Review of Compliance (2012) by Dave J — 23 Jul 2013

Tuesday, July 23, 2013.

(2012) Compliance.

PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA.

Anyone who "hadn't" read the news, seen the news or basically keep themselves properly informed on whatever what was happening on whatever format they get their news from would be entranced by this film than people such as myself since even before I even saw this movie, I had already seen the ABC 20/20 segment about this beforehand, therefore I was already aware about what to expect and when some of those things were happening asking myself do I really need to watch this as a film and relive all of this all over again when I had already had a reaction when I saw the actual segment.

Movie based on actual events centering on employees working in fast food chains actually believing that an undercover officer or a law enforcer is going to make a phone call (without giving out his proper information for identification) so that their young female employees can perform very degrading acts to relive fantasies made by the unknown caller. Just because the employees must not like working where they're and so forth, that they believing that a cop is at the other end of the line making up false silly accusations that someone had spotted their young female employee stealing customers money when they don't even ask for any kind of ID or anything such as who was accusing them in the first place so that they could confront them. The last time a cop came to my house, he was looking for an address, showed me his badge right away as well as I get to look at his face.

And speaking of which, while I was writing a review for this film I remembered someone making a prank call to me at one time posing as some gov't official except that I recognized the a-hole's voice and I filed a complaint against him since it's illegal to pose as a gov't official. And of course, he denied that he had anything to do with it but was given a warning by the police anyway. I would rather beat his ass, but this guy had a history of suing people for money for assault even though he acts like a total dick because he loves to provoke people to throw the first punch. Anyways, I didn't like this movie since I pretty much knew what was going to happen and ended up fast forwarding while playing much of it instead, and highly respect the viewers who did like it for it's intention was to make others aware that these things happen, except that I had already seen this on an actual segment and know some of the actual people that were involved and to me that is more interesting than watching something that was based on a real life incident.

2 out of 4 stars.