Paintball (2009)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Daniel Benmayor

Writer:

Mario Schoendorff (writer)

Release Date:

10 July 2009 (Spain)

Genre:

Action | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

There's nothing like a brush with death to make you feel alive

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Forest | Game Playing | Hunting | Most Dangerous Game | Helicopter

Cast

Brendan Mackey	...	David
Jennifer Matter	...	Anna
Patrick Regis	...	Eric
Iaione Perez	...	Iris
Neil Maskell	...	Frank
Anna Casas	...	Brenda
Peter Vives Newey	...	John
Claudia Bassols	...	Claudia
Felix Pring	...	Hunter
Joyce Müller	...	Player 1
Joshua Zamrycki	...	Player 2
Josep Seguí	...	Presenter
Lada Rudakova	...	Presenter
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Reg Wilson	...	Client

Runtime:

Spain:90 min (approx.)

Country:

Spain

Language:

English

Color:

Color (35 mm version)

Certification:

Japan:PG12

Filming Locations:

Cataluña, Spain

Company:

Castelao Producciones

Good Idea, Bad Execution

I guess pun intended with the summary line. The idea is really good, but the movie itself isn't. It's a shame, that they couldn't make something out of it. The title gives away a little bit and of course you can imagine, that this won't be a regular Paintball game, that you will watch in this movie.

There are quite a few neat scenes, but especially one gimmick (where the camera uses a filter and therefor the picture you're seeing is "different") that it uses, wears off pretty quickly. Add to that, whiny characters (not all, but too many) and not that many different ones, so you could root for a particular character. It moves along too slow and any tension that gets build up, is destroyed pretty quickly. Some nice (gory) scenes won't help that either (not to mention, that some of them are shot through the aforementioned filter, which is really bad).