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04-23-2006 01:54 PM |
While I wouldn't call it complete crap, I didn't really like it either. It's worth a rent, sure... but don't buy it.
The first half of the movie is boring as hell... but it's boring for a reason. That reason is to make you identify with and have sympathy for the characters. That's a good reason... but it didn't work for me. When the crap hit the fan, I still didn't give a rat's ass about any of them, and as things went on I just wanted them to die so that I could watch something else. I don't know what else they could have done to fix that, all I know is that what they tried to do didn't work.
I will say that there are some very tense moments in this movie. They pulled those off quite well, and some of the 'shocking' scenes are quite entertaining. The violence is quite well done. Whether you'll actually be shocked or not is up to the individual viewer.
But as a whole, it was just another "Crazy Guy Killing People You Don't Care About" movie and was nowhere near the hype that surrounded it.
And to clarify things, despite what you see on the back of the box, the movie is not based on true events. It is INSPIRED by true events. There is a difference. The movie-makers took the actions of an australian serial killer and wove a fictional story around it, using bits and pieces of things that the actual killer really did. But the *story* of what *exactly* happened to the three *specific* people is pure fiction... and so they could have made it as tame or as bloody as they wanted to without being bound by reality. But really, putting three or four more people into this movie just so they could die in new and interesting ways would have only made it worse. Bloodier, yeah... but not any more 'shocking' or 'horrific' than it's already supposed to be.
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