The Experiment (2010)
This is a remake of the German movie The Experiment (2001) which is based on the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment a psychological test where random people are given roles as guards or prisoners in a prison environment to see how it affects their behaviour. I haven't seen the original so unfortunately can't compare them. I usually always try to see the original first but for some reason I've never come across it yet. Anyway lets focus on this remake. I like the idea of the movie, but I'm not really buying how the behavioural changes are being made. I mean I'm not an expert for sure but some of the stuff is a bit far fetched and thus feels a bit phony. The idea how power corrupts and how people turn to animals when put inside a cage long enough was really interesting, but the way it was handled was way too straight forward without any proper motives. The cast is quite good, but especially Forest Whitaker seems to be on autopilot without even trying to bring any effort into the role. Adrien Brody was not much better and the biggest positive surprise turned out to be Cam Gigandet who actually does a very good job as the scumbag guard. The direction is very straight forward without much finesse to it and the whole movie feels a bit rushed. I mean I get the feeling they didn't really sit down and think what the main idea here is but just thought it sounded cool so let's make a movie of it. That's a shame as the idea had so much more to give than the movie delivers. None the less it was worth watching mostly because of the idea, even though it is kind of wasted, but I'm surely going to hunt down the German version to see if it handled the subject any better.
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