Territories (2010)

Admirable film.

A Masterpiece!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The film tells the story of five friends who are stopped by two border guards. Typical border questions turns into humiliation. They are then kidnapped, held in cages and tortured. Turns out they are ex-soldiers and they think the innocent friends are terrorists. The first 50 mins or so of the film is a decent horror film. But then it turns into a moral story about Guantanamo Bay and torture and the film loses the plot. I lost interest and have no idea what the private detective had to do with the plot. I also flicked to the end and have no idea what happened to the friends. Its a shame as the film does start out as a decent horror torture film but it feels like they changed direction and tried to justify the film. I think this ruined it as it was very well acted and had good suspension and effects.

How this has a score of 5.0 on here is beyond a joke. The first 25 mins or so were quite good with an interesting premise but then it just went completely downhill. Everything just seemed completely pointless and is never really explained. And the ending was, well, I don't know what is was but it made no sense whatsoever. The acting, music and camera-work were competent enough but the whole film seemed like it had just been made up as they went along. If you're going to make a film, at least start by having a point to it, this one didn't. So if you are looking for something interesting or exciting then avoid this one like the plague. It left me feeling cheated and quite depressed.

The whole movie starts pretty thrilling and interesting but after 45 minutes just gives up and stops the story. No kidding, the story just stops to exist - nothing ever gets revealed - and then it just ends.100 minutes of my life I will never get back. The actors were OK but let's be honest I don't watch a movie just because of good actors, especially when no one seems to know what they are acting for.All in all - not worth watching. You wont find anyone who liked it (unless being related to one of the crew or getting payed for it).I don't even know why they added that private detective after 47 minutes, gave up on all the main actors (except the bad guys) and went with a storyline that felt like just made up to find (a crappy) ending.

It is quite evident that this thing was pieced together on a daily basis. I refuse to believe that someone actually sat down and wrote a complete script for this pile of trash, but I would love to know how they pitched this thing and managed to get someone to put up 3 million to put it together. SOMEONE is a very good salesperson to pull that off.The beginning was great and the actors did a fine job of showing confusion, anger and then surprise and fear when they are taken hostage by these two deranged "customs" agents. But once we're past that we lose any semblance of there being a plot or reason or motive behind these guys doing this. There's a few things that just don't make a lot of sense. Where did the guys get the uniforms, for one and obviously the local cops have been keeping an eye on these two.After the beginning it really seemed as though you had some small film crew take a bunch of actors out on a camping trip and each day started out with a creative meeting that began with, "What are we going to shoot today?" I should have listened to the other reviewers who said to give it a pass, but I didn't. If you get to this review PRIOR to watching this, please do NOT, you will thank me and the others here later if you watch something else...ANYTHING else.