Cringe-inducing torture porn? Yep.
Was it good? It was ok.
Could it have been better? Again, yep.
First of all, the protagonist, Jennifer Hills (Sarah Butler), says she's a novelist looking for a quiet place to work on her new book. She's 25. I thought she appeared more to be a college student studying for an exam. I wasn't terribly impressed with her acting skills, either. I think director Renny Harlin is partially to blame for this as well. The torure/rape scenes are presented fairly well. However, Jennifer's tranistion into madness isn't very clearly defined. On the plus side, they found a nice way to dispose of her cell phone.
After she goes through her transformation from mild-mannered novelist to killing machine, her performance is enough to convince me that she's pissed off and crazy. Just not really pissed off and crazy. And it's a shame because the 4 main antagonists do a great job of displaying individual and believable personalities. What her performance lacks is made up by the creative ways in which she dispatches her adversaries that would give any Saw movie a run for it's money. I would not want to be sheriff Storch!
I rented this from Amazon Instant Video in HD. It didn't really look or sound very HD to me. I should have gotten the SD version.
It was an ok way to spend about 1 hour and 45 minutes. As long as you don't question too many things. But if you DO want to question things, how bout this?
{spoler alert}
How does someone die just from having their eyes pecked out by crows?
Crows eat fish guts?
Why would a crow eat only the eyes and leave the rest of a perfectly good dead face behind?
Where did Jennifer get that car the 2nd time she goes to the gas station?
Is there really only one cop in the whole town?
Where did she get those clothes after they burned everything she had?
How did those clothes fit her so perfectly?
How did she stay so clean after living in the woods for a month?
Why didn't that guy just roll off the planks over the bathtub?
Why does her hair look freshly washed and blow-dried in the final scene?
Why wasn't Camille Keaton given a cameo?!
Final thought: worth renting, not buying.
BEER TIME!!!
