The Experiment (2010; Genre: drama, Thriller) Rating : 2.5 / 5 "Experimented but. . . . "

Studio                       Inferno Distribution

                               Magnet Media Productions

                               Natural Selection

                               Tax Credit Finance

Distributed by                   Stage 6 Films

                               Warner Bros.

Directed by                     Paul Scheuring

Release date          21 September 2010

Running time                        96 minutes

Language                                   English

Starring                            Adrien Brody

                                                                                          Forest Whitaker

                                                                                          Fisher Steven

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Brief Synopsis

Several men enrolled in psychological experiment with a reward of $1000 per day for two weeks. The study conducted involve in prisoners and guards scenario. The purpose of experiment is to study human behavior that will relatively change in corresponding to the roles given. However, in order to receive the money, each participants are warned to obey the given rules or the experiment will be stopped and no one will receive the money.

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Review

Character execution is great yet the story seems to be not excited as the title of the movie. I expected more out of the movie. The character building is there, yet the drama element is not fully evolved. It just like serving you a spaghetti without seasoning.  The movie started good but then the plot remains flat along the way without the intention to emphasize  the word "Experiment". Well, "The Experiment" is just another experimental movie with a same premise, same plot and same purpose, or in another words "Nothing excited about it". However, if you are curious, this movie is not bad for you as it adapted from the real experiment in one of the university in US.

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Predators (2010; Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi) Rating: 2 / 5 "Just another hunting story"

Predators? Hearing this word might remind you on Arnold Scwarnegger beating Alien. After the last seqeul of Predators 2. Predators come back again to hunt human being after lost in the space for 20 years.You might called it Predators 3 or Predators return as you like because the setting of the movie is long after the first movie Predators 1. Predators(2010) is a sequel to Predator (1987) and Predator 2 (1990).

Anyway, I would call it Predators Hunting Game. If you asked a gamer, they would say Predators: Expansion Pack. Why? The new Predators is neither boring nor interesting. The movie seems to be made only to entertain the Predators' fans that are hungry for more.

Begins with a free fall of our great actor Adrien Bdrody as Royce and followed by several human beings and some sort of creature thrown in the forest. They later finds out that they are in the Predators Hunting Game. More, what a coincidence or on purpose they are also hunters, "a cruel human hunter with violence history", hence, they are able to use their hunter instinct to hunt back the Predators that is why I would say that the plot is simple, "Hunters VS Hunters".

The movie fail to develop the dark characteristic of each character with a very disappointing twisting character plot at the end that did surprise audience but fail to make the movie so special that it deserve a hand clap. The action element is great and well developed but the drama element just another useless part that is being added to make the movie longer to achieve the length of standard cinema movie. This is largely due to the writer doesn't developed it further hence unable to bring audience to a higher level of the movie. Thus, the movie can be said just another expansion pack of a famous movie.

Overall, the movie is just to pampering the predator fans only. You might leaving the cinema excited about it or regretted it that you have spent a few bucks for that movie.