Wonderful Movie

An Exercise In Nonsense

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.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Eliza Dushku is in this movie. Sometimes I feel sorry for Eliza, sometimes I believe that Hollywood used her up then threw her aside, and while Hollywood was using her up, she was used hard. Perhaps it contributed to her drinking, she's had a long road back to recovery with each day of sobriety being a gift, Hollywood don't give a sh*t. Hollywood is all like " show us your tits, Eliza!" then a decade later Hollywood is all " You're too old, Eliza!" Why don't you make up your f*cking mind Hollywood? I missed the middle part of the movie so I'm not sure what happens, but I can live with that. I saw the beginning and the last five minutes, I feel like that's enough.

Recently I've read some reviews stating that "Soul Survivors" thought not being very well executed, has a smart and clever story. I don't know what those people consider "good" in this story; you don't get to really understand anything, things happen very randomly. If that wasn't enough, most scenes are VERY VERY predictable; you ALWAYS know what's happening next, just like you always know that a false (and cheap) scare is coming. And worse than that, there isn't one single real scare, they're all fake-- which irritates me very much. I can't say anything about the acting; I watched this flick with some lazy friends who can't stand watching a movie with subtitles, so I had to see this in the dubbed version-- by the way, Brazilian's dubbing is EXTREMELY lame. So that's pretty much it, "Soul Survivors" tries to copy "Urban Legend", "Scream" and other teen thrillers that were successful back in the 90's, but sadly ended up being much worse than those. Not to mention the terrible soundtrack these filmmakers chose. Don't ever waste your time on this mess-- I just don't give it a lower rating because at least they played an awesome Deftones' song in the final credits.

I saw one review saying if your sharp and stay on point you'll get whats going on. Perhaps, but I'm focused and at times this lost me totally, it seems the writers intent was to make sure you had no clue what was happening, perhaps it should come with a script so the actors aren't the only one's who know whats going on.I don't ask for much from a film, a cohesive story that makes some sort of sense and tolerable acting, but when a movie makes it my job somehow to try to figure out what the writer was trying to convey well I just don't find that relaxing or entertaining.Why are people following her, how does this vampire club fit into these straight laced college students life? Gosh this seems like a warm and cozy place to hang out and we totally fit in here.. Really? Good for those who are able to take something away from this movie, all I got out of it was loss of time I won't get back.

I only put a spoiler rating on this review because I will compare it to a movie that may give away the ending for you. I'm not going to tell you what happens. I had heard that this movie was awful. Then I saw the poor rating from IMDb. We were at the store and found this movie in a multi-pack with Frailty (awesome horror movie) and Saw. We decided to watch it and this is what we felt about the movie.Pros: 1. The movie, unlike most teen horror movies, actually required attention and thinking. It had a deep plot. 2. It's one of those movies that draws you in as you try to figure out what is going on. 3. It's not the same old slasher movie of that era. It didn't copy Scream or Urban Legend. Cons: 1. It's practically a rip-off of the classic horror flick "Jacob's Ladder". It basically takes the same plot, waters it down, and then adds college students to it. 2. With the exception of the heroin of the story, most of the characters are very poorly written. I love Eliza Dushku, but her character was insanely far from reality and very poorly written. She did what she could do with the script. 3. The setting was so off. The main character comes from a middle class home yet has an absolutely awesome apartment at a large university that never seems to have more than ten students walking around at a time. The club they went to was so far over the top that I thought this was seriously going to be a vampire movie. 4. After about half an hour, you already know what's happening. It's just trying to figure out who's good and who isn't, that's somewhat difficult. But you figure it out quickly, unless you're brain dead.In conclusion, don't watch this movie unless you're very bored. It may not have been awful, but there are plenty of other good movies out there to watch instead.