AFK: Heroes of Prophecy (2012)

Сюжет кино: the oddly named AFK is yet another indie movie based around a LARP, or Live Action Role Play. Though in this movies case it is presented as a parody with little resemblance actual LARPs.
It tells the tale of a player who discovers his shallow girlfriend has left him for his nemesis at the local LARP event. He is joined by his totally gung-ho buddy who just wants to be a hero at the event for once and divert his dejected friend from watching his former girlfriend constantly sucking face with the arrogant rival.
********** Warning Possible Spoilers Below ************ Things go from depressing to worse when a pair of GMs inadvertently release a demon sorceror from a real fantasy world into the event. The sorceror proceeds to kill and convert unsuspecting players armed with foam weapons into his minions.
The hero and his sidekick rescue a girl from the growing hoard and together they try to warn others of the threat. Eventually the demon sends the players to the fantasy realm where they are tasked with freeing the sleeping goddess from imprisonment. Along they way they have several odd encounters before the final showdown.
Unfortunately the movie does not end with the demons defeat and instead shifts back to another confrontation in the real world where the heroes prove helpless. Here is where sitting through all this falls apart. Instead of a payoff of the heroes defeating the demon once and for all. Instead they are beaten and it is the rival who pulls off the victory and claims the accolades and the girl. Worse off, the girl they rescued who has been romancing the sidekick turns out to be equally shallow and promptly drops him for her boyfriend who left her to die. This after all this. The two heroes get nothing and are still losers. The only bright note is that the hero has regained his sense of fun for the game.
The effects alternate between love outdoor sets and chroma-key backdrops that look like they are from the 80s at times. The acting though is solid at least and everyone plays their roles well. And there are some bemusing jokes along the way. But the movie drags and drags and drags at every turn.
All in all this was a movie that could have been bearable were it not for the very low ending. You do not make people sit through nearly 2 hours of very amateurish effects and comedy and then deny the payoff to kick the dog at the end. and it does not represent actual LARP events well at all, further lessening the whole thing.
Just do yourself a favour and avoid this one.