timothy bane
Eli Roth keeps making poor fiction and, somehow, I keep getting duped into watching his pro-antagonistic crap. There are numerous things wrong with this story. That is not a spoiler. You know that is true before you ever start watching am Eli Roth film. My problem with his story telling is that the bad folks never appropriately suffer for their evil deeds. Final consequence never seems to reach them, while the protagonists drop dead in the worst way imaginable. SPOILER! The murder gang never really dies on film. It can be assumed that they continue to rape, plunder, and murder, long after the last victim dies. In truth, the bad guys suffer no real consequences for being evil. Sure, a few are killed, but most of them are not, plus there is a reasonable possibility the escape the tsunami as well. There are a few film makers who have managed to get a foothold in Hollywood that no amount a consumer frustration can pry loose. Here is a man who might have done very well in another career, but is sadly trapped in the realm of mediocre film making. The whole point of his films seems to be making good people suffer, and I am not talking about the protagonist; I'm talking about you and me.
macpet49-1
Writing and plot suck. We've seen it all before.There is only one reason to watch this--everyone get's their just desserts! This is the only time I've seen all the rotten brat too rich kids get what they deserve and it is fine! Leaves you with that 'great to be alive' feeling. Couldn't happen to nicer people. Why anyone with any sense would go to one of these screwed up So American countries where people have been so psychologically ruined by the church and government for centuries, I do not know!? This is a great ad for 'see America first'. Actually you can find some of these types in the Mid-West and South and all along the Appalachian Trail, so maybe it's better to just stay at home and imagine a trip. Anyway, if you've been cut off by a kid driving a BMW for the umpth time or dissed by a group of youngsters because you're over 30, you need to watch this! It'll make you laugh.
mich-leclair
The film that dares to take the "fun" out of funicular.Three thoroughly detestable young men go on a clubbing spree in Chile. This exposition takes up at least 45 minutes of screen time, much of it set in dance clubs with loud music, flashing lights, booze, drugs, and terrible dancing. The three men reveal themselves to be almost unimaginably repetitive and boring. They meet three sad women. The entire sequence leaves the viewer feeling nauseous and hungover.Then, I guess, the real horror starts. There's an earthquake, and the town goes nutsy koo-koo. Our heroes quickly find themselves out of their depth. What follows is a bro-venture that gets a little sticky, hon. Very difficult to watch.The arc of this film is an arrow shot straight through sludge. The fates of the three dullards are like dung spots on Masonite. Then we're left with the female characters, who are virtually indistinguishable. So bland and undeveloped were the women in this film that I had an extremely hard time figuring out who had been killed and who hadn't. Nor did I care.This film gets 3 stars because Nicolas Martinez is fun to watch.
michelle139
Look I am a fan of crazy movies but this one was a bomb a stinkbomb! Where do I start? The weak plot? The movie was slow but picked up by the time you liked the characters they were dead, raped or smooshed. I was disappointed with this whole thing. Eli Roth needs to stop making these bad movies and wasting two hours of peoples lives with this cat food movies.
AD
