Seven man, unknown to one another, fihd themselves locke up with one another, forced to face their darkest secrets, as they're caught up in a game where the outcome is to either choose one among their ranks to die or unravel the mystery behind their abduction - a ruthless game indeed, but that said, the organisation behind the whole thing, known as the Collective, might have more on their agenda than just physical and mental torture ...

So ok, the concept of strangers seemingly randomly thrown together for a round of torture or two has grown by now a bit long in the tooth. with its most prominent (but by no means first) example being Saw from some 20 years prior. But that said, Catalyst is much more than just the ump-teenth re-telling of the same premise: While starting out on overly familiar territory it really shows its humanitarian side in the third act, reverts the good-vs-evil dichotomy and proves to be more character-based than most movies of its ilk. And the result of all this is pretty cool genre entertaiment, actually.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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