Jimmy P's House of Movies

The Experiment is a remake of a German movie that I have no plan on seeing. Not that I don't like German cinema. It's just that I have no faith in this material. If the original is anything like this movie then I have to ask what people saw in it.

This version stars Adrian Brody and Forrest Whitaker as two strangers who are among a bigger group of strangers who decide to answer an ad they saw in the newspaper. The ad is for an experiment that offers the people who participate two weeks of work for $1000 a day. I would have answered this ad too.


The subjects are broken up into two groups, the guards and the prisoners. I forgot to mention that this experiment has something to do with the prison system, but what exactly the experiment is about is anybody's guess.

That's really the problem that I had with the movie. We have no idea why this experiment is going on. There is some stuff at the end of the movie that is supposed to tell us what the experiment was all about, but it really doesn't. We the viewer are left to decide why this was done. What kind of crap is that? We just watched all this shit for nothing?

This movie should have been a scathing statement about how we treat others when given power that we don't normally have, but we already know what would happen. We have seen a lot of documentaries about the human condition so this movie seems pointless.

There is no reason to see this movie. There is very little entertainment value here and we have seen better performances out of these actors in other movies. I hated this movie with every fiber of my being and feel that I wasted precious time watching this movie. Do yourself a favor and pass this one. You will thank me later.