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.

If you're looking for a horror movie where things are hopeless, you've come to the right place.Strengths of this movie are the brutality and darkness of the whole environment. But what really strikes a cord with me is that why watch a horror movie, if everyone just dies at the end? If everyone just dies, what's the use of spending 2 hours of your life in false suspense?If you want a dark movie and want to see likeable charcters meet gruesome fates they really don't deserve: go ahead and watch it!Personally, wish I never watched this movie. Waste of my time. Go watch SAW if you want a decent movie where characters with moral convictions die according to what they deserve....with alot less gore.

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.

Having just watched The Green Inferno, I had quite high expectations for this film with a largely similar cast. The trailer had me gripped, but it seems that the beginning of the film did not, spending a painfully long 30 minutes introducing the scene and characters. Once the earthquake hit, I was expecting to be thrilled...but I guess in comparison to The Green Inferno, I wasn't horrified by anything. Of course, there were a few moments of shock scattered throughout but more in terms of plot line as oppose to gore. It was, for the majority, very dark and uncomfortable to watch, but not in the way I would've liked. This was uncomfortable in the sense that I was so bored, you could say, that I wanted to turn off (but I always see a film through to the end). However, a particular highlight for me was the end scene. I smiled and said 'yessss', as although it was somewhat predictable, the film cleverly misleads you to believe there has been a 'happy' ending. Acting and special FX are good. For a new time gore watcher, this will be right up your street. However, for those experienced, it's nothing from the norm.