This film should be titled "Colonoscopy" because it's so far up its own arse.
While the cinematography and the film's lead are both gorgeous, this film is so pretentious, full of genre cliches and unnecessarily slow that I lost interest and had to come back twice in order to finish it.
I saw the reviews and thought that perhaps I was missing something and that it gets really good in the last act. Nope. Perhaps our heroine goes about dispatching these nasty guys in really creative ways. Nope. Maybe it will be a very realistic take on the genre. HELL NO. The setup for the antagonists is ham-fisted and clumsy and our lead is not overly smart or capable, which means she should have just died. She's barefoot in the wilderness and doesn't even think to take a dead man's shoes, or his belt or his coat.
If you're weak and stupid, why should I root for you at all? Because you're beautiful? She doesn't deserve the circumstances she's put in, but she was sleeping with a married man. If she was smart, the whole thing was completely avoidable.
I love horror. I love thrillers. I love revenge films. I'm not crazy about rape in films because it really upsets me but I understand it as a plot device. I'm able to suspend my disbelief in the service of an interesting film but when a 105lb woman is impaled through the abdomen by a tree branch, "seals" the wound with a red-hot beer can and then is running around barefoot in the desert with barely a scar to show for it.... it's pushing the limits even if the film were grossly entertaining, which it isn't.
If not for the practical gore effects and stunning camera work, this would be a total snore-fest. Yes, she's a very attractive woman but everything else is way too over-the-top for me and doesn't have anything new to say or take any real risks.
While the cinematography and the film's lead are both gorgeous, this film is so pretentious, full of genre cliches and unnecessarily slow that I lost interest and had to come back twice in order to finish it.
I saw the reviews and thought that perhaps I was missing something and that it gets really good in the last act. Nope. Perhaps our heroine goes about dispatching these nasty guys in really creative ways. Nope. Maybe it will be a very realistic take on the genre. HELL NO. The setup for the antagonists is ham-fisted and clumsy and our lead is not overly smart or capable, which means she should have just died. She's barefoot in the wilderness and doesn't even think to take a dead man's shoes, or his belt or his coat.
If you're weak and stupid, why should I root for you at all? Because you're beautiful? She doesn't deserve the circumstances she's put in, but she was sleeping with a married man. If she was smart, the whole thing was completely avoidable.
I love horror. I love thrillers. I love revenge films. I'm not crazy about rape in films because it really upsets me but I understand it as a plot device. I'm able to suspend my disbelief in the service of an interesting film but when a 105lb woman is impaled through the abdomen by a tree branch, "seals" the wound with a red-hot beer can and then is running around barefoot in the desert with barely a scar to show for it.... it's pushing the limits even if the film were grossly entertaining, which it isn't.
If not for the practical gore effects and stunning camera work, this would be a total snore-fest. Yes, she's a very attractive woman but everything else is way too over-the-top for me and doesn't have anything new to say or take any real risks.