Review #17 of My Horrible Collection: Shocktober list.
Well this was a waste of time.
I try to see the good things in movies. I don't hate torture porn movies. I think Hostel is an important movie in horror movie history. Hell, I like Eli Roth. But this movie feels like they sat together and thought "I wanna kill as many people on screen as possible. Where do I best set that in?" - "How about an earthquake in Chile? Let's put a tsunami in there too. On and how about prisoners breaking loose?"
The beginning is actually a fun party movie a la Eurotrip maybe. They set up (stereotypical) people and you think it leads to something but in the end it does not. One guy is a rich asshole, and that's pretty much his whole character. They even had Eli Roths character just be an awkward jew. If he didn't have problems talking to women he was mentioning that the food wasn't koscher.
They just want you to feel miserable. After the party fun is over they just kill off chracters, bring in new ones, but you never care. It's all about killing off random people and the main crew. Usually there is some sort of gratification, like seeing bad guys die. Nope, don't really get that here. But maybe that's because just like in real life, sometimes there is no gratifiction at a natural disaster. Sometimes no one survives. Maybe that's the real meaning behind this movie... so why is there a Selena Gomez cameo?
All in all this was not a good or enjoyable movie. Some movies are art, maybe not exavtly to have a fun time, but at least they look fun. Other movies are very standard, but are at least entertaining. This movie is neither. Maybe with lots of drinks and a few friends you can play "drink when someone dies" or "drink when someone does something stupid". You'll be hammered quick. I'm rating this movie 1 out of 5 stars.
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