Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

cloe22 I was pretty sceptical at the beginning - having no idea what the movie was about, but I understood the humour within 10 minutes. The music also seemed queer at the start, but it finally sets the perfect tone for this movie. I have always been curious about live action role-playing game, I wondered how people can enter their role and leave the outer world behind, separating fantasy from real life. In this movie, you immerse in this universe perfectly. It was really interesting to see characters getting more and more confused between real life and fantasy, especially when fantasy gets real... Now I just hope every LARP week-end doesn't end like this. Congratulations to the wardrobe team on this, you could never imagine they produced this on a low budget. Lightyears from cheap Braveheart rags. DOP is A1, and the locations are perfect. All actors did a great job. What more to say? Watch it now!

tladyrose I have to say, as an all around lover of everything nerdy, I had high hopes for this movie. I really did. I am quite sad to say it failed on almost all points. For one, the main characters were one dimensional and shallow. Lyn went from trying to seduce someone, to running away from Erich, to outright fear for her life, then back to enjoyment in the time span of what couldn't have been more than a few hours. Doesn't make sense to me at all, maybe i'm just missing something. For two, the plot itself was poorly created with almost zero development, surprise or even a story line that made sense. Everything was expected. It was not a "Shakespearean Tragedy" as described, as at no point in the film did the protagonist ever move into the accepting fate portion of said writing style. However, there were quite a few redeeming moments, especially the well placed comedic relief. The SCA chapter (Society for Creative Anachronism and NOT LARP) that they found for a lot of this footage was quite good, especially the actual site, weapons, costumes, even some of the game events that just made up the background. I applaud that.However, my third and final point, as a LARP-er (Live Action Role Player), I burst into tears during the last 25 minutes of this movie and almost turned it off. It is very difficult for a movie to get to me, and I understand that this is fictional, but I have so many issues with this movie it's horrifying and would take up pages. As if we geeks didn't have it hard enough, sure go ahead and portray a completely harmless sport that has spent years and years trying to gain a favorable reputation and toss it out the window. Thanks.

sarastro7 The problem with current cinema in a nutshell: it is considered cool and edgy for movie characters to be constantly irritated, annoyed, offensive and swearing. The problem with this movie in particular: people who engage in live role-playing do so because it's fun. They don't go around constantly using f-words and c-words and taking things too seriously and not seriously enough at the same time, as shown in this movie (I am not a live role-player, but I have friends who are). "Artistic license" it may be, but that doesn't stop it from also being a betrayal of what live role-playing is really like. Yes, a betrayal: some audiences, not knowing how distant this portrayal of it is from the real thing, will be scared away from live role-playing by this movie. It's all but saying that role-playing will lead to uncontrollable violence - a repetition of ignorant, conservative, long out-of-date fears about young people's love for comics, video games and role-playing.I realize the story is trying to take things to a different level; speculating about minor conflicts getting out of hand and turning into deadly serious major ones, and that's fine. There are many good ideas here and very nice directing, but in my view it should have been handled very differently. It just never feels like something that could happen, or like a good representation of live role-playing. Many plot developments seem contrived (like Lyn suddenly getting sick, and the car that won't start), and the way most of the characters hate each other is completely contrary to real live role-playing situations, even though the latter certainly has its share of intrigues and internal politics. But in this movie the characters (esp. Shaman Murtagh) are just not believable. They range from too angry and obnoxious to nastily self-ridiculing. The story itself goes into such extremes that we are asked to suspend our disbelief beyond any bounds of credibility. I wonder which audience this is made for. Is it an attempt to thematize the danger of fantasy being confused with reality? Or is it just an excuse to escalate the pretend-violence into real violence? I, for one, don't think it works.Of course, I'm judging this from how similar it is to real live role-playing. Maybe the writer and director didn't care about that, but wanted to do something different. All right. But people involved in live role-playing are the ones who will mainly and mostly want to see this movie, and therefore one might argue that it ought to be truer to their experience. If the writer and director achieved what they set out to do, good for them. For me, however, this was a disappointment and in bad taste. It should either have been more tasteful (some may not be aware of it, but great drama *is* possible without copious profanity, as any student of literature will know) or much more like a comedy. After all, live role-playing is about fun. This movie undermines and takes away that fun. Maybe it would be an interesting and innovative movie if there already existed twenty movies done in the proper spirit, but since there doesn't, this is not what people who understand live role-playing is looking for.For those like me who may have been disappointed with this movie, I recommend watching All's Faire In Love instead. A similar idea, but done as a comedy, and a very effectively entertaining one.5 out of 10.

Kim W The story follows Erik, who "crashes" a LARP (Live-Action Role Play) camp in order to confront his estranged girlfriend, Lyn. The event is one that is held supposedly once a year, and the other role players are not pleased to have a modern non-player spoil their fun. Things escalate quickly during Erik's stay; acute conflicts arise between the players, and the game soon stops being a game and becomes a nightmarish brawl.The main themes and motifs in the film are prevalent, yet not applied so thickly as to be too artsy and obtrusive to the enjoyment of the story. The most upholding traits to the film are the diverse characters and their realistic relationships with one another--Lyn literally says nothing about what she thinks, and even appears to be non-committal to her own feelings in the way she interacts with other characters. Erik is highly aggravated, brutally honest and unforgiving, yet he genuinely cares for Lyn's wellbeing, even though she shows no sort of reciprocation. And Bjorn, Erik's eccentric brother, is so in love with his Icelandic roots that he embraces the game as his reality, and cannot break the boundary between a time for play and a time for seriousness until it's too late.I found myself trying to guess the next outcome in the string of events, and found that the story was, for the most part, unpredictable in a satisfying way. Just the right amount of popular archetypes were applied to the film to give it a comfortable feel of a typical story while infusing the realistic. Not all characters are heroes or villains, and not all humans see right and wrong in the same way.I would recommend this film to just about anybody who wouldn't mind squirming in their seat, or watching something on the darker side. You won't necessarily feel like you just saw a double rainbow after watching this, but you may be able to walk away with something on the human condition.