Cartoon Character Terrible film. Production values are good, way better than Hart's other TV films or other crappy TV films in general. The digital revolution has really improved things. Cinematography is good. Audio is crisp and clear. From a technical standpoint, this film is flawless. It's the creative part that fails completely.The script is ridiculous. The main story is poor, the subplots are crap, the twist is bad, the ending sucks too. It looks like it was written by a kid in film school, one who will most likely not have a career in cinema.The acting from the cast is weak. Hart herself is guilty of overacting. Maybe drama is not her thing?There are many flaws in the film. Characters are inconsistent, their motives are random. One character's escape plan was to go with one hand (other is broken) and attack a killed armed with a gun (two guns, actually) rather than use the element of surprise and attack him when he returns.People use the word "AIDS medication" and "infected him with AIDS" when they mean HIV. It's fine for a layperson to say it, but not someone who works for a pharmaceutical company.It's not about getting this wrong, but this is a symptom of a script that did not go through many eyes or many filters before becoming film. These mistakes should've been weeded out, but when you add a poor script to bad acting, this film is all weed.The end has a ridiculous moment where the chubby (but still cute) Hart in high- heels wrestles the killer and beats him completely, pins him to the ground and takes his gun. Sure. She mentions being "stupid" in thinking she could walk in a parking lot alone at night and having been sexually assaulted, but in the start of this film that's exactly what she does (alone in the parking lot at night) when she gets kidnapped to be taken to this warehouse.Hart escapes from captivity killing everyone because she does not want her secret to get out. I'm not sure which secret though, murdering the rapist, having a child with a cop (instead of a judge, according to the rumors) or rigging a case as a prosecutor.She kills the captor and the two remaining witnesses and runs away before the police come.Okay... you'd think a lawyer would know that she wouldn't get far. Her DNA is all over the pole. Her name is on the wall (they put it in chalk to figure out the mystery). All the bodies are accounted for except hers. This is a major crime scene and forensics would show that the victims were killed by a short person. The captor was killed too by a missing person whose name is on the wall. Come on.

Leofwine_draca NINE DEAD is a film entirely derivative of one of the SAW sequels in its storyline of a group of nine strangers who are kidnapped and trapped in a room by a mysterious killer. As he promises to kill the group one by one, they must work together to find out why they've been chosen and how they can hope to free themselves from their terrible situation.This is a B-movie through and through, with a premise that naturally evokes tension let down by some very pedestrian execution. When former SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH star Melissa Joan Hart is the best they can do for a big-name star then you know the film is in trouble. Thankfully NINE DEAD avoids going down the 'torture porn' route which is to be commended, but the twists and turns are so resolutely silly that you can't help but be disappointed. The best thing about it? Daniel Baldwin's random, 10 second cameo.

Michael O'Keefe Christopher Shadley directs a pressure cooker full of suspense. Nine strangers wake up in a spacious room, handcuffed to a pole only a few feet apart. These people are arranged in a semi-circle and obviously don't know why. Their capture enters the room and advises them that they all have a connection to each other and until someone figures out how...one of them dies every 10 minutes. One prisoner is an older Asian woman(Lucille Soong)who speaks no English at all. Other captives include a DA's office lawyer(Melissa Joan Hart), a pedophile(Lawrence Turner), an insurance claims adjuster(James Victor), a strip club owner(Chip Bent), a priest(Marc Macaulay), a common their(Edrick Brown), a bartender(John Cates) and a police officer played by William Lee Scott.There are few characters you feel for and plenty you couldn't care less about. The prisoners strain to figure how they should know each other. Chaotic profanity and wild accusations just take up precious time. There is very little redeemable; story is pretty predictable and acting is either horrible or hilariously over-the-top. My message to Hart: did they pay you enough?

pwmartuneac This movie was actually a pretty decent film. Nine strangers who apparently are connected are locked in a room, each with one hand hand- cuffed to a pole, by a masked man who tells them that he will kill one of them every ten minutes until they figure out that connection. And the whole movie is the people revealing their deep, dark secrets and you see just how monstrous these seemingly nice people can be). You have some real tense moments, some frightening moments, and moments of pure confusion. You find yourself right along with these people, desperately trying to make the connection.SPOILER AHEAD. SPOILER AHEAD.However, the fun ends abruptly with literally less than five minutes to go in the movie. The three people who have survived figure our why they're there. As promised, the masked man has informed the police (who are now right outside the building), he will turn himself in, and the survivors are free to go. He hands the key to unlock their handcuffs to the lawyer lady (who, as you see throughout the movie, is the worst monster of them all) who, after freeing herself, kicks their kidnapper in the groin, takes his gun, and shoots him. She then murders the other two survivors, one of whom turns out to be the father of her child, because she doesn't want what she told them to leave that room or else her career would be over. This part makes no sense; she's already a dead woman walking as the masked man had revealed that they had been on camera and it had been streamed for the police. And then, as the police are closing in, she just simply walks out of the building. The last few seconds show her calmly walking down a hallway, taking a right turn, and then it cuts to the credits.This was by far the worst ending to any movie that I have ever even heard of. One, it makes no sense. And two, by this point you absolutely hate this woman and want her to reap the judgement she has sown for herself, but instead she gets away, leaving you with a bad taste in your mouth. They say that you are only as good as your last performance, that that is what you will be remembered for. The same principle applies here, in that the movie was only as good as its last scene, which was a miserable failure. That is why I give this movie 2 stars.