The press notes for the high-concept, single-setting Japanese thriller Exit 8 explain that the film is a “big-screen adaptation of the viral indie video-game sensation.”
Call me old, or a luddite, or maybe both, but I was completely unaware of the game’s existence before sitting down to watch the movie. That’s at once a good and a bad thing: good, because the film’s major plot twists came as a surprise to me, compensating for the lack of interesting characters or a real story; bad, because you probably have to be a fan of the game to love a movie that doesn’t give you much more than the original, even if the filmmakers try to insert more narrative into the action.
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The Bottom Line Probably more fun to play than to watch.
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