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ATM (Brooks, 2012)
This is the stupidest horror movie I've ever seen in my bloody life.
Some movies have plot holes to make the premise work. But some movies are so terrible they don't even have enough plot to justify their existence. This is one of those cases.
Let me try to break it down. The movie follows three of the stupidest adults to ever grace cinema, who all decide to sit in an ATM booth while a killer outside lurks around and keeps them in there. The killer is always outside, roughly 100-150 feet away. The door to the ATM is unlocked at all times. Instead of, say, running out and scattering, therefore making it completely impossible for him to kill more then one of them, they decide to stay and freeze their butts off. For some reason.
There are in fact many sequences in which they have a very, very good chance to just run out and leave, but they don't take it. In fact, there's a part where David says he's going to run out to his car and get help, but then proceeds to stand there for about 20 seconds until the killer comes up to him from the side. Because the 'plot' demands it I guess.
There's even a sequence later on where they run out to save their friend while the killer is distracted trying to bust down a door in the back. Instead of, like I said, running away, they decide to go back inside again.
The movie then ends with
Honestly, if it weren't for the flaws in the premise, this would have been a decent movie. The acting is decent, the cinematography is good, everything is passable. If it weren't for the bloody premise. It's really frustrating, to see a movie come so close to being decent but fail so spectacularly.
ATM (Brooks, 2012)
This is the stupidest horror movie I've ever seen in my bloody life.
Some movies have plot holes to make the premise work. But some movies are so terrible they don't even have enough plot to justify their existence. This is one of those cases.
Let me try to break it down. The movie follows three of the stupidest adults to ever grace cinema, who all decide to sit in an ATM booth while a killer outside lurks around and keeps them in there. The killer is always outside, roughly 100-150 feet away. The door to the ATM is unlocked at all times. Instead of, say, running out and scattering, therefore making it completely impossible for him to kill more then one of them, they decide to stay and freeze their butts off. For some reason.
There are in fact many sequences in which they have a very, very good chance to just run out and leave, but they don't take it. In fact, there's a part where David says he's going to run out to his car and get help, but then proceeds to stand there for about 20 seconds until the killer comes up to him from the side. Because the 'plot' demands it I guess.
There's even a sequence later on where they run out to save their friend while the killer is distracted trying to bust down a door in the back. Instead of, like I said, running away, they decide to go back inside again.
The movie then ends with
WARNING: "ATM" spoilers below
David being accused of murdering about four people, which somehow means ignoring the crashed car, the burned corpse of a police officer, not to mention ignoring the literal hours of footage they obviously have in which they are sitting inside being scared of something, along with reacting to him killing a lot of people. What.
Honestly, if it weren't for the flaws in the premise, this would have been a decent movie. The acting is decent, the cinematography is good, everything is passable. If it weren't for the bloody premise. It's really frustrating, to see a movie come so close to being decent but fail so spectacularly.