Niamh O'Shaughnessy I watched this with my friend and in all honesty, we gave up with the plot with in the first half and hour/20 minutes because its so boring and predictable. We only continued watching because we found the multiple mistakes entertaining. There was wardrobe mistakes and editing mistakes. There were also special effects even though there was hardly any special effects. They used a lot of filler shots of random people walking around the college, but they kept on re using the exact same shot every now and then. As the days went on in the film, you would keep on seeing the same extra characters in the background wearing the exact same clothes and hairstyles.The acting was dull and just overall poor to be honest - not saying I could do any better (well actually I could of) - it was really hard to stay concentrated and interested because the actors didn't seem interested.

suite92 Twins Jonah and Ella go to an elite prep school (Lebkuchen Haus, which is German for gingerbread house; the only reference to the fairy tale) because Jonah is always getting into fights. This is ridiculous enough that it might be a good enough reason to stop watching the film.Jonah is assigned a room with Charles, who does not get along well with others. Nice. Charles warns Jonah that one either eats or gets eaten at the school. Charles is at the school through scholarship obtained by merit. Jonah is there through influence from his adoptive parents; he was born into a lower social setting. So, Charles has two reasons not to like him.Ella is assigned a room with Kristen, who works on the school paper. Kristen used Google to find out all sorts of information about Ella. Kristen thinks she has a kick-ass story that will blow the lid off the school.In Jonah's first class (held outside; sure), Ms Thomas goes on about Golding's hypothesis that humans naturally reject civilisation whenever possible and descend into savagery. Jonah appears not to be listening, but then again, he's a perfect example of the lesson. When asked about what had been said, though, Jonah summarised it in one sentence.Jonah finds that there are witches at the school, and they invite him to join. They know, somehow, that he has a circular birthmark at the back of his head, just as all of them do. They show him that he can do some unexpected things, and swear him to secrecy.Charles warned of students going missing; he decides to leave before it happens to him. Kristen goes missing; Ella tries to follow her research. She ends up following Jonah, and asks him what he has been up to; Jonah stays quiet about it. Some of Kristen's research involves the coming of European witches to America, and the attempt of the 'Great Witch of the Woods' to rule in the Americas. Despite the fact that many of the followers were put down in Salem, the GWW is still alive and about 400 years old, and has new followers in the Circle. The job of the Circle is to find young souls for the GWW to feast on. The counter current here is the presence of a few who have witch skills but are tasked with killing evil witches; these people would be 'witch slayers.'-----Scores-----Cinematography: 5/10 Amateurish. The re-use of some of the campus stock footage was beyond irritating. Some short clips were each repeated at least ten to twelve times.Sound: 0/10 Fracking hideous. The sound has multiple personalities: (a) pieces of the score sound as if they were made in the 1970s by an out of work composer with a lesser grade synthesizer (b) other pieces are florid, symphonic, and ridiculous for an action film (c) another set of background music is second rate industrial, say late 1990s. Some of the conversations were very badly miked, and sounded noticeably hollow.Acting: 0/10 The leads were dull non-actors who are a huge anchor around the neck of this drowning film. Booboo, in particular, is so poor that it is painful to watch any scene he is in. His attempts to read a sentence from a book were pathetic. Judy Norton and Eric Roberts were wasted. Roberts' slurred speech in the early scenes sounded as if he was recovering from something, and that hair cut was laughable. What was the director thinking? Screenplay: 0/10 Why would an ineffective ruffian (Jonah) be placed in an elite prep school? It's like asking a fish to walk 100 miles in a desert at the height of summer. What were the real reasons that he was admitted? Why would his sister go as well? The answers come late, and were not that interesting when they showed up. The dialog was between sub-standard and just plain bad. The great dramatic moment at the end was a complete dud.SFX: 0/10 Laughable: both uninteresting and not believable. Zero was too high a score.

WritermanAtJustStories Why can we not un-see things? If I could un-see things, this movie would be close to the top of my list. I bought this dreadful piece of work at my local supermarket in error, thinking it was the Gemma Arterton/Jeremy Renner version. It wasn't!!! From the very beginning of this ill conceived mess which I watched with my eldest daughter, I knew we were in for trouble.When they showed the same stock shot to represent a view of two different schools I knew I had wasted my money. We began keeping score of the number of times they used the same shot and realized that they didn't just do it with 1 or 2 shots but 7 or 8, and credibility of the movie fell when they actually re-used one of the shots of Eric Roberts spying on some of the other characters. Whilst on the subject of Mr Roberts, I do hope he is seeing someone for his alcohol problem, although in his defence, if I were presented with this load of twaddle I would need to be comatose, not simply tipsy before agreeing to appear in it.The effects were laughable, acting unbelievably amateurish, the story weak to the point of non-existence, the lighting just bizarre, and the cinematography beyond belief. We did follow the unsung hero with the afro hair who popped up a number of times without ever turning to face the camera or god forbid speak. My daughter was concerned that the one suspense filled scene would be too scary for her. Never fear, even that scene with its five minute build up fell prey to the prince of blandness. We were actually hoping the girl would have something scary happen to her to alleviate the boredom.My daughter was of the opinion that the production company paid more for the creation of the DVD cover (which gave the impression that the movie was actually cool rather than dire) than they did for the entire movie.Please do not waste your money on the this awful mess of a movie.

kwats01 Okm so before i go over the obvious and simply repeat what has already been said, i might mention that this movie isn't even listed in booboo stewarts filmography... tell tale sign maybe.Its awful. Stock cinematic shots, unhealthy pauses, wooden characters, camera angles hellish, full breakdown of plot happened at about 7 minutes. limp. Crew visible in shots, standard continuity not matched... Ella's shirts and hair for one, nails for another. The CGI and "special effects" are abysmal, I've seen better on lower budget movies. Eric Roberts let him self down in a big way, and despite being on screen with his sister, booboo & fivel couldn't have seemed more estranged.Again, like others i bought this in error. and cant advise you all to keep that 83 minutes of your life... cos I'm never getting them back.