Cut! (2014)

Overrated

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS (although not intentionally or explicitly): A clumsy horror film, treading the lines between spoof, self-aware and "oh my god it's not a film!" realms not very successfully. The main problem is tone - the writing is overly obvious and overdone: Lane is in no way a realistic character or human, easily committing 3 faux pas/insulting acts in the first 10 minutes that would have gotten him fired, no matter his "friend" is his supervisor.Casting your plot in a film equipment rental house is a potentially good idea to set up your "killer with a camera" idea but since this has been done a dozen times already (Shatter Studios, The Last Showing, Hollywood Kills, etc) one must do it smarter or better, not worse and more amateur-ish. I'm not talking about the low-budget look, I'm talking about the sloppy plotting and "motivation" of the characters. Rountree and Banks' script gets to "snuff" territory and stops thinking completely.Also, clearly, the 10-star reviews are ringers. Claiming "nuance" and "intelligence" and wondering why the hate, clearly they've been tasked with balancing the rating here on IMDb (and all from Feb 2015, it looks like). Very suspicious as this is no Scream, this is no Babadook, this is no Chronicle. Maybe the filmmakers and producers should have spent more time on their script and fleshing out their ideas, not gaming IMDb.This is junk.

I found paying attention to this tiresome and a challenge, a challenge I apparently could not conquer cause I'm pretty sure a spent more time daydreaming than being entertained by this film. The acting was average for a low budget and I am not reviewing to actor bash and I think the actors were fine and it was just the dialog they were handed along with the execution as a whole that just built no suspense to allow viewers to connect to the characters or the film as a whole. It simply failed to pull me in. With that said I thought perhaps it was just my mood so I took a second attempt and my opinion hasn't changed. The fake reviews on here are so misleading, no way people are giving this a 10 star unless involved in the film themselves which is sad because if the film was at all descent it would get 5-6 star average on it's own which for the horror genre is good on here and rating this a 10 star isn't gonna magically make the movie good, if anything it raise expectations and leaves viewers even more disappointed than they originally would be after watching.

I opened an IMDb account especially to warn people from this waste of time. All the rest of the reviews are by the cast and makers of the film. Actually calling it a film is doing the cinema wrong, it really is more like a student film. A bad, long, boring student film you just wished you haven't watched.If you love the Horror Genre, I invite you to write an honest review as well (after trying to see the movie of course) just so other fans wouldn't have to go through the disappointment of finding out this movie's rating (7.4 at the time this review was written) is misleading.I didn't manage to get through the first half an hour. Those who can, please contact your doctor. You have Alzheimer.

I just saw this tonight at a little theater in Hollywood. Was not sure what to expect although I did see the trailer. This movie was really good... some really scary stuff at times, I jumped a few times for sure. The acting is solid and the thing looks really good. So, who ever shot it did a fantastic job. It sets up pretty nicely for a sequel, so hopefully we see that one day.Just a little side note... after watching the movie, I have been watching over my shoulder a little more than normal. Great storytelling...Worth a watch.