The Experiment 2010
Two fantastic actors together in one small underground movie? With a supporting cast that includes
Maggie Grace of
Lost and the bad actor, pretty boy
Cam Gigandet (
Never Back Down)? How could such a project not be good? The rest is all bad news. It was bad. So bad that this review will be very short. The Director was
Paul Scheuring who worked on like 80 episodes of
Prison Break and
A Man Apart. I can't fault the entire movie on him. Technically it was an adequate, even if low budget, film.
Mostly the movie falls apart on the acting of
Forest Whitaker. Which is sad since I really loved him before this movie and the new
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior. His role in
Platoon (1986) or possibly one of the best examples of modern acting in his portrayal of Ida Amin in
The Last King of Scotland in 2006. He was totally abysmal as a nice, quiet man corrupted by power in the 'experiment' about prisons. His side kicks are equally bad, most notable being Cam Gigandet. He was truly awful.
Adrien Brody (
Splice, The Brothers Bloom, and
The Pianist) does a good job portraying a character that seems designed to be totally moronic, but even the wonderfully talented Brody can't overcome the rest of the cast.
I rarely dislike movies as utterly as I did
The Experiment. This is not my usual rant about a few points on an otherwise good film. I am totally surprised by how bad it was. I would not recommend this film to anyone but a die-hard Adrien Brody fan. Now that is a quick review!
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