Monday, September 10, 2012

13 Hours in a Warehouse (2008)

Five guys pull off a heist, but when they exit with the loot, their getaway car has been stolen.  Seriously guys, you didn't leave anyone in the car?  So they resort to a carjacking and take a hostage.

Not a good start, but what makes this more ridiculous is that they say if they didn't take her car, then it would have been the lady behind her.  So... there was a witness.  Why add kidnapping to your robbery?  Now you've got a hostage who knows your faces, names, location of hideout, and plans for the future.

A buyer for the merchandise is meeting them the next morning. So we get a lot of footage of the robbers killing time, sitting around a fire in an oil can, talking, drinking, and listening to music.  As the night goes on, they start to hear strange noises and things start happening.  They discover someone has released the hostage.  Also the warehouse used to be used for snuff films and now something is coming back for revenge.

There are so many problems with this, but one is that our hostage is a random stranger.  We have no idea who she is so there is no emotional investment in her well being.  If you're not rooting for the hostage, there's no tension.  At first I thought she was the woman at the store they robbed, but she was some random woman in a car.

Terrible, but not the worst thing I've ever seen.  The cover is better than the movie, which seems to be a trend nowadays.  The biggest question of the film is where did the ghost get little tables and chairs for the rats?

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