Shame the Devil (2013)

Shame (The Devil) ... this movie had limited release, limited good reviews, and wayyy better script, acting and photography than the "competition" so highly regarded by other reviews. The premise of telling the truth or dying opens an incredible venue of potential and I see nothing this effort fails on! The individuals targeted to Tell The Truth or Die, expose our everyday routine of moral, social and mental weaknesses, failures and consequences often never realized ... until now. The Devil? Hell'va good flick. Again, great photography, directing and acting.

A film that thinks it would be a good idea to copy Saw, then try to copy s7ven (but work through the 10 commandments instead!)Very predictable, very repetitive and absolutely nothing new.From the opening rip off scene to the closing "twist" this film fails to present the viewer with any innovation.I am not sure how I made it to the end. I suppose I wanted to see how they could fit the deaths in associated with the ten commandments. They didn't even manage that!This film would be good if you were playing cliché bingo. You would have a full house after 30 minutes. Lead cop taken off the case and continues to investigate it ... You know the score.Avoid.

I usually enjoy British films, they usually are interesting, clever, witty and well written, 'shame the devil' has none of these attributes. It is classed as horror, sorry I have experienced more horror opening the cupboard and discovering we are getting low on coffee, at one point my wife asked in all sincerity "is it meant to be a comedy?" With most films you have to suspend a bit of logic but with this you need a lobotomy to skip the massive holes in the plot. Why after 7 years does she decide to get back with the most boring man in the world. Who is Victor? Who killed the taxi driver? she was with James and Victor was in London. A British policeman travels across to New York, obtains an illegal gun, breaks in to someone's house, shoots him dead and the New York police do not take him into custody? Lie detectors do not operate in this manner. etc The term wooden is over used but Simon Phillips makes Keanu Reeves look like Orson Welles, he must have been taking direction and being told "look bored senseless in every scene" the dialogue is weird everyone seems to go from 1 to 10 and missing the steps in between. Then we have the continuous flash backs for no apparent reason, then the overused camera flashgun effect. At the end of the film if he had not jumped from the wall there would have been a queue of viewers to help him bring an end to this abysmal offering.

What is it with me the last weeks seeing flicks that i didn't like at all and let this one be filed under that name, a real shame. To be honest, it's the name Doug Bradley that attracted me but face it, he's just the voice that you hear off camera. So don't think that you will see Doug in this flick, you will never will except for a few seconds. The opening of Shame The Devil did ring a bell, did anyone of you geeks has seen the Saw franchise well then you will recognize the rip-off. But okay, I could live with that fact. But once things go wrong it goes awry wrong with this flick. You just couldn't care if someone survives or die or what is going on. While I was attending this flick I picked up a few times the remote to skip or even stop this nonsense. There's no gore or horror to spot after the opening sequence. It's just a lot of blah blah and for the viewer a lot of yawning. Shame the director and sad to say, shame Doug!Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 3/5 Story 1/5 Comedy 0/5