XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Jackson Booth-Millard I knew this film was meant to something scary, the title made it obvious would the story would involve, but I had low expectations, because it was rated low by critics, but I was going to give it a chance, directed by Hideo Nakata (Ring, Dark Water). Basically bored teenagers Jim (Matthew Beard), Eva (Imogen Poots), Emily (Game of Thrones' Hannah Murray) and Mo (Get Out's Daniel Kaluuya) meet William (Kick-Ass's Aaron Taylor-Johnson) online. William's charisma seduces them, but he is not what he seems, he is calculating, manipulative and does not have time for people in the real world. Jim is vulnerable and has no idea how dangerous his new friend William really is, Jim confesses he is on anti-depressants, William now knows he has found a victim, he vows to help Jim come of his drugs, and the rest of the group fall in line in their meetings and in the chatroom William creates online. Eva and Mo realise that William is not offering friendly advice, he is playing a deadly game, but it has already begun, and Jim is set on the path of self- destruction and going to do the unthinkable. Eva, Emily and Mo do their best to save Jim, but William chases them across the internet in a game of cat and mouse, shutting down their systems and cutting them off from his victim. William and Jim come face to face in blur between fantasy and reality on the underground, without online security everything has become real, it is a race against time for Jim to be saved, and to stop William, someone will meet their fate. Also starring Megan Dodds as Grace, Game of Thrones' Michelle Fairley as Rosie, The Mimic's Jacob Anderson as Si, Ophelia Lovibond as Charlotte and Richard Madden as Ripley. Taylor-Johnson is alright as the sulky teenage rebel who hates his parents and everyone, the supporting cast of up-and-coming mostly unknowns do okay but overact often, the plot could have been clever, an intimate chatroom created to lure in the most vulnerable people to punish or kill them, but it is done in a predictably dull way, it only has small moments of really dramatic stuff, a disappointing British thriller. Adequate!

livstrongeva One person can have a lot of influence on others. You usually don't believe when people say it, because c'mon – it's just one person and not even an adult, but a teenager! What the hell can he do?? Apparently, a lot.I guess it has to be fair to say, that I have never ever participated in any of the chatrooms. Yes, maybe it is weird to say that for a 20th century person, buuuut… I always was different. Or weird. Call it how you want it. But I am not the subject I wanted to talk about today.We all have problems. Just a few people are living happily without any concerns and those people are not the main characters of this movie. Movie starts of how William creates a chatroom for Chelsea teens (with an exclamation mark!) where they can discuss whatever they want. That ends up discussing about what they hate. And William decides to help these poor teens with their problems. Sounds nice, doesn't it? Well, it would if William didn't have his own motive – to actually sabotage their lives. He wants to be in control, that is why in the beginning he is shown making dolls (like a junior puppeteer). Maybe it's because his parents want to be in control of his life.Well I can't say I particularly liked this movie, but it does show that all of us have different views of life and we want different things in life. Of course, sometimes psychopaths appear and ruin the beautiful picture. Maybe this movie was just created for the message of "Be careful kids, on the Internet". It could be shown in class. But for me, it was a good way of showing how one person can work through others psychology and make them do things they never thought they would.

william (willsgb) The main thing this film does to play with the the role of a chatroom is of course to play out the online conversation in a kind of etch a sketch hotel that the users decorate at will to reflect their personalities and so forth; this is done well, I thought. it filled in the removal of personal contact and body language, for the viewer's sake, and also provided an insight into the tone of each user's thoughts as they got to know each other and then William's plot unfolded. I thought the content and delivery of the dialogue of the online conversations as acted out in the hotel were actually quite reminiscent of the kind of language used in chatrooms, at least from my own experience; The film struck a chord with me because i spent a few years on chatrooms myself as a teenager; I was lucky, in that I avoided any real contact with weird people, or indeed malevolent entities such as William, and eventually met quite a few of the people i got to know well in real life, and struck up some great friendships, many of which continue to this day. however, i only met and talked to people in chatrooms because i had low self-esteem and was depressed and unsure of myself, the anonymity and control provided by a chatroom appealing to me more then less removed and more traditional forms of socialising; i'm sure a lot of people who use chatrooms have such issues and plenty more besides, which were represented by the film's characters; William and Jim were extreme examples, and the fraught, hysterical plot of William's to drive Jim to suicide culminating in that chase through Camden market seemed a little over the top to me. i did appreciate the way that each character's own personal plot and life was almost entirely mutually exclusive to the central plot of their friendship and interaction in the Chelsea teens room, Eva's room etc. a person's online persona, particularly in a chatroom, is a contrived and carefully constructed thing, and it's a very distanced, protective form of interaction, however personal you may get, as the characters did in the film, to devastating effect. I thought the film's disjointed pace and seemingly inconsequential progression, in the first half at least, was a good portrayal of that compartmentalisation of online chat and personal life.in addition to the bedrock of the main plot that emerges, the tragic lonely depressive characters who self-harm and/or seek solace online, meeting with people who display a variety of different responses from supportive to manipulative and cruel, we're also presented with a cross-section of sexual deviance, from the tolerable and acceptable - a hallway Eva walks through to meet William which is filled with people indulging in fetish, and mo talking to that older lady while other people talk dirty in neighbouring rooms - to the disgusting and unacceptable - mo's paedophilic interest in his mate's 11 year old sister, and the pervert whose entry to Chelsea teens prompts William to set up a password.along with the girl who Jim meets early on and from whom he runs away, using the above, the film seeks to establish the consensus that the world of chatrooms is a forum for the disaffected, deviant and personality-disordered to convene, and of course provides a warning about the dangers of such conference by presenting a group of characters so misguided and/or malevolent that their initially beneficial, well-intended, supportive online friendship leads to a life-or-death situation, which yields one casualty, fortunately not the painfully depressive Jim.all in all, i was impressed by this film, which i consider a worthy, well-made, convincingly acted portrait of the world of chatrooms, the freedoms, connections, pitfalls and traps that can result from such interactions and friendships, and ultimately, the value of real social structure, especially for those who aren't entirely comfortable with it and are driven to seek less direct ways of establishing it. i give the film 8/10

waysouthern I can't believe all of the high reviews that people has given this movie. The acting was really good, But the movie was so very drawn out to where it was almost boring.I wanted to turn off the movie several times, But I kept watching it in hopes that it would pick up. But it really never did. I think it would have made a better short film. But that is just my opinion.This movie is NOT a Horror film. So if you are looking for someone to jump out of the closet to scare you, You might want to look else-where.Thats about it with-out going into more details about the movie.