BA_Harrison
Two very attractive but rather undernourished young women, Stephanie and Ellie (Amber Heard and Odette Yustman), are cycling across Argentina when they run into a spot of bother with some nasty locals who are abducting and transporting female tourists into Paraguay for use in the sex trade.And Soon The Darkness is an Americanised version of Robert Fuest's 1970 British thriller of the same name. I'm okay with that in principle since I imagine the original film hasn't been seen by the vast majority of people, but what I'm not okay with is the inevitable straying from Fuest's film (which was written by Brian 'The Avengers' Clemens and Terry 'Doctor Who' Nation) into typical modern, xenophobic teen horror territory.As the film progresses, the script becomes more and more predictable, and the characters dumber and dumber, making the film about as mediocre as it could possibly be. Director Marcos Efron makes good use of his rural locale, with an abandoned town providing atmosphere, and gets his two hotties into their bikinis, but my advice is, unless you're a big fan of the girls in question, check out the original instead: it also features two fine looking ladies (Michele Dotrice and Pamela Franklin), but is a much better film.
grantss
Two young American women, Stephanie and Ellie (Amber Heard and Odette Annable / Yustman, respectively), are biking through Argentina when one of them is kidnapped.As far as kidnapped-in-a-foreign land thrillers go, this is not bad, though that doesn't say much. Has a reasonable degree of character development, the build-up to the kidnapping-and-search is interesting. However, after that it is pretty much standard thriller fare - plot holes, mostly forgettable action scenes, contrived sequences.Amber Heard and Odette Yustman are OK in the lead roles. Almost as importantly, they look more than OK!Certainly nowhere near being a must-see, but not all bad either.
kosmasp
Which also could be translated into: We'll make sure, you'll be going to sleep in no time. But it would be unfair to judge the movie like that. It does have two of the prettiest leading ladies one can imagine. And Amber Heard has proved she can also act (see Rum Diary and other movies she's done). Even if you don't agree with that statement, you have to agree with Karl Urban bringing some weight into this.But the main interest are our ladies. While it does have some more than decent prospects and it might have actually made sense and worked, it does fall short of the promise it kind of gives. It's a shame, but there is/was a much better movie here, than the one we get. It still is decent, but it could've been better (I guess the script sounded very good).It might be either too complex or too easy, depending on how you look at it. Which almost sounds like an achievement ... it isn't
enriquevirdokolbe
As always,the girl who likes to arouse boys and is not repressed by the actual morals, is abducted and dies. The good girl, pure and brave not only saves her life, also kills the bad kidnappers. But,the scenario is really surrealistic: this film explicit the fact that all happens in Argentina. But, what region of Argentina? First we see scenes filmed in Salta (north), then Cafayate (south of Salta).Near we contemplate a ghost town near a river (there is a sign over the route that says: "Paraná")This river is located hundred of miles of Salta. And the ghost town with a building thas claims: "Matadero" is really on south of Buenos Aires. In the movie,all the places seems to be near each other. Well, the plot is obvious: police is corrupt.People in town does not help the American girls.Natives are bad or indifferent. The good girl, skinny and without experience in fighting,manage to save her life and uses firearms to kill a policeman and other villains. A really spoof.
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