I really don't understand the high ratings for this movie. Lot's of people on forums and movie sites and such consider this to be a must see horror movie. One of the best of its year. I just watched it last night -- I was really excited about it -- and I have to say that it felt like a bunch of half-assed ideas thrown together. It's like Gens thought "I like zombies, The Descent, Texas Chainsaw Massacres and Hostel, I like political commentary, and I hate Nazis... hey let's throw all those things together and make a disjointed, impotent horror flick and hope nobody notices my complete lack of originality while they're busy reading subtitles." I don't think so.
It had its moments, sure, and I didn't HATE the movie. But it was nothing special in anyway. The connection between the political riots and the rest of the movie is weak and makes it completely pointless and distracting. Leave that to other European filmmakers, dude. The Descent-style scene with the two characters crawling through the tunnel and being followed by what seems like a cave creature is out-of-the-blue and becomes nothing at all -- the character eventually goes back into the tunnel after his friend gets nabbed at the opening with no further encounters at all. As a matter of fact, everything related to "the children" (more meaningless political commentary?) is utterly useless. Let's also not ignore that we really don't need more modern takes on The TCM. If you're going to do it, it better be revolutionary. And I gotta say, I'm sick of people constantly using Nazis as the ultimate bad guys. I don't like Nazis but it's just a huge cop-out in my book. Why do they have to be Nazis? What does that add? Absolutely nothing. It's just a reason to remind the audience that historically, Nazis were bad. Thanks for the history lesson, Xavier. Better luck next time.
It had its moments, sure, and I didn't HATE the movie. But it was nothing special in anyway. The connection between the political riots and the rest of the movie is weak and makes it completely pointless and distracting. Leave that to other European filmmakers, dude. The Descent-style scene with the two characters crawling through the tunnel and being followed by what seems like a cave creature is out-of-the-blue and becomes nothing at all -- the character eventually goes back into the tunnel after his friend gets nabbed at the opening with no further encounters at all. As a matter of fact, everything related to "the children" (more meaningless political commentary?) is utterly useless. Let's also not ignore that we really don't need more modern takes on The TCM. If you're going to do it, it better be revolutionary. And I gotta say, I'm sick of people constantly using Nazis as the ultimate bad guys. I don't like Nazis but it's just a huge cop-out in my book. Why do they have to be Nazis? What does that add? Absolutely nothing. It's just a reason to remind the audience that historically, Nazis were bad. Thanks for the history lesson, Xavier. Better luck next time.
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