That was an excellent one.
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... View MoreThis is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
... View MoreMostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.
... View MoreA group of annoying American surfers hook up with a couple of locals who take them to an off limits region of the Darien Gap to swim in some magical waters, ignoring the poorly shot on-line video of two guys who go missing there.About an hour into the film we see the creatures with a jerky camera. It is not that this is a strictly hand held film, it was not. It was just shot poorly to give to the effect of something scary that was not really effective. The film lacks characters and dialogue to make the wait worth while.If you liked "Tasmanian Devils" (and not many people did) you might like this one too.Guide: F-bomb (2 languages). Brief Implied sex. No nudity.
... View MoreJust like all the rest of the horror tripe produced over the past 18 or so years, this is a rip-off of a valid horror movie. They lool like the creatures from "The Descent" and even live in a cave. You know what o expect from there... only you actually want to see most of this cast get wasted as painfully as possible. Don't the directors from this new generation of directors know that you're supposed to make the characters sympathetic to the audience? All swagger and no brains. Who actually goes into te woods or a jungle without reaprovisins o at least lighters? Only one is present, and it does little good down in a cave. The only difference with this one is that the creatures are 'outed' online and folks respond. It's still the same plot, same creatues, different country. Had these folks made a fire, things would have gone much diferently. Just a fire... Of course, they make all the same mistakes other horror movies do every single time: they separate even when the body count kicks in. People stand by an scream, run or just try to pull them away while their friends are torn apart, rather than just defend them. Can ANYONE make a decent and well thought out horror movie these days? It IS filmed pretty well, and the director does seem to know what to do with the cameras... just has no clue how to be original or present a story not already done to death. If I were Neil Marshall, I'd be mad as hell...
... View MoreThere are a lot of positives about this film; specifically the way its shot and written, especially in its initial tease of being a found footage film before abandoning that idea, while holding onto some aspects of modern social media to move the plot forward.This film is smart, but perhaps a little too smart for its own good as it ends up cramming in a lot of what it wants its audience to see and understand without much signposting, which can lead to some confusion and overall apathy towards the characters. For instance the film seems to want you to really care that one character owns a restaurant, but I am still not really sure why. It is reminiscent of DeadMary, another smartly written film with a great concept, but takes too long showing you characters to try to make you identify with them and care about what happens to them, whilst somehow not managing to achieve this aim. Instead what could have been laid out in a couple of short and simple scenes in the first five minutes takes around half an hour and by then you have given up actually trying to remember who these people are and what their relationships are to each other.Overall though this is an enjoyable, if slow starting, monster flick that attempts to play with its audience, to at least some success, and is definitely worth a watch for any fan of modern horror.
... View MoreI will admit, I only got half an hour into the film before I had to turn it off and find something else to watch. While the photography is beautiful - the company obviously had a good DP, the cast of characters is entirely unsympathetic and filled with the entire inventory of Film School 101 clichéd, mail-order characters: the charismatic couple with the saccharine, please-get-a-room constant kissy-facing; the pathetic, downtrodden loser hoping to make it big; the unattached but beautiful female friend who serves no real plot purpose; and the drunken, foul- mouthed jerk. The plot is not new: friends go for a coming-of-age, last-gasp vacation and die horribly. With a soundtrack alternating between inaudible dialog and ear-splitting music, and no one whose fate is worth caring about, it's simply un-watchable.
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