Bloodbath and Beyond reviews the movie Pledge directed by Daniel Robbins and starring Zachery Byrd, Phillip Andre Botello, and Zack Weiner. A group of college freshmen pledge an exclusive fraternity but soon realize there's more at stake than they could have ever imagined. Pledge isn't great, but it knows how to work viewers over without forcing them to wallow in complete depravity and it leaves you curious to see what Robbins and.
Penn and Nicholson take risks with the material and elevate the movie to another, unanticipated, haunting level. Another dour, efficient directorial outing for outspoken actor/film maker Sean Penn, "The Pledge" is an everyday tale of. The Pledge is a good film; not brilliant, a tad flawed but pretty good nonetheless.
Penn does try a little too hard to be clever and arty. Check out our Pledge movie review, taking a look at a fratnernity murder thriller that played at the Fantasia Film Festival this year. Movie Review: 'The Pledge'. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. A hazing initiation proves life-threatening for three hapless college guys in this blunt but effective low-budget shocker. Reviewed online, San Francisco, Dec. "Pledge" is a bloody, nervy and lean thriller about "hazing" taken to its logical extreme. If you're OK with torturing somebody so that the "shared experience" will "bond" you to your "brothers," maybe there's a.
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Pledge is like Hostel meets The Skulls, with it leaning more heavily on the wanton torture angle than saying anything of substance about the barbaric practice of fraternity hazing in America. The Pledge received mainly positive reviews from critics. A little girl is found brutally murdered in the woods.
A suspect is apprehended, quickly admits to the crime, and then kills himself. The Pledge questions the motives of Jerry Black - is he unable to give up what he was - a really good cop? Read the Empire Movie review of Pledge, The. Possibly too slow and ambiguous for some tastes, The Pledge is a strangely frightening film that "Understanding the Ultimate Price".