Opening scene is a guy playing a video game and dying in it, which leads to his death in the same way. Pretty contrived hanging. Afterwards, his friend gets the game and plays it together with his friends. They also begin to die like the characters in their game.
Things happen too quickly in this movie. The kids figure out the game too quick. Reasons why something is happening is given out easily. No mystery or figuring anything out yourself in this movie.
The video game was slapped together just for the movie obviously. This would have been a great marketing tool (and extra bucks) to have made an actual (good) game and sell it in stores.

Thank goodness I seen this at the drive-in with Pirates of the Caribbean.. and that I paid only $5 to see both.

This movie was pretty disappointing to me. It started out great/interesting.. but it just moved way too fast, the effects weren’t all that great, and basically, the actors sucked (including Frankie Muniz) Even my boyfriend was bored with it. I wouldn’t see it again.

Not worth the $9.50 I paid to see it after I let my friend talked me into seeing it last night, but it’d have been worth maybe a matinee price. It was better than I thought it’d be, even though it was still lame overall. Still, I’m a person who can enjoy the cheesiness of the B-movie horror genre so I didn’t mind the lameness all that much.

If you’ve seen the previews and know what the basic plot is – a video game that when played, if you die in it you get killed in real life the same way – then expect to get jsut that kind of movie. The opening scene to me made it seem like it was going to be better than I expected, but as the movie went on it found its way back to being the B-movie it was probably intended to be