Runtime:
99 minutes
Directed
by: Julian Gilbey
Starring:
Melissa George, Alec Newman, Ed Speleers, Kate Magowan, Holly Boyd
From:
Carnaby International
Here's
my return to watching something in the horror/thriller genre, as it's
been awhile. This is a movie I've known of for awhile as various
people on messageboards have plugged it. I just haven't felt like
watching it, until last night. It was on a TMC HD channel so I
figured that was the perfect time for me to check it out. That was a
good decision to see it in HD, as you see quite a bit of real pretty
Scottish scenery. You see, this is a UK movie concerning a band of
mountain climbers who are in Scotland and want to do some hardcore
climbing, but...
They
are about to start climbing when they hear a little girl's voice out
of nowhere, and turns out, a Serbian girl who doesn't speak a word of
English was buried alive in a wooden box but with water and a pipe
for air; they dig her out and soon have to run for their lives as
they are under attack from the people who buried that youngster.
I'll
say that the mountain climbing footage you do see is all well-done,
tense, and exciting. Unfortunately you don't see enough of that. At
least you do have the aforementioned Scottish scenery. The first half
I really enjoyed; besides the area and setting, there are many tense
and exciting moments along with getting to meet the main characters,
including the bad guys.
The
second half, though... things change, and not necessarily for the
better. More characters are introduced, things become real confused
at times (at least for me), the tone and even the setting changes...
and yeah, while there's nice stuff in the second half, overall I
think that sinks things and while I didn't hate the film at all, I
was disappointed with how it turned out as until that point things
were going real well. Even if you didn't want to change any of the
elements in the story, if things would have been made clearer, some
things cut out and maybe not so many characters then I think things
would have been better for sure. But, many people seem to enjoy the
entire film so it's always possible I just have weird tastes. If only I could have rated this as high as I do The Descent.
I'll
be back Friday night.
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