Nine Lives (2002)

Truly Dreadful Film

Absolutely brilliant

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Watching Nine Lives truly has a formula and storyline that is unique. I found myself wondering how the characters were going to get out of this crazy curse. The dialog was in typical horror movie fashion, and gave a bit of a cheesy unrealistic vibe. Some of the acting is quite frankly laughable. The standouts are Ameila Warner and David Nicolle who give the most emotion filled and honest performances. The biggest flaw is heiress Paris Hilton, it's not that she's a bad actress per-say, but I feel like the only reason she was cast is because she is so widely recognized. Her picture is front and center in the poster and yet, she is the first victim, dying in the first 30 or so minutes. I find that very unfair to the above mentioned standouts who are clearly the main focus in this movie.Camera work, lighting, special effects are all casualties to the low-budget that this movie had to work with, which the storyline strongly needed.Overall, I recommend that if you are a Paris Hilton fan and want to see this, it is better to rent it or else you are wasting you money. It is decent, not as bad as I expected honestly, I think it would have been much better sans-Paris (or at least not make her the center of the poster, which is almost like false advertising) and with a bigger budget.

this movie is OK for the horror genre.it's nothing new or special,but the genre has produced worse.i didn't find the acting all that bad.again,it wasn't great,but i've seen worse.Paris Hilton is in this one,and is no better or worse than anyone else in the movie.i didn't find the movie particularly scary or thrilling.but then a lot of so called horror movies aren't scary,merely disgusting.but i did think it was passable entertainment for 85 minutes or so.if you go in expecting award winning acting,and anything but a time waster,you'll be disappointed.if you've never seen one of these types of movies,you might find it scary.otherwise,just enjoy watching characters doing the stupid things they do in these movies before getting dispatched.for me,Nine Lives is a 4.5/10

Like so many others, I only watched this to evaluate firsthand Paris Hilton's acting ability or lack thereof. I have seen one other film starring PH and she performed brilliantly, (although the lighting wasn't real good) but she wasn't given much dialog, so it wasn't really a fair test.In Nine Lives, although she had lots of competition, she still managed to pull off easily the most wooden performance of the "production". I use that word loosely, because a production usually implies that there is some sort of coherent plot that isn't too obvious and predictable.Had things been done a little more tongue-in-cheek, this film could have landed solidly in the so-bad-it's-good bin. As it is, it's just pathetically lame. Film-school project. Sorry.

I've seen LOADS of slasher films in my time. I've also seen loads of low budget British films. This is the worst example of either that I've ever seen! First off, there was a HUGE picture of Paris Hilton on the cover. It said it was a horror film on the back of the box. "Wow! This could perhaps be a kitsch laugh" I thought as I went to the video store counter. How wrong I was.Paris is only in the film for 10 minutes - she's the first to die. Which leaves it to 8 really really terrible British actors to end up getting chopped up. To give you an idea how bad this is I have never seen any of these actors before or since - they haven't even been on the likes of The Bill of Hollyoaks. Oh! And they're all very posh! They're probably pals of the writer/director! The plot is so tedious that I had to fast forward through the majority if this film - even though it was only 80 minutes - because it was so flaming tedious! Steer clear viewers! It's not worth it!