Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker star as ordinary men who find themselves transformed by strange circumstances in "The Experiment". Tempted by a large paycheck, 26 men agree to be divided into prisoners and guards and placed in a mock prison for two weeks--but within a matter of days, these seemingly sane men have turned the mock prison into a sadistic pressure cooker. "The Experiment" is in part a remake of a German film, "Das Experiment", which was inspired by a psychology experiment conducted at Stanford University in 1971--an experiment sometimes cited as demonstrating an innate human capacity for sadism. But despite a strong cast--in addition to solid work from Brody and Whitaker, Clifton Collins Jr. ("Capote") gives a typically strong performance--and some delving into several characters' back-stories, "The Experiment" never quite grabs hold. Still, there are compelling sequences and a creepily effective use of infrared cinematography. Also featuring Maggie Grace ("Lost"), Ethan Cohn ("Gilmore Girls"), Cam Gigandet ("Twilight"), and Fisher Stevens ("Short Circuit"). Directed by Paul Scheuring, the creator of "Prison Break". "--Bret Fetzer"