The Institute

2012

Crime / Documentary / Mystery / Sci-Fi

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 71% · 17 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 63% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 1492 1.5K

Director

Top cast

Chelsea London Lloyd as Beth Foley
Tracy Pfau as Jejune Operator
Jeff Hull as Creator
Arye Bender as Octavio Coleman Esq
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828.39 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 2
1.5 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by cherold 5 / 10

too cute by half

Like a lot of people, I watched this after the terrific tv series dispatches from elsewhere.This is presumably a documentary about the real-life alternate reality game that inspired the series. And at first, it's pretty interesting, as it interviews participants and creators.When I read user reviews, they would complain it wasn't a real documentary, and at first I thought they were being too demanding. I thought, maybe it's fudging things a bit, since it's made by people involved in teh ARG, but it still seemed reasonable.But as it goes along, this blurring of the real and the illusion, while true, I suppose, to the spirit of the ARG, means that this fails as a documentary because you don't feel you've really learned much. But it also fails as fiction, because much of it is incredibly boring.Ultimately, this is just a really self-indulgent film that fails on multiple levels. Which is a shame, because I think something interesting could have been made out of the experience. But then, I guess that's what dispatches from elsewhere was - the interesting thing they finally got out of the event.
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Reviewed by Pukeonthestreet 7 / 10

Interesting but not really just a documentary

After watching dispatches from elsewhere I had to see this. It's just as interesting except there's a point where you see the director at the check in table and that's when you know this isn't just a documentary it's heavily manipulated and he was in on it. Still an interesting watch though.

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