Compliance (2012)

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I'm 20 minutes into this movie, and I can't believe no one said "can you get the guy on the phone to come down here and show us a badge"! I know the movie is based on true events, but this flies in the face of common sense.

very very hard movie to watch how stupid can people really be? hard to believe...but it's a true story and has happen 70 times...i remember reading about it in newspapers in early 2000's...it happen here in New York City too. this movie gets my blood boiling..what an evil psychpath...and he doesn't get any jail time....nice justice system. people involved including the victim had i.q.s of an 8 year old child...even a 10 year old would know better. very very good movie and i agree with other reviewers...this should be a requisite viewing in every high school. i can understand why people would walk out of theaters and not finish the movie...it's a very hard watch and almost incredulous..but...it's true. i believe it's a very important movie and kudos to the people that put this movie together..may Stewart rot in hell.

So, first of all, this movie did it. It did make me create an IMDb account after years using this website...'Cause it frickin' p***ed me off big time.This is the one part in which this movie scores high. It's deeply upsetting, frustrating, infuriating, disgusting, baffling, flabbergasting, and what not. I can't imagine this not leaving an emotional response in anyone.Some stars also are due to the fact that it IS well shot, the actors are doing a decent job and the score is okay-ish too.The story roughly summed up is about a fast food joint manager receiving a call from a 'police officer' claiming he needs her 'help' to investigate the theft of some money one of her young female employees supposedly stole. And the manager as well as many other people in the restaurant all to readily...comply...to anything the voice on the phone asks them to do to the young girl.The reason I can only give it four stars is...the story. Without putting any spoilers it suffices to say the story as well as almost every single protagonist's reactions are unbelievably implausible. Nothing makes sense. And already after 10 minutes you'll want to yell at the screen 'What the heck is wrong with you people? Did somebody take a dump into your brains?'.So if you watch this movie without any background knowledge, you'll probably stop halfway for the nonesensity of it all......and if you DO know that this is a 100% true story...well, there is two possible reactions...(I'll get back to that) Somebody here wrote something along the lines of 'come off your high horses', 'you don't know how YOU'd react in a situation like this', yadi yada...I am sorry, but in my part of the world this kind of thing would NOT happen (anymore...thank god). People are disobedient and partly disrespecting towards authorities to a point where you almost feel sorry for our police force. Even the most uneducated people know their basic human rights darn well and they'll insist on them. Everyone knows what the police can and cannot do, what a civilian can and cannot do to another person ordered by a second person or not. Stores usually even have fixed procedures how to handle police related matters. So, no, I cannot relate to the plot, nor do I think could anybody from my country...or any European country for that matter...So here are the two possible reactions you can have to that movie.A) You find the plot laughable, improbable to the point of being impossible and allover disgusting. Congratulations! You grew up in a sane part of this world.B) You do find it shocking but you can relate to the probability of it all and find it likely to occur frequently or worse yet this has happened to you or somebody you know. In that case I am really really sorry! This movie IS important for you and your environment. It should be made mandatory to watch, followed by a in-depth propagation of basic human rights in all available media in your area until everyone can recite them by heart! In such case measures like this are badly needed! You wouldn't believe how shocking it was for me as a non-American who keeps hearing news about how US-Americans value their constitutional right to own a gun for self defense so much, to read here that (seemingly some of) the same people would find it plausible for some people to comply with supposed authority to such extend without questioning it for one second.So wherever this holds true, yes, this is an important movie...Go for it.For anyone else...skip it. You won't enjoy it and if suffer all the way through it you'll have a hard time to wrap your head around the fact this happened in the supposed Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.Sad allover. Wouldn't ever watch it again, nor recommend it to anyone I know...'cause there's no need.

This movies is the dumbest movies I have ever seen in my life. There is a fine line between being stupid and down right missing a brain. I'm not quiet sure why or who in the world is like that. There wear many moments where I almost Wanted to turn off the movie of how frustrated I was. Poorly made movie, poor acting, it's beyond explaining how naive people can be in the world. It almost reminded me of the Elizabeth Smart Case. for those who know about that unfortunate incident. Do not waste your time with this movie !!!!! I definitely would not recommend anyone with any common sense to watch this movie as it does get quiet frustrating.