Review of Paintball

Paintball (2009)
3/10
The low budget is no excuse for this miserable effort
6 May 2013
Warning: Spoilers
A group of city dwellers go on an adventure weekend and encounter more than paint bullets.

This is a low budget effort and it shows. The acting is amateur and consists mostly of shouting and the plot unfortunately is a cliché ridden mess. The camera-work is appalling as a lot of the time the action is filmed too far away. The premise is reasonable but it just doesn't work as there is absolutely no characterisation at all and therefore very little suspense is built up.

It really is just people running around a forest and being picked off one by one. This can only work if you at least have some inkling of who is being picked off but the outfits the cast wear and the poor quality camera-work mean it could be any of them. Even the deaths are pretty lame.

To be fair once there is one survivor left there is a brief spell towards the end that the film briefly sparks into life and a modicum of suspense is generated. This isn't enough to save the film but does stop it being a total waste of time.

Overall this is a very poor film and can't be recommended unless of course you like people shouting loudly in which case you'll be in heaven with this.
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