The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Intermedio could have been much better but also much worse. What was actually disappointing about the movie was that it did have potential, but it doesn't live up to it. It does get some redeeming qualities because some of the settings are eerie, the opening is atmospheric in a creepy sense and some of the killings were inventive. The special effects for the ghosts are not that great, but at the same time I have seen much worse. Unfortunately, Intermedio is a movie where there is a movie more bad than good. It is often very murky to look at, with overly-dark lighting, and it is very choppily shot and edited. The sound effects and such are often too obvious and overbear the dialogue a lot. But in regards to the dialogue actually, you're not missing all that much because it is terrible, very stilted and doesn't go anywhere. It also felt very improvised, I commented on another movie recently that the dialogue reminded me of an episode of Ghost Hunters or something, and I got a similar vibe here as well. The characters as a consequence come across as obnoxious and are never developed enough to make us properly care for them. The acting does little to change that either, to sum it up in one word it is rather amateurish, loud panting when running around for example is not really a sign of good acting. But I think it was the story that really dragged Intermedio down, it is very stodgily paced, with nothing in the atmosphere to make the movie truly unsettling and you learn nothing about the ghosts other than that they're tortured predators. It also doesn't know what kind of movie it wants to be, it starts off being a creature horror then as a revenge thriller, these two styles couldn't have been more different and it jarred and dilutes any kind of tension that the opening sequence gave the impression it would. Add to that a contrived ending, and you have overall a jumbled mess with some redeeming values. 4/10 Bethany Cox

Edward Furlong, Cerina Vincent, Amber Benson, and Callard Harris go into an underground tunnel connecting Mexico and the United States to negotiate a drug deal coming in contact with "El Intermedio" ghosts "between worlds" who operate at the power of a vengeful farmer(Steve Railsback)whose son was a victim due to the abuse of drugs. Blood in a vial released by Railsback sends the ghouls hunting for fresh victims. We see that those killed remain as new Intermedio. Murky photography(ugly is more appropriate), inane dialogue(vulgar language isn't always colorful, this movie's a case in point), tacky special effects(particularly the gore murder sequences such as a chain gouging a victim's eye, another getting cut in half by a saw blade), and terrible acting(lots of screaming and bickering has the tendency to strain even the most tolerant of people's nerves)make INTERMEDIO a lost cause. It's not surprising this irredeemable slop was released through THE ASYLUM, and the names in the cast(Railsback, Furlong, Vincent)don't escape unscathed(you wade through the sewer long enough, it's impossible not to get crap on you). For most of the movie, Railsback is shown up close, letting out dabs of blood from a vial, only appearing a bit at the end to drug those who are able to escape the tunnel and inform us as to why he's trying to kill them. Vincent's impressive figure and beautiful breasts can only take a movie so far.

Let's start with the pluses for a change.First up: Cerina Vincent's body. I have no idea if she can act. I've seen her in numerous pictures but none of them has called on her to do more than run about and scream. INTERMEDIO is no exception.Second up: there are some good actors involved, people without tube tops and jiggle.Unfortunately, that's about it. Everything else is painfully derivative. Four kids get trapped in a Mexican town and are menaced by ghosts (or some such nonsense). They run around in tunnels. They run around in abandoned buildings. They run up and down ladders. They scream and pant and hug each other a lot.The ghosts are either CGI blurs or people in glow-in-the-dark skeleton costumes moving in fast motion. The blood effects are goofy in the extreme (looking more like poster paint than spray). And there is some physical scuffling that has to be seen to be believed. My favorite moment? A ghost throws a pickaxe at Cerina and she suddenly demonstrates a Matrix-like move, doubling her body backward to avoid the weapon, then leaps about like a kung fu expert to fight off the villain. Hilarious stuff.That's about it, really. This is another flick with no plot twists and no real sense of purpose (unless you count Cerina's fleeing nudity).

i like Edward furlong i like horror moviesi did not like 'dead and dying'the editing was trying to be clever- without some of it the movie may not have adopted the 'try hard but shite'conclusion that i give it.drugs must have really messed up furlong because some of his previous films like terminator, American history x (highly recommended) and animal factory have shown him as quite an interesting and talented actor. dead and dying does the opposite. his acting is over the top in places and insufficient in others.i am not happy