Brotherhood

BROTHERHOOD (2010) - May 29, 2011
A silly but mostly entertaining film about a fraternity initiation prank gone seriously awry.  It's pretty stupid, though there is something oddly compelling about seeing things just get worse and worse for this group of guys.  Will Canon's direction is passible, if somewhat mediocre -- he over-relies on the old shaky-cam, and he fails to embue the film with the kind of tension that could have elevated it from a passable film to a good one (many scenes which should have been pretty tense fall completely flat).  **1/2