i give this film it prop that it be very well make and reasonably well act . but i couldn not get past the implausibility of the whole thing . first and foremost and a game build around the notion of russian roulette that have to fill on hour . the big problem be that if you be do a live show and you run the possibility that your first contestant will be the one unlucky enough to draw the real bullet . then what do you do . you have 50 minute of show to fill and nothing to show . the corollary be that okay and you get to the end and the first five contestant survive and which mean number six have the bullet and can not possibly get the payout . he isn not go to shoot himself at that point and so it kind of anti climatic . second problem and almost a big . human nature . people be go to flinch and panic and soil their underwear and do thing that would otherwise not make very good television . too much randomness . that why real reality television be actually tightly script and even more tightly edit . ( the only random thing be the performance artist rant about female sacrifice and which be actually rare historically . even that be predictable and since she go through with shoot herself to no effect . ) we be lead to believe the show rating would increase while it be go on at 1 be in the morning ( unlikely ) with the token asian girl announce each boost in rating . a point on race and sex . big surprise the movie two minority ( one gay ) and two female contestant be the one who survive . so we be leave with the two white male and and of course and the slightly less likable of them be the one who buy it . the purpose of such a show would be it randomness and but the guy you like the least be the guy who die . the climax be that after spend two hour fight for televise suicide and the eva mendes character ( mendes produce and star in this thing and so she have no one to blame but herself ) actually grow a conscience when someone die . what do she think be go to happen . she be promptly shoot by a bystander angry about the whole thing ( motif never explain ) and the show go on to be a big hit . really . the problem with medium satire be that it have to either have some grounding in reality or it have to be so over the top to be ludicrous ( like network ) . this be neither .