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SINGAPORE: Put a bunch of uptight adults in full combat gear, hand them guns and leave them in the forest for two days - it's bound not to end well, as newbie director Daniel Benmayor proves in more ways than one with his horror flick, "Paintball".
Eight strangers from various backgrounds meet at a "paintball retreat", where they hope to escape from their daily grind through a bit of harmless, messy warfare.
Or so they think. It isn't long before they realise they're being hunted by someone with real bullets. They must then fight for their lives in a dangerous game of survival and trust, blah blah blah.
While this tired old route has been travelled many times by horror movie producers, Benmayor somehow manages to make Paintball even more unbearably dull.
Sure, the whizzing bullets and fast-paced action may keep your attention for a while, but you know the film isn't going anywhere special. Who will die next? Who's the mysterious killer with the weird vision? Is there something bigger behind all this?
Gee, I don't really care. And Benmayor doesn't make you either. There's a complete lack of character development and just scene after scene of mindless, insipid gore. Not even the slight twist at the end is able to save this fiasco. As far as movies go, "Paintball" is a definite miss.
- TODAY/sh
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