Release Date:
05/13/2008
The Skinny: A serial killer creates a Web site that kills people. The catch? It hooks victims up to elaborate torture devices that function on site traffic, so the more clicks, the faster the victim dies. It's like a Facebook app, only instead of poking, you're killing, which is a fate much better than being poked. Don't even get us started on the super-poke.
Reminded Us Of Saw 1–5, The Net, The Silence of the Lambs (because it takes place in dark basements), Swordfish (because of all the fake Hollywood hacking), Fear.com (just because that stupid URL title makes us giggle)
The Good: Like Saw, some of the torture methods are brutal and fun to watch. There's also a few genuine insights that ring true, like how everyone online is a heartless asshole. Diane Lane, who plays the main FBI agent, is still hot at 43, and is only made hotter by rattling off tech-nerd speak. :P!
The Bad: It's basically a two-part CSI episode with cursing and extra gore. There are also around 1,000 holes in the story, which are compounded if you have any real knowledge of the Internet. That's why it's worth a rental just for the LOLS, if you know what we're saying. (Uh boy, we need some real friends.)
Vista? Are you Kidding? Microsoft must have offered up tons of cash because Vista is prominently displayed on all the FBI machines. Anyone who's used Vista, and we feel your pain, knows that it's impossible to get those Gadgets to run smoothly, let alone track a supersmart hacker/serial killer. So on second though, maybe using this crappy OS wasn't such a bad idea to keep the FBI a few steps behind.
Best Extra: Sadly, all the featurettes are run-of-the-mill stuff. We wish they had one where they taught us how to get upward of 30 million unique users to your site without doing any legit promotion. If this were true Maxim.com would be killing people on an hourly basis, starting with ourselves. Our CPMs would go thru the roof. Kaithxbai!
Reminded Us Of Saw 1–5, The Net, The Silence of the Lambs (because it takes place in dark basements), Swordfish (because of all the fake Hollywood hacking), Fear.com (just because that stupid URL title makes us giggle)
The Good: Like Saw, some of the torture methods are brutal and fun to watch. There's also a few genuine insights that ring true, like how everyone online is a heartless asshole. Diane Lane, who plays the main FBI agent, is still hot at 43, and is only made hotter by rattling off tech-nerd speak. :P!
The Bad: It's basically a two-part CSI episode with cursing and extra gore. There are also around 1,000 holes in the story, which are compounded if you have any real knowledge of the Internet. That's why it's worth a rental just for the LOLS, if you know what we're saying. (Uh boy, we need some real friends.)
Vista? Are you Kidding? Microsoft must have offered up tons of cash because Vista is prominently displayed on all the FBI machines. Anyone who's used Vista, and we feel your pain, knows that it's impossible to get those Gadgets to run smoothly, let alone track a supersmart hacker/serial killer. So on second though, maybe using this crappy OS wasn't such a bad idea to keep the FBI a few steps behind.
Best Extra: Sadly, all the featurettes are run-of-the-mill stuff. We wish they had one where they taught us how to get upward of 30 million unique users to your site without doing any legit promotion. If this were true Maxim.com would be killing people on an hourly basis, starting with ourselves. Our CPMs would go thru the roof. Kaithxbai!