Bane (2008)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Absolutely the worst movie.

A lot of fun.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Please do not waste any time in watching this movie. I feel like asking the producers to give me back the last two hours of my life, in which I could be doing something worth while.I was prepared to stop watching after fifteen minutes. I only carried on because I felt like I deserved an explanation why this film was horrific. I was hoping that would come at the end...NO NO NO NO NOThe money used to make this film would have been better spent going to charity, to save actual lives.In hind sight, I should have read the reviews before wasting my time....

Four women wake up in a room without their memories, and their only clue to their identities are names written on their wrist-bands. Cue very creepy, gory and (the director hopes) terrifying goings-on. Of course here's a twist at the end.***here be the spoiler!***The problem with the entire movie is: the twist is revealed in the first minutes of the film. There was only one woman, in the opening credits, to sit down in the chair calmly and receive the injection. That gave it away entirely, and the "explanation" at the end is so little-explored within the film, they just don't matter.

It didn't turn out quite as good as either of them, though still interesting paranoid sci-fi.It does in fact amount to a combination of Killing Room and District 9, as odd as that may sound. More of an interesting concept than anything else because the acting and direction fail to keep it moving.The one story-line problem is that the weapon against aliens they're developing has no realistic way to be applied on a large scale and would likely fail without the ability to isolate individual aliens, which given the description of events and aliens does not seem plausible. Fortunately, it doesn't ruin the film.

The film opens with four women waking up in a room, they have no memory of their lives before nor do they know where they are. The women show "character" immediately - there's the emotional one, the tough one, the sensitive one and the heroine. The women are subjected to various tests, which are conducted by a callous scientist and his assistants who talk like robots and look like they belong rather to a street rave. The action is like slime - sticky and drags on forever. The last quarter of the film, however, sees a change of pace and the viewer is poured over with information that literally comes out of the blue and quite frankly makes no sense.The whole feel of "Bane" is bizarre - it tried to be too original and ended up making a mess out of itself. It's not a least bit interesting to watch either, it tries to be gory, psychological and supernatural all at the same time and fails miserably in all genres.