
Re-formed by a coded message to their web site, a group of animal rights activists set off to free an imprisoned colleague from a terrifying ordeal. Their rescue mission leads them to a disused lab, but what should have been a simple raid turns into a series of twisted and mind bending incidents where the free and the caged switch places, in this tormented psychological horror.... (Full plot summary below)
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Re-formed by a coded message to their web site, a group of animal rights activists set off to free an imprisoned colleague from a terrifying ordeal. Their rescue mission leads them to a disused lab, but what should have been a simple raid turns into a series of twisted and mind bending incidents where the free and the caged switch places, in this tormented psychological horror.
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| eFilmCritic.comBrian MckayIt could have worked with a bit more of a creative story and some much snappier dialogue. As it stands, it's just another bottom-feeder in an ocean of genre mediocrity. |
| User ReviewRenae Athis was a good movie to me! even though it was pretty gruesome but hey Scary Spice was in it so i definitely didn't hate it. it also had a pretty interesting plot as well |
| User ReviewJim GA good solid sci-fi, thriller, suspense movie. For most of the movie, you don't really know what is going on. A really creepy movie. Yep, I'll watch it again; if nothing else just to figure it out. |
| User ReviewPrivate UI've been going through what I hope to be permanent changes lately. This means my priorities have been different and I haven't been going out to rent movies, relying on whatever my cable system serves up. After a few weeks I've discovered that approach doesn't get it. There's some good stuff on cable but precious little of the really way out, bizarro films I enjoy. So I went to Video Americain today and lived up to my profile by getting two movies that have never even been released in this country, Larry Clark's "Ken Park" and Peter Greenaway's "The Baby Of Macon". I saw a real whopper this morning, "Report To The Commissioner". I remember this film coming out with a lot of ballyhoo in the Seventies but nobody remembers it today, and with good reason, it's stupid. It's a bizarre story about undercover work gone horribly wrong and the resultant coverup, but there is a fatal flaw, the wog-boggling lead performance of Michael Moriarity who acts like a pre-Raphaelite flower child when he's supposed to be a rookie cop. It's ludicrous overacting and it's no wonder he spent several years doing Larry Cohen exploitation movies after this. The plot was strange in a couple of ways as well but a better lead actor and director might have worked out of it all. Instead we get two ludicrous chase scenes as padding, one with Moriarity chasing a black guy in boxer shorts over rooftops and one of a legless street beggar careening through Manhattan like a skateboarder! Some good actors here despite all that, Yaphet Kotto, Hector Elizondo, Vic Tayback, William Devane and Richard Gere as a pimp (!). There's an oddconnection knowing that twenty years later Moriarity and Kotto would be working in two excellent TV cop shows, Moriarity inder control as prosecuting attorney Ben Stone in "Law And Order" and Kotto as LT Giardella on "Homicide: Life On The Street". |
| User ReviewAdam EStarts out with potential, only to slide off the rails in an insipid second half. |
| User ReviewRobert CWhen I heard "animal rights activists" and saw the opening credits of this film, I chalked it up to seeing a bunch of college kids take some animals' places in brutal experimental procedures. I liked that idea. But by the time the film was over, I was bitterly disappointed. I was far more disturbed by the opening sequence in which a series of Vivisection photos (with no credit to the actual film makers) flashed across the screen than at any point during the actual film. And I was more often laughing at the actors' bizarre reactions or peculiarly muted emotions than I was eagerly awaiting the explanation. Plot holes were plentiful and suspense was minimal. The only means in which it redeemed itself was by way of "stupidly funny" horror flick. Save it for a boring night with friends or skip it all together. |
| User ReviewAdam CI checked this out only because Tom Hardy is in it as he is my new favorite actor. It's a Science Fiction film where an activist group which calls themselves L.D. 50 go out to different labs and free animals that are being used for scientific experiments (similar to the whole product testing of chemicals on harmless animals). One of their comrades is left behind after he trips and alarm and is caught in a trap. The rest of the group make a plan to rescue him only to uncover that he is being a guinea pig to a new experiment on human beings. I really didn't expect anything going into this since there were a lot of bad reviews. I was right. The film goes nowhere fast and most of the time the group is bickering with each other and there's a bunch of screaming and silliness. The acting was very dull, especially from Melanie Brown. Does that name sound familiar to any of you? If it doesn't I'll give you a hint. She was a Spice Girl. FAIL!!! Hardy's performance was the only one I like because he actually made an effort. The set designs looked like something from a basement in a Telecommunications lab that I've been to. This is a film I advise everyone to stay away from. You'd be better off doing something else for 97 min than waste your time on this film. It's pure salty garbage! |