all costs.

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