19/12/2009

The Box (2009)

A stranger leaves a package outside a couples front door, the package contains a wooden box with a button protected by a glass dome, locked with a key, plus a note, reading "Mr. Steward will come at 5:00 pm".The following day the stranger arrives and tells the couple that if they open the box with the key he possess they will be given a Million Dollars......but a person they do not know will die.

This story was previously adapted for an episode of the 1980's series of 'The Twilight Zone' and in all honesty the story could be told in 30 minutes.The first half of the film is fairly intriguing but the second half things do get bogged down with sinister Government plots and mysterious shadowy figures.

*****

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