A weekend getaway takes a dangerous turn when a mysterious nightclub owner known only as 'The Man' introduces a group of friends to a new designer drug.

Stripped of their inhibitions, they start living out their wildest fantasies.

but what starts out as a night of partying quickly turns deadly, as the island paradise turns into a psychedelic nightmare.

Brosnan more or less plays a human version of the snake in the garden of Eden, warning the users to use the titular drug only once. But like Adam and Eve, they choose to ignore his warnings and take the designer drug as many times as they can.

Which turns Urge very urgent for them. Every time the group take more of the drug, we, the audience experience subliminal flashes that may or may not have connotations to the films meaning.

Many have dismissed the film as nothing more than a wannabe cult movie in the making, but there is so much more when you think outside of the box. Why are they there, why does Brosnan supply a drug that can only be used once, but then again, does he have some ulterior motive, using reverse psychology, knowing that they won't heed to his warning?

The cast are nothing special, but they are fine in what they are doing, waking up in strange places wondering how they got there and losing their inhibitions over and over, and a little more severe each time.

But the film has a penchant for using psychedelia to get it's message across. The colours are vibrant and vivid, which makes the character of The Man even more mysterious as he is all in white. Is he the puppet master of the subconscious? The Willy Wonka of the sublime?

The more I think of the film, the more and more I want to see it again and again, to try and get more from it's obscure narrative.

And the fact that it has one of the most out there post credit sequences I've seen in a long time, makes the film more of a curio- so piece.

Destined to have a solid fan base in years to come.

Another so-called thriller about unappealing drug-taking hedonists falling foul of the latest designer drug. Yet another film where we're stuck in the company of a largely repulsive group of characters who get on your nerves before long; the only exception is Ashley Greene who's actually pretty good at times. A cameoing Pierce Brosnan kicks the plot off - eventually - and there's some violence towards the climax, but it's all very passe and you're left wondering why you're supposed to care.

Urge is badly done cautionary tale of living life to an excess. It has a nightclub scene which reminded me of Eyes Wide Shut masked ball scene and it made that movie's laughable soft core scenes look like a work of art.

The film follows a an obnoxious tech millionaire and his cronies flying to an island where they enter an exclusive nightclub. One of them, Jason is invited to meet the mysterious club owner (Pierce Brosnan) who is rather devilish. He gives Jason a drug called Urge that allows people to be uninhibited and urges them to share the drug with his friends but they can only use it once.

Jason seems unaffected by Urge but the others have the time of their lives and they ignore the warnings and try it again. This time they become angry, paranoid and violent as deep seated resentments bubble over. It seems infectious as the whole island have gone off the rails with random acts of extreme violence.

Brosnan pops up now and then with some philosophical advice but the film is incoherent, messy, boring and filled with unlikeable people. The women are sexy and this and at least provide suitable eye candy.