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Claudio Carvalho 2012-05-24 20:47:00

The Others

While navigating to a birthday party of their friend Mo, the motorpleasure yacht of Peter (Justin Baldoni), his girlfriend Liz (JewelStaite), Ira (Marc Bacher), Lauren (Nikki Griffin) and Jake (KellanLutz) wrecks on a rock and the vessel sinks. The castaways reach abeach in the Antilles Islands, and release a distress call to the ownerof the yacht through the radio. However, during the night, Petervanishes leaving a track of blood; Jake threatens Ira and Lauren with apistol and forces the couple to join Liz to seek out Peter in thewoods. Sooner they find that the wild jungle has hostile inhabitantsthat hunt in pack and the survivors are the prey.I saw the trailer of "The Forgotten Ones" a couple of days ago and Iexpected to see a good movie; unfortunately there are many flaws in theplot and I was disappointed. For example, there is no development ofthe five lead characters and it is impossible to feel any empathy forany of them: Peter is an arrogant wolf that cheats Elizabeth, who is ahysterical and impulsive blonde that does not think; Jake is an enviousguy that does not respect his friend Ira, pointing a gun to him; Ira isa silly man and Lauren is a slut. There are stupid attitudes along thestory and Liz is the winner: Liz crashes the radio that might help torescue her; she decides to go into the woods despite Ira's advice touse the raft to seek help; later she goes to the nest of the creaturesto get the raft back and row with a plastic paddle to the open sea.Peter has a wounded leg, but runs like a hell when the creature chaseshim. Jake falls from the top of a tree and has no injuries. My vote isfive.Title (Brazil): "A Tribo" ("The Tribe")

tonyhu 2012-05-24 14:30:04

Pointless. Why Did They Bother?

If you read my reviews you'll see that I'm not one for hyperbole. But,all things considered, this really is one of the worst films I haveever seen.A group of young rich Americans - who have various relationship issuesbetween them - get on a yacht to sail off to a party. The boat sinksand they find themselves stranded on a mysterious island where theymust battle to survive against a tribe of murdering sub-humans.Yes it's all been done before, and there is NOTHING in this film thateven attempts originality. But that's not the main problem. I can'ttell you how bad it is. The relationships between the characters arepoorly developed, the characters themselves are one-dimensional andunsympathetic, the acting is bottom-rate, the plot pointless, thedirection annoying.I usually try not to spoil in my reviews but this film is so bad Idon't want you to waste your time seeing it, so I'll give you anexample: One character is attacked by the creatures and dragged offinto the jungle while he sleeps. He wakes to find his shin-bone brokenand sticking out through his skin (he has noticed none of this as heslept). This kind of injury must surely be one of the most painfulthings possible, yet when he (eventually) notices it he winces asthough he has been stung by a bee, then calmly ties the bone with asplint, gets up and starts walking around seemingly un-perturbed. Laterwe see him running.Characters are seemingly killed off one by one, only to be seen againlater being tortured by the creatures - and then killed anyway. As theplot rambles on, the tribe seems to have some kind of mysteriousagenda, and it turns out they are selective in which humans they kill,but by the time we discover this there is only one human character leftand she has no-one to talk to, so we don't get to know why.Sometimes films are so bad they are actually funny, and they developcult status. That won't happen to this one, because it doesn't evenhave any heart. Even if you like gore, the killings are not all thatbloody so you'll be disappointed on that level too. Overall, by thetime the closing credits roll it really is a relief, and you justwonder: why did they bother?In all my IMDb reviews over the years, I have never given a move a '1'rating before. It seems there's a first time for everything!

Jill 2012-05-17 09:35:11

Stupid people do stupid things

A bunch of pretty, but stupid, people set sail on a ship. First themain character's stupid boyfriend doesn't pay attention to her when shewarns him that the ship is on the wrong course. Then we find out he'scheating on her. Then they crash land on an island in the middle ofnowhere. Then he proposes to her. Then she stupidly says yes. Then abunch of people die. Then she outwits the creatures that killed all herstupid friends but since there's nothing left she decides to inflatethe escape raft that survived the shipwreck, not pack any provisionsand paddle aimlessly out to sea, probably to die.I understand why this film was not deemed good enough to see the lightof day in the US - there is no real meat to the plot. Except all thepretty, stupid people, who are eaten by "the forgotten ones", whosehistory is never adequately revealed. And that could have made for anokay exposition, but instead we get a bunch of crude humor, whichincludes the main character's pants getting ripped off by one of thecreatures, leaving her with only bikini bottoms in which to runBaywatch-like across the beach to her ultimate death sentence.

Carrigon 2012-05-17 07:10:45

Can I Forget This Film?

What a waste of time. The opening sequence takes place in the past andlooks promising. But then...we get to the present. And it all goesdownhill from there.The movie apes a lot of Predator sequences. But it's all a wastebecause the characters are really being chased by some kind of weirdmutated bigfoot ape things.Everyone dies pretty fast, so that too, was a waste.Jewel's character is the only one left standing. And she ridiculouslygoes into Predator fightin mode. I'd say it jumps the shark rightthere.The ending is anticlimactic. And you just kind of sit there like,that's it??? Total waste of time. Jewel did give it her all, though.But sometimes even good acting cannot save a really bad movie.