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I couldn't even properly empathise with the main character played by Brody. Even the presence of two gifted actors (Brody and Withaker) cannot rescue the poor cinematography and awful diluted script.
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It's a pale and poor remake of the brilliant German movie 'Das Experiment', which blew my mind first time I saw it.
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It's as if the title 'The Experiment' refers to Hollywood finally trying to create a remake that surpasses the original. Reviewed by dizfunx 3 / 10 Another crappy USA remake. I feel sorry for the ridiculous reviews from viewers that have not seen "Das Experiment" and are happy watching this silly American crap. The writer and director Paul Scheuring is ridiculous, using sexual premises and sadistic situations freely. The decadent Forest Whitaker is awful, and he should have paid more attention in the acting of Justus Von Dohnanyi in the original film, as the sadistic Berus, instead of using grimaces.
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Hollywood, as usual, made a remake showing how to destroy the German masterpiece. "Das Experiment" is a must-see movie, which will certainly provoke reactions on the viewer. Tense, powerful, having a wonderful screenplay and outstanding direction and performances, it is another great example of how the absolute power corrupts. The German "Das Experiment" is one of the best and most powerful movies of the Twentieth-First Century. Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 1 / 10 How to Destroy a German Masterpiece Under those circumstances, Travis, or the rebellious Prisoner #77, will have to explore his limits. However, devoid of their civil rights and their identities, the volunteers will soon find themselves dragged into a dangerous and volatile situation, as the sadistic warders begin to take extreme pleasure in enforcing their authority. Now, inside a controlled environment, two hand-picked groups of twenty inmates and six guards must follow a simple set of basic rules, while high-tech cameras monitor the entire makeshift jail. Technically it really is something of a masterpiece.For a handsome $1,000-a-day reward, the unemployed pacifist, Travis, decides to take part in a controversial two-week behavioural experiment that will attempt to simulate life within the prison walls. Bear in mind Das Experiment was shot in the days before you could achieve that in two minutes in Motion. Even then it was desaturated almost beyond usability and the process softened the focus massively. I worked on a project that attempted the same look two years ago with 35mm and the only way Technicolor could achieve it, despite all their digital prowess, was to scan the raw neg repeatedly until light degraded the image. *If it wasn't super 16, they did something while scanning, or used deliberately degraded (or just cheap) film. So yeah, the remake was probably better made as a film, and obviously had a 'name' cast, which might make it the superior watch depending on what you're looking for in cinema. Some of the transitions could put Lawrence of Arabia to shame. It was exceptionally well edited as well. He did things with that camera that were absolutely extraordinary, and it's pretty hard to be remotely revolutionary in cinematography on a downgraded format two years after The Matrix was released. The original also had some tremendous care put into it's principal photography - it was shot chronologically, some of the actors used were actually claustrophobic, and I'm pretty sure the Swiss camera genius Klausmann used (s)16mm*, which gave it the indie, grainy look it had. I've not seen the new one, but I'd be amazed to see if they pull off some of the quirks the original had. In this, it can be likened to every other Hollywood remake of European films, ever. In other words, it achieves perhaps two-thirds of the 'point' and one third of the 'soul', but with a dramatically enhanced visual element and a few more zeroes added to the budget. The common consensus among the film-lovers I know (who are surprisingly rare in film-making) is that the remake of The Experiment is fantastic if you've never seen the original.