If you don't run, you die.
If you get lapped twice, you die.
If you leave the path, you die.
If you step on the grass, you die.
Only one of you can win.
Eighty people wake to hear those words in their heads, spoken in their own voices. They don't know how they came to this strange place, or who brought them, but within seconds the truth of the warnings has been gruesomely proved, and so they all begin to run.
Of course, fast as they pound around the course, they can't outrun their own questions: why is this happening? How do they get out? How, at the end of it, can they survive?
All good questions, but not necessarily ones that are going to be given particularly good answers, alas. Certainly no positive ones. There's a pretty thoroughly negative view of humanity underpinning events here, to say the least. On the plus side, while I don't think the movie goes anywhere all that interesting in the end - which you could argue is apropos since it is about a bunch of people going in circles - it does manage to tell a couple of reasonably engaging stories about the people caught in this situation. Maybe, if I really worked hard, I could see recommending this as something that is more about the journey than the destination ... but it's kind of an unpleasant journey.
Content warning: scenes of attempted sexual assault
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