manuelveg3 How can there people not be able to overtake one single man?? Really?

lisahampton-99873 It's fun to take this movie a part which I think is why there are so many reviews but let me just say that it's a pretty fun movie to say, "why don't they just.. "That guy isn't the killer..." "Why wasn't anyone watching when the killer set a booby trap? (I think it was trying to be a like Saw movie but the writing couldn't get smart enough and frankly those booby trap movies are boring). In this day and age, I can tell you these three people could easily be my friends, stuck in an ATM after parking so far away because of some weirdo stalking the parking lot, trying to figure out the best way to get out of there and ultimately just wimping out over the strange circumstances and start blaming each other. And with the crazy stories I read in the news daily, the premise really wasn't all that much of a stretch. That said the biggest blunder for me was when the girl died at the end (after we bonded with her) by her head hitting the counter when she fell off the guy's shoulders because her head missed it. I appreciated the ending with giving us some idea about the killer though for the most part it was pretty unsatisfying.

kaianmattmckay To be fair, I saw this after a season of Hannibal, so "ATM" was up against some fairly stiff competition, which it met flaccidly, at best.I've seen that this was apparently made on a $3m budget (and it shows), so perhaps my criticism should take that into account. Nonetheless, I kept thinking this film was a comedy-satire and waiting for the signs of that genre, to no avail.The plot is simplistic bordering on simple-minded, with any semblance of suspense barely managing to limp along in the background. Guys, it's possible to squeeze cheap thrills out of a shoe-string budget, as the Halloween and Friday the 13th franchises have shown. The dialogue is so poor that at several points I had the impression the actors (I use the term loosely) were ad-libbing, and the characters they portray are correspondingly flat, unsympathetic and forgettable, such that you find yourself hoping that the bad guy hurries up and dispatches them all with his crowbar, to put the viewers out of their misery.The cinematography is minimalist. At least, I assume that was the desired effect. It actually just looks amateurish and static, as though the camera crew is frozen to the spot by the same sub-zero temperatures they contrive to have us believe the characters are suffering.Perhaps if the producers understood suspension of disbelief as a courtesy the viewer extends to them, and not as an infinitely exploitable resource that compensates for an offering that can only be described as anemic, then I'd be inclined to be more lenient. As it stands, "ATM" is trite, poorly done by everyone, and ultimately either disappointing or insulting, depending on how low your standards are.

jacklmauro As about a million folks here have made clear, this film really takes the suspension-of-disbelief bit a tad into the next galaxy. Fortunately I only watched it while playing a word game. Which was much more thrilling than ATM. Director. Writer. You are obligated to plausibly account for why 3 people in bitter cold would park a hefty distance away from the ATM, and why the same 3 do not consider running away at any point, which they could easily do. There is ONE unarmed psycho out there (who, by the way, telepathically knows that his 3 imminent victims happen to not have their cell phones on them, which is extremely unlikely but which allows him to murder the comically sacrificial security guard in front of them). I'm actually fine with no explanation of the psycho's motives, although his residence choice (a storage locker) is questionable. Everything else, however, is just plain beyond ridiculous, even down to the police completely ignoring the survivor's desperate attempt to point out the killer, and there were a lot of police. This could have been a good thriller. All it needed was writing that obeyed the most basic laws of physics and probability.