My copy of the dvd showed on its cover a picture of the nightly silhouet of a man with an ax in front of some camping tents. Together with the synopsis this naturally made me think that I was in store for a sinister horror flick. It turned out however as something totally different.
I guess the makers aimed at an intense psychological thriller. But the result looked more like some reality- documentary. Most of the time nothing remotely interesting or eventful happens: we just see seven people sitting in a circle, all the time either humming and meditating, or talking, bickering and looking awkward. That makes for a very long and rather tedious one and a half hour. What doesn't help, is that no-one of the group is in any way special or charismatic or makes you care much. There are some background stories that in the course of the movie surface, but they never go very deep or help to make the characters more sympathetic.
The weird group-leader is by far the most interesting character, but his nagging and aggressive behavior is never explained, and actually quite unrealistic: how on earth can a therapist keep up his practice when he constantly aggravates and humiliates his clientele?
In the last 10 minutes the movie takes a complete turn. It's action at last, but it comes totally out-of the blue and although there is a motivation for it, it seemed to me very much out-of character for the person in question.
All in all, well acted but for the most part too uneventful and tedious to make for an entertaining or involving movie.
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