Below contains spoilers about the overall theme (not about the plot).The theme is that people are naturally evil, and the only thing that makes them act nicely are inhibitions imposed by society norms. It is not a new philosophical idea. It references the "Ring of Gyges" myth, and the "Original Sin" concept of Christianity.First, I disagree that people are naturally sinful. A person is born "tabula rasa", neither good nor evil, and he becomes good or evil based on his understanding (or misunderstanding) of reality.Second, the people in the movie begin to act in crazy (and often evil) ways not because they are losing their inhibitions, but because they stop thinking rationally. They start to act solely on a whim, following blindly whatever crazy idea that pops into their head. Ayn Rand has called this "whim worship". Quote:"What does it mean, to act on whim? It means that a man acts like a zombie, without any knowledge of what he deals with, what he wants to accomplish, or what motivates him. It means that a man acts in a state of temporary insanity. Is this what you call juicy or colorful? I think the only juice that can come out of such a situation is blood. To act against the facts of reality can result only in destruction." — Ayn Rand (Playboy interview)And these are exactly the effects portrayed in the movie. But, the movie gets wrong the cause of these effects. It is not removal of the inhibitions, but it is the stopping of rational thinking that causes people to act crazy.

A weekend getaway takes a dangerous turn when a mysterious nightclub owner (Pierce Brosnan) introduces a group of friends to a new designer drug. Stripped of their inhibitions, they start living out their wildest fantasies - but what starts out as a fun night of partying quickly turns deadly, as the island paradise deteriorates into a tropical madhouse. URGE also stars Justin Chatwin, Ashley Greene, Alexis Knapp, Bar Paly, Chris Geere, Nick Thune, Tommy Yoo, and Danny Masterson. This film was meant to fail since day one since it stars Drangonball: Evolution star Justin Chatwin an actor that just can't act, Pierce Brosnan is barely in the film and he has this creepy laugh and i thought that Ashley Greene was going to be the saving grace of this film but honestly everyone was dull.

Urge appears to be the prequel to a film that no-one would ever want to watch. It cannot decide what it wants to be thriller? Horror? Cautionary drug tale? Social commentary? It is in fact none of those things. It feels like the makers started to bore themselves and made it up as they went along cramming in more and more nonsense.Its like the film you make up between your friends when you're 17 and stoned, riddled with loose ends and inconsistencies and when you wake in the morning you feel embarrassed how good you thought it seemed but in this case they actually made it!The characters are pointless and unlikable their roles within the film a mystery to the viewer. Although it hopes to seem deep it says nothing except humans are essential bad people which is in fact nonsense unless your talking about the writer of this film.

Urge is badly done cautionary tale of living life to an excess. It has a nightclub scene which reminded me of Eyes Wide Shut masked ball scene and it made that movie's laughable soft core scenes look like a work of art.The film follows a an obnoxious tech millionaire and his cronies flying to an island where they enter an exclusive nightclub. One of them, Jason is invited to meet the mysterious club owner (Pierce Brosnan) who is rather devilish. He gives Jason a drug called Urge that allows people to be uninhibited and urges them to share the drug with his friends but they can only use it once.Jason seems unaffected by Urge but the others have the time of their lives and they ignore the warnings and try it again. This time they become angry, paranoid and violent as deep seated resentments bubble over. It seems infectious as the whole island have gone off the rails with random acts of extreme violence.Brosnan pops up now and then with some philosophical advice but the film is incoherent, messy, boring and filled with unlikeable people. The women are sexy and this and at least provide suitable eye candy.