This could be quite significant if wasn't for its excessive use of clichés, its lack of imagination (the ending being the worst of its kind. Really? Doing all over again?) and lack of appealing things in the story (but the actors are very appealing though). Maybe significant isn't the right word. With proper writers and director this movie could be less insipid and actually become a good work.
So, here's a bored group of young guys and girls playing an old game, a relic from the Spanish Inquisition given to one of those guys. What the game does? It reveals the tragic fate of all of its players unless someone's able to defeat win the game and choose a better destiny. If you thought that it has something to do with change everything, never find the game at all, yep you've won a prize. It's always something like this.
In this mix between "Jumanji" and "Final Destination" the poetic cards of the game reveals strange yet well written things (and in English when the game was from Spain). However, the characters deaths might cause some strangeness such as being killed by a bunch of crabs or hilarious CGI snakes, whose appearance made me think that if a producer don't have enough money to spend with visual effects then don't make the movie at all, that can save the producer and the viewers from the embarrassment. More dopey than that is when the character remembers that her fate was something about being consumed by the fire and next thing she's doing is drown herself in the water. HELP!
"Open Graves" (known here as "The Curse of the Dragonfly") deviates from being a lousy film because Mike Vogel and Eliza Dushku hold the ties in a good way, making of this mess almost enjoyable. If it wasn't for them this could be a total loss.
It's drab - big time! 5/10
So, here's a bored group of young guys and girls playing an old game, a relic from the Spanish Inquisition given to one of those guys. What the game does? It reveals the tragic fate of all of its players unless someone's able to defeat win the game and choose a better destiny. If you thought that it has something to do with change everything, never find the game at all, yep you've won a prize. It's always something like this.
In this mix between "Jumanji" and "Final Destination" the poetic cards of the game reveals strange yet well written things (and in English when the game was from Spain). However, the characters deaths might cause some strangeness such as being killed by a bunch of crabs or hilarious CGI snakes, whose appearance made me think that if a producer don't have enough money to spend with visual effects then don't make the movie at all, that can save the producer and the viewers from the embarrassment. More dopey than that is when the character remembers that her fate was something about being consumed by the fire and next thing she's doing is drown herself in the water. HELP!
"Open Graves" (known here as "The Curse of the Dragonfly") deviates from being a lousy film because Mike Vogel and Eliza Dushku hold the ties in a good way, making of this mess almost enjoyable. If it wasn't for them this could be a total loss.
It's drab - big time! 5/10