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I can't help but just want to type "blah blah blah" for the entire review.
This movie was so ridiculous in it's attempt to be legit and hip, that it
is just absolutely terrible. It is just unbelievably boring, the whole
time I was watching it I was debating whether or not I should turn it off.
I decided to stick with it, that way I would be able to write an honest
review.
The worst thing about Soul Survivors, other than it being painstakingly
boring is that it is so reparative. Cassie goes through two stages
in the movie. Stage one is the chase scene. Every fifteen
minutes there seems to be a chase scene. Stage two is the
hallucination. That's it, chase scene, hallucination. Then just when
you think that there is going to be something new, we get, chase scene
followed by a hallucination. BAH!
There were a couple of other things that turned me off from Soul
Survivors as well. One of them being the seizure inducing club
scenes. The club scenes in this movie are awful. They are
comprised of strobe lights, terrible music, and the camera doing back
flips. It is unbelievably annoying, everything is like a video of a
rave stuck on fast forward. The other thing that destroyed any
chances of Soul Survivors being a good movie was it's attempt to have a
surprising twist ending. The truth is that the "twist" ending can be
seen coming after about twenty minutes into the film. Nice try, but it was
too obvious.
The acting wasn't all that great either, Melissa Sagemiller (Cassie)
wasn't doing anything for me. She didn't seem to try to bring her
character any depth, and couldn't get emotional in certain scenes.
Casey Affleck (Sean) also gives a boring performance, mainly because
nothing he said was very convincing to me. Eliza Dushku (Annabel) wasn't
on top of her game either. I know that she has it in her but her
performance just didn't seem very inspired. It's a good thing she is
a pleasure to look at, otherwise I would have been shit out of luck.
Sean Carpenter's directing isn't very eye catching. Overall it
was sloppy, and at times all over the place. I disliked all of the
crazy lighting effects in the hallucination scenes and the scenes in the
club. Also the fast camera movements in key scenes left me rewinding
just so that I could see what I missed.
So Soul Survivors is a pitiful entry into the teen horror genre.
The crummy story line, half assed acting, sloppy directing, and terrible
twist ending (like I didn't see that coming) kill the movie. Go see
Scream or I Know What You Did Last Summer
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