Forest Whitaker is one hell of a brilliant actor, and he proves that here again. He plays the leader of the experimental guards and he does such a good job his scenes are unnerving at times. Brody is great in his role, but the one thing that slowed this film down was how little time this experiment took to become a full blown prison riot movie. Perhaps a slow transition into about day 10 where you begin to have some friction with the rules and a bit of an ego trip. Too quick of a transition.

Brody and Whitaker try to pull it off but the script and direction just isn't taut enough.

The experiment will make you react strongly to the injustice, and thus you feel for the good guys and hate the bad guys. So far so good... BUT the experiment (in the movie) is working a bit too "well", which unfortunately makes it lose most of its credibility. Whitaker is doing a good job, Brody only an okay job. But the latter is probably director Scheuring's fault.

Decent. I only really watched it because it was 2am and I didn't want to sit through Munich. Killed some time, even if it isn't the greatest film.

bearing in mind that this has strong roots in a real experiment conducted by stanford, i highly doubt that any screened experiment like this would turn out with people turning into raving lunatics because of damned role playing game, but they did...

not having seen the original

Everything that was good in the original was ruined beyond repair in the first 30 minutes. It was all downhill from there.

Linguistic EXPERIMENT: How much does the German term "DAS" differ from its English counterpart,"THE"? (Qualitatively, a lot.)

An improvement over the original.

A slightly more polished version of the German attempt. I seem to remember better things about the other version but who knows.

Bounces between being frequently uncomfortable and fairly good, but, wow, its a stretch to believe that 26 mostly sane men would really just unravel like that in 5 days....

das experiment yeterince iyiydi zaten. hiç gerek yoktu.

Passes the time.

Very entertaining movie!! Not a dull moment!

deney, psikolojik deney, cezaevi, mahkum, gardiyan, kural, seker hastasi (Filmi begendim, oldukca akici- bir grup insan günügü 1000 dolar karsiligi cezaevi ortamini simüle eden bir psikolojik deneye katilirlar)

Kind of dumb, but I love Forest Whitaker.

A terrible film that completely misses the point of what's creepy about the experiment, namely that anyone, when put in a position of power could become sadistic, and anyone in a position of weakness could be compliant, by putting characters with already sadistic tendencies in the role of guards and the already elderly or weak in the roles of the prisoners.

Well, as far as I know this version seems to be even more extreme (and with a different outcome), however, it always seems to be difficult to beat the original (2001 movie). Well done by Adrien Brody.

It has more bad moments than good. I like the idea, but its just not a good sign when a movie starring Oscar winners like Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker goes straight to DVD.