Open Grave
Open Grave
R | 02 January 2014 (USA)
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A man awakes-- without memory -- in a pit full of bodies and must figure out if the people who rescued him are the killers, or if he is the murderer.

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Michael Ledo

John awakes in a pit with dead people. He was helped out by a mute oriental woman who doesn't understand English. He goes to a house. There are people inside. Everyone in the group has amnesia and a mark on their arm. The house has plenty of food and ammo. Driver licenses let the people know their names, but they remember nothing else.The film doesn't do a great job of dropping clues, but by 55 minutes into the film, you get a better idea what is happening, but it isn't until the end all is revealed.I liked the opening scene. It was slow and effective. I also liked the ending, how it tied things together. The problem I had was the characters. They were not entertaining or memorable. They effectively played the scared hollow headed people they were scripted to be, and that left me getting bored as they strolled through the woods.Makes an okay rental.Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

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ukulele33

I liked this movie and i loved the plot. I found the script was original and the acting was above par. But WOW was the directing horrible!!! I can't imagine the actors were OK with the way it was run. I'm not giving any spoilers away but there were may parts in the movie i had to do a double take. It was kind of like watching a bad slasher movie. Like, don't do that!! and your're an idiot if you go there!! All in all if you like a story that where you are the antagonist finding out whats going on as the movie progresses with a bit of horror then you will like it.

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InfinateANGELzPORTALz

I was thoroughly grateful for this new twist for its genre!! To not add it to the generalized "time & time again" type of film genre that's been made yet again.It's of course common of all the genre's(&their accompanied sub-genre's)of films being,&have been made,although in my opinion it's especially more commonly seen when it comes to the Horror-Mystery Thriller movies(even if you include Sci-Fi into the mix w/havin the same mentioned sub-genre's),&even when it comes to also the movies generalized,like this one,as a"B- Minus"film.I was intrigued when I'd read the movies summary,&hadn't ever heard of it either until I happened to stumble upon it here(like I do w/Many other movies as well),so I gave it a chance,&am really glad I did!!Not only am I Grateful the director,producer,writer,&so forth,had come up with a different overall direction on the movies concept,&in a good way!Plus the actors may be ones I've at least never heard of before,but they All did their parts awesome,to where that all involved had pulled together an excellent movie to watch!!I admit that I was expecting to possibly chalk it up as either: yet another "B-Minus Movie" where *Yawn*I'm bored,or 5 minutes into a film & you can already tell its a Big Flop,or even is somewhat decent yet is maybe even predictable...We have all been there,& have seen these types of movies to where even you find yourself watching a flick thinking over & over "Maybe it'll get better soon...maybe it'll get better soon...",but didn't because next thing ya know it over,or it's just that bad you don't even bother to finish the movie.I've definitely had my fill of badly executed(literally)films where if in the right hands &maybe budget also was higher,it'd have a better overall rating w/reviews too,because the summary and story line of the film is a good one,buts sadly made.All that being said,I hope my reviews of some help without giving away any spoilers,&that others give it a try!!!

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Jerghal

Normally I like these kinds of movies: the protagonists don't know who they are or why they are there. You (the audience) get to uncover the mystery together with the characters. Problem with this film is that you get to know the end pretty fast (like after about 40 minutes) and then you have to wait about an hour to see the conclusion this film-with-a-much-to-thin-plot was inevitably was going to. Also quite annoying is that the characters keep saying 'I have a feeling I know you' to each other, but like a lot. That and other lame questions like 'what are we doing here'. Not only is this irritating because obviously nobody knows anything, it also doesn't give you any extra background information on the characters. Cube had sort of a similar premise but was made much, much better. Look, it's not a bad film but as a mystery film the story should have had more depth and have been much richer. 6/10 for me.

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