Compliance

The reason why me and my buddy decided to watch this movie is because it had a decent rating. It has a good rating simply because it's based on a true story... If this was just a movie without a true story behind it you would definitely rate it a 1, 2 at most, because you felt sorry for the girl actress. Poor acting and even worse directing leaves this movie to a very painful 90minutes. Why didn't we turn it off? because we were just too fascinated about the twist in the story and since we were constantly laughing about how ridiculous the dialogues were put together. If the movie would have done a better job in general it could have been a new mild "Irréversible"

This is a Dumb F*****g movie, Anyone with a common sense would realize its just another idiot that doesn't have a life on the other end of the line. If anyone is so gullible to fall for this and actually make someone take off their cloths just because some random ass person on the phone says so, should be put to jail for even cooperating. I wish I could have rated this movie no stars but I had to click on 1 and this one star that I rated should be shoved up the callers ass that Sick minded p***y. Also the fiancé that spanked her and had her do oral sex on him is sick. if I were him I would put a bullet in my head for even thinking that he was doing the right thing. At the end of the movie the manager just blew it off and smiled... that blew my mind and made me want to slap and punch her straight to her yellow teeth. Overall I hated this movie and would not recommend it to anyone. In fact I would burn the original and all the copies so nobody has to see this s****y movie. The End.

I lasted less than halfway through this thing. HOW can people be such idiots? For DECADES, we have had television police procedurals. Common sense should have prevented ANY of this from happening, My walk-away? "GOD, these people vote!"

That movie was dead on for a case that occurred in Kentucky. It also happened to me. I was a college kid working for guess who and had idiotic managers and co workers. I was the only honor graduate. I was certainly the only college student employed at that location. It was an easy job and the people were always nice. I actually enjoyed this job. Then one day all hell broke lose. I still cannot believe what happened to me, I cannot believe my friends were so stupid as to believe that our constitution allowed this. I cannot believe that they did stuff to me except that they were perverts and stupid. Why was this not BIG news? Because this BIG corporation has all the money and power to keep it low profile. They continued trying to pass the buck or blame to others. The problem was that this had been happening a lot and they didn't warn anyone. If they had, none of it would have happened to me. I won a law suit, but haven't seen a cent. Basically, I was told to drop it or they would cost me more in legal fees than I would ever see.

As hard as it will be to believe, this film is very closely based on a real event. A man saying he is a police officer calls a fast food restaurant and gets one of the cashiers brought into the back room by her manager. She is accused of theft and the officer needs the manager to hold her in the room until he can get there. He also needs her to check her purse. And take her phone. And search her pockets. The manager complies and one step at a time things get terribly worse for everyone. This film had potential. The title suggests that we are looking at the idea of compliance with authority figures and, in order to do that, we will use a real situation to investigation why this occurs. Sadly the film doesn't do any of this and instead simply plays out the real incident without much intelligent to say about it other than telling us it happened. There isn't even discussion after the fact because the ending is spent tying up the mystery (such as it is) in a way that doesn't satisfy and seems tacked on. This lack of insight or commentary is a problem but we are still left with a recreation of sorts – and this is at least delivered with a bit of a sense of tension at first. I say at first not because it flops in the second half but because for it this was replaced by something else – a feeling of the film putting me in the same place as the prank caller, and not in a meaningful way. The film pushes the sexual material on us in a way it didn't need to. The lead girl is not plain, but blonde with a great figure and the camera doesn't shame away from letting us see it. Nor does it let her break down as the detective reviewing the video at the end of the film tells us she did (crying and begging), instead it keeps her together so that the viewer doesn't feel pushed away by her raw and shredded emotions. It is a very odd series of decisions and I would like to think they were not deliberate but it is difficult when they line up so effectively. The cast mostly do not explore their situations or reasons and, although they follow events, none of them really gave me much beyond what was on the page. The film does deliver the real events pretty straight but I wondered why it didn't seem to add much to them. There is nothing really in the way of insight or commentary here – the plot plays out and then ends. While doing it though, the film also seems to enjoy the nudity and the sexuality of the lead actress and prevents her from breaking down while also giving her breasts and body plenty of direct line of sight. The film already felt empty and like a missed opportunity – but this just added tawdry to the list.