Chatroom
In a completely different and exciting story, where that story began with a teenager named William Opens. One day, William opened an online chat room where he met four other teenagers to manipulate them for his own purposes. Things change quite a while later, as William tries to get them to share their secrets and use that knowledge against them, which may be boring by young teens.
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December 24, 2010
Director Hideo "The Ring" Nakata never connects with the script (by Enda Walsh, adapting from his own play).
December 23, 2010
Plausible chills are offset by the film's clumsy youth-movie trimmings, which, through lurid visuals and ripe overacting by its largely unknown cast, drain most of the suspense and interest...
December 27, 2010
Unfortunately the scenes set in the real world (the locations include Camden Lock and the London Zoo) are stilted and unconvincing, while those in the chatrooms become increasingly tedious.
December 22, 2010
The gimmick is so poorly conceived that we spend most of the film converting what we are being shown into what is actually going on. It isn't worth the effort.
December 24, 2010
Pantomimic dialogue, stagey sets and underwritten characters render this instantly obsolescent.
May 20, 2014
Shallow, violent movie could spark teen discussion.
December 24, 2010
A movie of utter, unspeakable, hideous awfulness. A movie that makes you want to prise open your brain and scoop out all memory of having watched it.
December 27, 2010
Nakata - here making his English language debut - fails to drum up much in the way of tension from the plot's hoky attempt to exploit fears about the existence of online suicide clubs.
December 23, 2010
The film finally fizzles into feeble melodrama, with all the power of an old episode of Grange Hill.
December 22, 2010
Poorly written and badly acted, Chatroom squanders its only decent idea early on and rapidly descends into a shallow-minded, lifeless thriller that fails to engage on any level whatsoever.
December 21, 2010
'The Social Network' and 'Catfish' prove there are ripe films to be made on the dark side of web connectivity, but this is the rotten apple of the bunch.
December 23, 2010
There's a great idea here, but this awkward and dated film struggles to bring the cyberspace experience to life in the form of a gritty teen thriller.

