Emmet Mc Laughlin

(2012-05-12 20:39:29)

Good for a bit of gore (though there wasn't much) but nothing else really

I had high hopes for this film before watching it as it seemed like aninteresting premise, and the Saw connection was a bonus too.It started off okay and seemed like it was going somewhere good but thefilm was overall, a bit of a let down.The only positive was the gore, not enough to call this a gory film,i.e. Saw or Hostel, so it's not really even worth a watch for those whojust want to see blood and guts.The "twist" at the end as somewhat annoying, although I had neverguessed the outcome and it. But for some reason I just found it boring,maybe because the film had basically been boring up until this point.Also, there were some unrealistic parts such SPOILER: police notseeming to care and the fact that it couldn't be verified that a womanwas murdered in a club full of people :SPOILERBy the end I was failing to see much a similarity to Saw, so I watchedthe end credits to actually see who was involved that I would haverecognised from Saw. Low and behold there was no-one, it seems onlyproduction company is the same.Overall, it could have been a good film but it was a let down.

gavin6942

(2012-05-12 06:46:57)

Great Gore, But Some Serious Plot Issues

From the producers of SAW, VLOG is a groundbreaking extreme-horror filmabout a real-life webcam girl (Brooke Marks) whose online murder is notwhat it seems.I have some issues with this film. First and foremost, I recentlywatched a movie called "iCrime" wherein a web star gets kidnapped. Thefeel was very different, but I think the overall inspiration was thesame. And in both cases, I think the idea of a vlog is really stupid.(This film can be defended, somewhat, because it was made three yearsago... why it took this long to get released is beyond me.) I disliked Brooke Marks (the character, not the actress). Now, this ispossibly the way I am supposed to feel. But she is everything that iswrong with a superficial, shallow culture. She uses people, sex ismeaningless to her. She is vapid, and nothing more. When her friendsstart dying, I cannot feel much sympathy for her.I take issue with the way the police are presented. Even if the policeat first think it is a hoax or prank, once they begin to thinkotherwise, there should be a little better police work. Maybe an IPaddress can be untraceable, but I am fairly confident they could tracea phone call. And blood splatter, no matter how well you clean, isprobably detectable with Luminol. I find it hard to believe that anyonecan be completely vanished.Those concerns aside, the selling point for the film (and what saves itfro man even lower score) is the gore. Great blood, guts, decapitation,explosion (and thanks for explaining how to make fertilizer bombs). Thefilm takes such a drastic turn that it almost seems like a film withina film. But, hey, if it was not for these murder sequences the entiremovie would not be worth a pile of festering dog spit.As you can see from my summary, they are trying to play up theconnection to "Saw". But there really is not a connection, at least noobvious one. Twisted Pictures was involved, but there is no actor,director or writer from the "Saw" franchise involved with this one, soif you need more "Saw" action, go rent "The Collector".