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Trevor (Justin Kirk), Amber (Terryn Westbrook) and Rob (Sam Rosen) run
an online business where they sell the stuff of recently deceased people
on ebay. While emptying another house on the job, they discover a
mysterious website during their downtime, a website that seems to show a
murderer/terrorist doing his stuff inside his apartment via four different
cameras, displayed in four boxes (hence the title). Mostly there's nothing
exciting going on, but Trevor, Amber and Kirk get glued to their computer
anyways and pretty much forget their work - until of course they find out
that everything that has happened on the website has happened in the house
they're at, and what they have seen was not a live-feed (as they have
thought) , but material recorded about a week ago. They even see
themselves entering the house for the very first time, and find out the
terrorists have only left a few moments prior to this. What's worse, when
our heroes switch over to live feed, they find out one of the terrorists
is still in the house, and before they can do anything about it, he
murders them ... But that's not the truth, everything that has been
happening on the website has actually been staged by Trevor, Amber and
Rob, they took turns playing the terrorist, too, and just wanted to make
money off those voyeuristic enough to watch reality shows on the internet
... and since there are enough of those out there and the show isn't on
live, they see their fanbase growing the more imminent their fake deaths
become - but at the height of their fame, our three heroes accidently gas
themselves for real ... Now this film could have been a clever
comment on society's predeliction for voyeurism, only made all the easier
by the high degree of anonymity granted by the internet - could have been,
but it isn't. Instead the film loses itself in its own conspiracy theories
as well as unimportant subplots while not offering much of an actual story
during much of the running time, and when towards the finale the decisive
plottwist (when everything is revealed to be nothing but fake) turns the
story on its head, the audience has already lost interest, at least to a
point. That this plottwist is displayed less than excitingly doesn't help
much either of course. And truth to be told, I didn't get the ending,
which for me just seems like an emergency exit out of a story that has
already lost in itself ...
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