Naomi Watts and Tim Roth star in this remake of Michael Haneke’s 1997 Austrian-language version.  Haneke is at the helm again, in a tale of a wealthy family at their vacation home being held captive and terrorized by two young adults who seem determined to kill them.  It’s hard for me to go into more detail without giving portions of the plot away.  But I found the entire process to be somewhat generic and obvious.  There are some attempts by Haneke to comment on the violent world we live in, and on the way some believe a generation raised on violent movies, games, and television cannot distinguish between reality and fiction.  Or, to put it another way, some violent criminals (especially younger ones) live their lives as if they are “the star of their own movie” with dangerously egocentric attitudes towards the wel-being of others.  I imagine his earlier version may have succeeded, but this one fails in almost every regard.  I never felt the terror of the family despite the accomplished cast (although Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet were rather good as the psychopaths).  And the major “gimmicks” did nothing for me.  I’m not even sure I recommend this movie as a DVD film…unless you want to discuss the way the film missed the mark, and the overall big-picture topics it did nothing to enlighten you about.  Skip it.