Diane Ruth
Director Daniel Benmayor's film Paintball is an exceptional motion picture experience of infinite power. The environment he creates is dark, forbidding, and utterly terrifying. The sense of helplessness the characters feel as they fight for their lives with worthless weapons from a game becomes our own in a very personal way as the tension builds. The impersonal, merciless threats that stalk these innocent players is overwhelming and the desperation we feel with them is nearly unendurable. The pace never slackens as they are pursued relentlessly in a nightmare scenario of complete surrealism. It is nothing less than brilliant film making and unlike anything else you are like to encounter on the screen. The shattering climax is heart rendering in its explosiveness and will leave you absolutely stunned and breathless.
Leofwine_draca
PAINTBALL is another attempt at survival horror which reminds one a little of the likes of WILDERNESS although this is far, far worse. It seems to be a British film that was made and filmed in Spain, and despite the presence of British actors in the cast list the whole thing sounds like it was dubbed in post production; the voices feel false and unconnected to the characters.It's an entirely dull effort, one that fails to fulfil the basics like crafting likable characters or indeed setting up much in the way of a story. The tale is about a group of paintballers who find themselves being picked off one by one by a maniac using a real gun. There's little more to it than that, and the whole thing is an excuse to show off some violent effects. Sadly the cinematography has the whole 'greyed out' look to it and the kill scenes are very poor; this is so amateurish that it's not worth watching.
leepowell1985
** possible spoilers ** but to be honest nothing could make this film any worse. the acting is so bad . charters are non existent just the standard stereo type Europeans , only gave it a chance because niel maskell was in it and i got lot of time for him . but his shady American accent was shocking. the thing i didn't understand the most was the fact they were running around with there paintball guns like they would help them .. i just kept thinking there is someone shooting bullets at u drop the toy and f**king run . was beyond stupid . didn't even finish it . could only stand to watch 50 mins. i do like low budget horror but there still has to be something to it, other people have said it on the reviews but its like they just stole all the ideas from other films.just don't waste your time and skip this .. not even a one time watch
wes-connors
A group of eight men and women are secreted to a woodsy location. Let out of a rickety truck, they are revealed to be in a game of "Paintball". Given assigned roles (called positions by a robotic announcer), they expect to be battling against a like team for warrior fun, but it quickly turns deadly. A wobbly camera follows events, which are not as thrilling as promised. Unlike Richard Connell's similar "The Most Dangerous Game", there is very little story here. Another problem is character development; there is none, so it's difficult to care what happens to any of these people you see being followed around by the shaky cameras.** Paintball (4/24/09) Daniel Benmayor ~ Brendan Mackey, Jennifer Matter, Patrick Regis, Iaione Perez
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