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A single mother (Abbi Butler) joins a sick game expecting to win an one-million-dollar prize. She stays alone in a room with a facilitator (James J. Fuertes) that explains the rules to her. In accordance with his information, there is a total of twenty players around the world. The game is composed by five initial rounds, where the players may quit, and will only proceed when three players leave the game. Then there is one last round that must be played until one player survives. The woman accepts the rules and the tense torture game begins. Along the rounds, the woman observes the sick behavior of the facilitator and questions the game. Who will win?

"The Odds" is an extremely low-budget film, with a tense and sick story of torture. Although the theatrical film with basically only one location, the movie is engaging and keeps the attention of the viewer. The performances are excellent, and the conclusion is predictable. But it is for very specific audiences. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): Not Available.

Abbi Butler subjects herself to torture for the chance of winning a million dollars. She is in a room sitting across from a smug James J. Fuertes conducting the game. In between rounds, the couple reveals their lives for film filler. The ending, which I suppose was a twist, was predictable. She is playing against unseen players.

This is basically a two-person drama with one person hurting themselves. Normally in these types of films, someone else causes the pain. Low Budget. The acting wasn't bad for the genre.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

The issues with this were glaring..and it's frustrating because it could've been decent..

1) This was SO on the nose, basically every single line uttered by the woman in the first 30 minutes is to make sure we know she is desperate and at the end of her rope. One emo line after another, to the point in saying "OKAY I GET IT!!" Think of every "I have nothing left to live for" line you've heard... she uses them all!!!

2) You're made to believe for 80% of the film that he's some guy likely from her past, or just a stalker that is doing this for his own fun... the issue with this is... again, they made it SO insanely obvious that it leaves the viewer with only 2 possible outcomes by pushing this hard... A) he is a bad guy from her past... or B) he's not, & the games real and he's just some weirdo that does the game...both outcomes are annoying because it's either too obvious... or they spent too much effort trying to mislead.

3) Holes... okay, so he doesn't actually know her...and the game isn't just based around her. Why then does every round seem to start just when she's set to begin? Why is he acting like such a FREAK?? Why did a grown woman walk into this place, of her own free will, & agree to this game... with absolutely zero guarantee that any of it is real? How is she going to get this money? Does she even get it? How did the bad guy get to do this so many times without anyone ever killing him before.

The actors were both very solid, but the writing was just a joke. She has multiple screws driven through her foot, presumably breaking bones along the way... & has almost no visible pain or issues getting around?

IF they didn't try SO hard to make us believe he was a guy from her past... this could've been way better actually.

"Would you rather" did a better job.

Literally at the top of the DVD Cover it stated just that! And you know what? It wasn't even close! Saw is about victims fighting for survival, this film is just plain torture with a weak watery plot! A weak Splatter Film if you can call it that given the lacking of gore! But a weak attempt nonetheless!

The film follows a woman known only as "The Player" who has entered into a torture Game with other contestants in they all have to endure 6 rounds of torture, each of them featuring different methods with excruciating results all without dropping out so they can win £££ basically! Each of the contestants are situated in different rooms in different parts of the world & each have a Game Master in the room with them! The Player has a man only named "Game Master" helping with the torture & tending to her wounds when each round is over! But as the torture progress The Game master starts to turn nasty & it becomes clear that the game itself is rigged & The Player must try & escape alive!

I found the film to be pretty disappointing! It wasn't really bad, but it wasn't really good either! The torture methods while interesting weren't all that satisfying! Putting a hand over a candle, right foot in a wooden box with a rat, left in a box with screws on top to be screwed into the foot, a head dunk tank, finger tip cutting & Russian Roulette with chopping changing rules! While they were creative & there was some blood, they weren't even close to the standard set by the gore riddled Saw Films!

The fillers in-between the torturing scenes were annoying & obnoxious! Nothing but talk, talk, talk, flashbacks & other scenes which didn't gel well with the film! The ending which was sort of satisfying ended on a pretty flat & unanswered note! Even the part leading up to the end was just getting annoying & pretty stupid!

The actress and the eye candy was great, but the gore, torture methods & film overall sucked badly! The plot was thin, the film dragged (the overloaded dialogue & dragged out filler scenes didn't help!) & the characters weren't likable at all!

3/10

"Saw" For The New Generation my arse!

It's very hard to deliver a compelling film with a minimal cast; the chemistry, performances, and the dialogue have to be of a very high standard.

It probably comes as little surprise that in The Odds, the chemistry, performances, and dialogue are not of that very high standard.

While Abbi Butler turns in a very solid performance as The Player, James Fuertes as the Games Master falls pretty flat. As the film goes on, the sense of one of the two carrying every scene starts to become frustrating.

Between each round of "the game" there are blocks of dialogue between the two, which have the intention (I presume) of making us feel more connected to both characters, and of conveying the stakes of the game. Because of the mis-match in performances though, and combined with quite a generic script, these drag and start to bog the whole film down.

Realistically, in editing they could have dropped probably around 20 minutes and helped the film to stay tighter and better paced, and lost some of the parts which fell flat.

The imbalance in the key performances, combined with the drawn-out pacing and filler, starts to hamper any attempt to build anxiety and tension as the film goes on. There are points where the stakes just feel unimaginably low, and it's hard to care what happens next.

The sense of not really caring about what happens next is largely exacerbated by the fact that the ending is very heavily telegraphed from around the mid-point of the film. In the end, it starts to feel very much like you're just waiting for the inevitable.

Overall, The Odds of finding this film as thrilling or gripping as the producers intented, are very low indeed.