Bane (2008)

Good start, but then it gets ruined

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

One of my favourite genres is horror. This movie is extremely poor, badly written, awful to watch. Avoid it all all costs, truly !!

My girlfriend and I bought two movies, I chose Ironclad and she chose Bane. She's a bit of a horror junkie. We flipped a coin to see which movie we'd watch first, unluckily it was heads, her choice.She fell asleep about half way through, she was the lucky one. I stayed up watching this because if I'm going to spend forty minutes or so watching a horror then I might as well see why the hell there is an alien in it...From the very beginning I saw bad acting and shoddy camera work. Close ups of bad acting and their bad expressions. Grimacing background music which changes constantly, the music or noise does not meld at all. An irritating tick tocking from the clock in the main cell, which I assume is to help break them, but in the end it just annoys the viewer. The dialogue seems broken and awkward. When one of the women was crying constantly I couldn't help but laugh, it was such a poor display of acting and bad camera work. The plot line doesn't even make sense. OK fine, they are trying to transfer emotions from the girls to the aliens. Emotions kill? and I thought emotions are chemicals in the brain, how do you transfer that with an electronic signal? Why was the alien not guarded, and a button to release it right next to it?. The killer is a Ninjabutcher who can climb ceilings and the prisoners never look up, the camera doesn't either. You don't really know how big their cell is, sometimes they are in the shower sometimes they are somewhere else. Why did the girl have these dreams, were they real? why didn't the others wake up? It's just all nonsense.Come on, the Blair Witch Project had less budget and it was great. You don't need a big budget to create suspense. This movie should be viewed by students on what not to do when making a film. I had to see Ironclad straight away to see real actors and transfer the emotion of disgust to contentment via transmission device - DVD before implosion occurred.

It's discouraging that a listless film like Bane got solid festival play. The film is easily the most meandering, pointless horror movie I've seen in a long time. The filmmakers deserve kudos for managing to screw up an intriguing concept, which involves a bunch of women waking up in a test facility with no memory of how they got there. The viewer is intentionally kept in the dark about what the heck is going on, presumably to help ratchet up the tension, but the approach only works when the plot - what's actually happening - is fun and interesting to watch. Instead, we get scene after poorly acted scene of the women freaking out about their ordeal, being interviewed with electrodes on their temples, undergoing various torturous experiments that are neither scary nor particularly intricate, and being stalked by a robed figure that the producers aped from Hostel. Sound intriguing? Believe me it's not. The film also suffers from taking place (mostly) in a visually dull environment comprised of austere corridors, all of which are lit the exact same way. It gets very tiresome, very fast. Avoid.

I gave this a one because IMDb doesn't offer a zero-option. Less than zero would be closer to the truth.In what at first at least appears to be a bad rip-off of the SAW movies, which weren't that great to start with, we find four women in the situation of being forced together with no memories and a lot of unpleasantness ahead of them.From there it goes downhill. ZERO plot for most of the movie, completely forgettable and unlikeable characters, a HORRIFIC soundtrack that had me reducing the volume to barely audible, and nearly complete predictability. No surprises at all at the end.Thinking of watching this one? Go watch paint dry while pondering your navel. The time spent will be more productive.