Beta Test (2016)

I must agree with recent reviewers and say that Beta Test is an awful low-budget film. I was also deceived by the positive rating.

A gamer beta tests a new game. However, in reality he is controlling a real person and causing him to break into a real bank. It is an interesting premise, but the execution is a complete miss.

It is not even entertaining from a campy perspective. The dialogue tries hard to sound gamer-like, but it mostly just made me cringe. It seems like non-gamers were writing lines that they think gamers would say.

The people behind the film must have implanted a chip into some people and controlled them to give their film a high rating.

If you are interested in seeing some similar, I recommend checking out the cult-classic film ExistenZ instead.

Fmovies: The movie had an interesting gimmick that was destroyed by some terrible acting and dialogue. The plot was decent, the initial set up and first 30 minutes were even suspenseful. I managed to watch the entire movie, but not without being ejected from my suspension of disbelief more than once. This was not because of a bad script, but because of terrible dialogue and the very bad acting of a few individuals. In particular, Kevon Stover, who reminded me of a poor man's Danny Trejo, was so cringe worthy and distracting that I was unsure whether or not he was added for comic relief. It seemed a waste of some passable d-list actors. I'm sorry, I rated it a 4, below average.

I have seen many awful movies in my lifetime but, I think this one tops them all.

The concept of the movie was well thought out however, the execution had put me into a deep state of disgust. Without giving any spoilers, this is the best I can do to describe this monstrosity that someone decided to call a "movie". All of the downfalls of this movie were in the details and simple concepts that didn't seem to get relayed into the final release. My friends and I had chosen to watch this movie due to it having a fairly good rating and the interesting concept. All we could say when we finished the movie was how we could never get that hour and a half of our life back. All in all, good concept but very amateur execution.

Beta Test fmovies. Summary: Could have been a good movie but it had a very limited budget for an action movie making it very lame and lacking.

This a first person shooter game that mixed with reality. Its not a novel idea but you can get a good movie out of it. The movie had a really good interaction between the gamer and the characters.

FPS means a lot of gun shooting and action scenes but nothing of that happened. The action most of time without gun shooting and focus on hand to hand combat. The action scenes in general is below average just compare it with "Hardcore Henry" you will find a great difference in quality.Instead of the action scenes the movie is full of long conversations which in most of the time useless. This could have been used to make the movie a little bit realistic but it was a wasted opportunity. Most of the time a lot of unrealistic events happens with a lot plot holes.

So in the end I can say that it was a good story and the actors made some good job but the script and the film direction was a great mess. This may be due to limited production budget but in the end it really affected the quality of the movie.

The fact that this movie can get a 6.8 makes me lose faith in IMDBs system.

There is absolutely no way people would genuinely give this movie such a score giving its unbelievably low quality of production and lame pot.

If anyone is looking at the this movie on IMDb, be sure to READ THE REVIEWS, don't just look at the score.

The shots are badly planned, the plot is full of plot holes and the fighting is just so unbearably awful.

Simply look at the score distribution of this movie and you can clearly see how rigged it is.

This movie is one of the worst movie I've seen, if not the worst.

After seeing the rating for this on here (currently at 7.0, although I suspect that will change) I thought that this might actually be really good.

But uhm, let's just say I think the director have a lot of good friends who are kind with their ratings.

It's not completely awful, but it's not that great either.

I've always liked Larenz Tate so it's cool to see him in something new, so there is always that, and he hasn't aged a day in 20 years (he's 41 believe it or not).

He plays a gamer who's been given a beta version of the latest game bound to conquer global fandom, and the plot is decent enough but it's just such a low-budget film and that shows in every aspect of the movie.

First of all the "game" that he's playing looks like it's well over 10 years old, and it simply doesn't make any sense why they couldn't just use real footage in the game scenes instead. Then at least Larenz would have a clear reason to be so blown away by the details in the game.

And the "twist" about the game of course would have made A lot more sense too.

Kevon Stover is one of the bad guys, and his attempts at being so stereotypically tough would make even Hulk Hogan cringe. I suppose that could be intentional to get a bit of 90's video-game feel to the character. But yeah, he's a chippendale appearantly which doesn't come as a surprise at all.

The first hour is still semi-watchable if you manage to look past the flaws but the last 25 minutes is a bit of a drag to say the least.