The movie opens up with a young teen girl (played beautifully by Shana Dowdeswell)who has just discovered boys. She has really cool parents as she excitedly chats on her cell to her bff about a boy who looked at her and asked to copy her homework. You can't help but like her then suddenly she is thrust into a room where her parents are tied up by an intruder. The crazed man makes her choose which one of her parents must die, or the whole family dies. Her dad instructs her to choose him, which she does. The intruder also makes our teen do the killing. Cue credits.

The next scene teases us with student reporter Fiona Wagner (Katheryn Winnick)heading for the shower. She is spooked and soon her father, a policeman (Kevin Pollak) is there to calm her down. Her mother was a suicide victim... or was she? She gets an IM about her suicide. Other people in town are having to make sick choices...and in her suicide note her mother mentioned making a choice. The movie, which comes off as a whodunit, shows us a very "clear" silhouette of the mad man's face and we get to clearly hear his voice, although we never get introduced to his character.

Unfortunately the movie lacks giving us clues and the end comes off as a bit bizarre. Katheryn Winnick does her best to salvage a script that needed work. Kevin Pollack seemed to just be going through the motions.

The act of violence is not graphically shown, but rather we see the results.

No sex, no nudity, rare f-bomb.

Is it clever writing or just another Saw rip-off? Is it disgusting or necessary to move the story and the central idea forward? Can you stomach it or would you rather see a more philosophical approach to the whole "choosing" game (psychologically it is interesting)? Can the movie do justice to the central idea or not?

These are all legitimate questions, that have to be answered. But as with other movies that are trying to ask those things, the answers will mostly be lying on your side and your taste. There is another question though too: Do you care or do you just want to be thrilled/scared/entertained? The viewers who wish the latter will take more from the movie of course. But have to endure weak acting and a weak script.

I was at a film convention the other day where there were a lot of DVDs for sale; I chose Choose. I didn't choose Choose because I thought it was going to be innovative and fresh (I could tell it was going to be a weak derivative of Saw, and it was); my choice wasn't based on reviews or word of mouth (I hadn't even heard of the film before then). No, Choose was chosen for one reason only: Katherine Winnick was in it. Katherine Winnick, the 'renaissance slut' sister from Satan's Little Helper. That Katherine Winnick.

Sadly, Katherine's presence alone is not enough to make this worth watching, director Marcus Graves going through the 'torture porn' motions but failing to deliver what audiences really expect. Not only is there very little worthwhile gore but Winnick's character takes two showers and a bath amidst all the screaming and bloodletting, but is only seen through a heavy plastic shower curtain and submerged shoulders-deep in a tub full of bubbles. Certainly not what most horror fans would opt for given the choice.