The Basement (II) (2018)
1/10
Plot seemed interesting but suffered from subpar acting with poor execution
15 September 2018
The movie's first scene sets the tone of the movie - bad acting. It goes into "action" early on without dillydallying but unfortunately instead of being creepy and unsettling it feels just boring and straight-out stupid. The build up falls flat and not even the supposed torturing (which there isn't much of) doesn't save this movie to be worth watching. The gory parts are clearly fake, which is fine with some movies however for this one it just added to "can't do anything right".

When I first read the plot of this I didn't notice the tag-line pointing to 12 personalities but it became clear quite fast. The entire premise of 12 personalities feels extremely inorganic with all the "personalities" being clear roles played up. Any feel of true insanity is nowhere to be seen and leaves much to be desired.

I honestly didn't predict the last moments - but even that was completely ruined by having to literally spell out the situation in case anyone was stupid enough to not catch what was implied.

Don't waste your time, one of the few movies making me wish I could get back the time I spent. While it's not one of the ones I actually dropped watching (which are less than 10 from the abundance of movies I've seen over the years) I was seriously considering turning it off almost halfway through.
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