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Less than one star

Ivy | 01/26/2004

(1 out of 5 stars)

"I write this in hope that I can dissuade indie-film loving viewers from renting this. I never negatively criticize a movie and always avoid making objective statements. This movie is bad! The worst movie I have ever seen! I rarely watch big-budget movies, so my opinion is not resulting from lack of appreciation. I love obscure, slow-moving, complicated independent film. This is not any of those. This is a low-budget horror film, without the horror. Or a low-budget porno, without the sex. One more: a low-budget reality show, without the reality. Skip it, by all means!"

Unspeakable

Ivy | 01/04/2004

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Could not have been a worse movie. Horrible, stiff acting; embarassing dialog that made me cringe; not one moment of humor; pointless symbolism (a plate of moldy food on the doorstep...deep, man). Truly the worst movie I've seen in years."

Little to hold my interest

Carol | Plainfield, CT | 05/05/2005

(1 out of 5 stars)

"I had a tremendously difficult time sitting through this movie. There is nothing good I can say about it. It is poorly written, directed and forced upon the unsuspecting audience before you know what hits you.



The plot involves nine friends who get together at a cabin in the woods, "Big Chill" style but minus the style. Then we must endure cheesy dialoge while the movie plods along, unfolding new and uninteresting facts about each relationship as if we cared enough to want to know. The more I learned the less I cared.



It was such a let down that I feel writing this review will somehow make my time spent worthwhile by saving someone else the misery.



Carol



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Disappointing script and acting

Joel M Snyder | Tucson, Arizona | 07/25/2004

(1 out of 5 stars)

"I read other reviews and thought that I would enjoy this, but the movie I found quite disappointing. The acting is weak and the actors unable to really get "into" their characters. I found myself several times thinking 'oh, this is an actor/actress reading lines from a script,' as they made uncharacteristic speechs, or just spoke inconsistently.



The dialogue was generally weak; I didn't feel like the actors were speaking something natural, but they were saying things because the plot required them.



In many places, the movie had too much going on---too many plot elements, too many things---and there was never a sense of resolution. It's like the writer had too much in there and just wanted to get it all into one film, round-robining from one couple/character to the next in order to give everyone their fair chance.



I had the feeling that this movie was made according to a formula someone learned in film school. It was almost theatrical in its scripting, with gratuitous things happening just because you expected them to happen or because the writer wasn't disciplined enough to cut out what was extraneous.



So, I found it disappointing. It wasn't bad, in the sense that you walk out saying "this was awful," but it was bad in the sense that at the end I thought, "hey, I could have spent that time watching a much better movie."



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