American Descent (2015)
In 2014, Sergeant First Class Stephen Harris edited and uploaded this film. It was his message to the world. A group of teenagers are sent an unlabeled DVD from a U.S. Army base in Afghanistan containing a video of a strange woman tied to a tree. It ends with a clue. The teens follow the clue to another and yet another, until what started out as a game becomes a terrifying chase into the psychopathic mind of Harris. At the end of the line, the teens' world comes full circle as they discover they weren't just playing a game, they were pawns in a revenge plot only a master of war could devise.
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Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.
Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
I am not going to review this garbage extensively. Just do yourself a favour, and don't bother. That will be 80 minutes of your life you do not waste. As an actual review is required to be 10 lines minimum apparently, I need to write a little more. Pretty much all of the movie is filmed in hand-held cam mode. The acting is OK from maybe 2 of the cast, and incredibly wooden from the rest. The story is ludicrous. Some kids get sent some footage of a crime, ponder whether or not it is real, and investigate. The realism detector did not budge at all. I like the clichéd suspension of disbelief, but this was just absurd, and unenjoyable. And the payoff to the whole story...predictably weak. Seriously. Don't bother.