Beta Test

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Beta Test

Released Jul 22, 2016

1h 28m

Sci-Fi

Action

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A video game tester makes a disturbing discovery about a new shooting game: the game's events are being mirrored in the real world, and the game's protagonist is actually a real person being remotely controlled.

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Joe Leydon

Variety

A real-world first-person shooter causes mayhem in this preposterous sci-fi action-thriller.

Jul 22, 2016

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Dann Gire

Chicago Daily Herald

Beta Test, directed, written and produced by Nicholas Gyeney, squanders a brilliantly inventive action premise with a comically silly disregard for necessary realism.

Rated: 1.5/4

Jul 21, 2016

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Mike McGranaghan

Aisle Seat

One of the stupidest and most offensive movies I've seen in more than twenty years as a film critic.

Rated: 0.5/4

Jul 20, 2016

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Elias Savada

Film International

In an attempt to meld the pc gaming world with that of modest-budget movie-making, Beta Test doesn't score many points.

Rated: 1.5/5

Jul 11, 2016

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Anastassia H

I love the story line but a lot of the (not video game controlled) fight scenes were either too slow or too unrealistic. I loved all the fight scenes when max is controlling the body! Good amount of gore without going over the top, good amount of empathy evoking - especially when max realizes what's happening. Overall not bad, but not sure I'd watch it again.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/05/25

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Peter B

Very underrated indie throwback to 90s action!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/12/24

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Audience Member

Underrated independent action movie. Calls back to 90s movies

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

It starts strong and does quite a few things to move this genre of film in the right direction. Sadly, it takes just as many missteps and ultimately feels like a complicated, silly mess of a plot.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Audience Member

It’s gamer on a much smaller budget and to be fair to this film it doesn’t do it any worse either

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/22/19

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Claims to have the longest single-shoot fight scene in cinema history. Unfortunately, that's not a compliment. It's the most pointless, illogical part of the whole movie. It's a decent premise and an okay plot, but as the movie becomes more "real world" and less "videogame," the writing and direction actually get more videogammish. This could have been a decent movie--if they hadn't tried to cover weak writing with mediocre, nonsensical action.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Synopsis

A video game tester makes a disturbing discovery about a new shooting game: the game's events are being mirrored in the real world, and the game's protagonist is actually a real person being remotely controlled.

Director: Nicholas Gyeney
Producer: Nicholas Gyeney, Larenz Tate, André Kirkman
Screenwriter: Nicholas Gyeney, André Kirkman
Distributor: Mirror Images Ltd.
Production Co: Mirror Images Ltd.
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 22, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 2, 2016
Runtime: 1h 28m

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