Claudio Carvalho
The name of Nick Stahl, the young cast and the attractive cover of the VHS made me buy and watch this flick, expecting to see a good teen slash movie. What a crap! The full of clichés screenplay, the dialogs and the performances are awful, dreadful, very bad, terrible, horrendous summarizing, a complete waste of time. There is no horror, black humor, only an absolutely boring story, with shameful plot points. The film begins with six characters, indeed three couples, together like a group of friends, but indeed very nasty persons that seems to be enemies, playing a ridiculous senseless game called "Taboo", and with each one of them writing yes or no for certain taboo issues. That is it: no previous development of the characters, the viewer does not know who they are, their motives and relationship. Then, there is an ellipsis to one year later, and the same group is gathered together in a New Years Eve party, insulting each other in a very sordid way. But the plot and the twists are so ridiculous, predictable, mediocre and unbelievable that do not deserve any additional line in my review. One advice only: do not waste your time or money on this garbage, you will certainly regret. My vote is one (awful).Title (Brazil): "Taboo Jogando Com o Assassino" ("Taboo Playing With the Killer")
Prettylittlelie
Wow it's ironic since this movie has been out for awhile I think that someone else JUST reviewed it a couple days ago.Anyways, I watched this movie simply because it has Nick Stahl, for the record.The movie was ridiculous. The characters drove me INSANE, they were SO Cliché and STEREOTYPED. This movie had some of the worst dialogue I have ever heard. It had way too many plot twists too.There is ONE scene in the movie worth seeing however, the scene: "Warm heart, cold gun" where Nick Stahl kills the obnoxious girl in the shower. (Well, actually they were all obnoxious.) But his acting in that scene was excellent. The look on his face, it reminded my of American Psycho (a good movie). The scene is worth seeing but not worth seeing the rest of the movie for, do yourself a favor and don't watch it.
s-mak
The producers love to take the credit for things well done, and slip behind the guise of lack of accountability when movies fail.This movie falls into the latter category. It is an example of what can happen when the producers limit all artistic control of anyone who reports to them. Heck, as stated at Sundance, the director did not even have an opportunity to see the movie after shooting until Sundance! I think this movie should be a lesson to all producers about what not to do:if you hire a director with a history of success, trust them, let them direct. For people aspiring to become directors: learn what can happen if you foresee no artistic freedom under a producer. For movie-goers who love movies, stay away from this one.
Paul_Rudd_has_a_sweet_ass
I watched this film despite reading that it was appaulling for one reason. Mr Stahl. I ended up rather enjoying it despite some of the worst acting I've seen in a long time thanks to January Jones(I've seen bricks that can act better than she can). The ending was a big surprise but then I was pretty drunk at the time I was watching it.... Only really worth watching if you're into one of the actors and you like this kind of film.
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