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good potential in this movie mostly ruined by amateur filmmaking.
i'm guessing this is an early effort by the people involved here...and lets give them some credit if thats the case. there is, in fact, a lot of good in this movie.
mostly its the story which seems, at least, to be a fresh new idea. maybe its not but it does seem like it. a couple honeymoons in china where the groom was born, he speaks a little of the language but they have help from a guide. driving to the groom's family home the driver becomes 'lost'. he enters a town to 'ask for directions' but then fails to come back. they couple goes looking for him, finds a closed town and animal sacrifices everywhere. they take the car and run, except they find a man in the road who is hurt...and quickly are set upon by creepy ghostly naked bald white men who are trying to kill the man (not the first and definitely not the last plot hole in the movie....so many i won't even bother to remember them all). now the couple are being chased as well (the plot hole here involves the fact that they were brought here specifically to become a sacrifice....so why the extra man?).
thats about the whole story beyond the play by play and the finale.
and its good.
but where it goes wrong and it goes wrong a lot; the plot holes are numerous and obvious leaving you with questions; the acting by the lead characters is sub par; but the worst offender is the awful excuse of camerawork. i'm positive they thought they were being stylish with their focusing (mostly out of focus), hand held camera work (read: constantly shaky), and quick edits (read: shaky and nonsensical flashes of scenes) but in the end its freaking annoying and worse...tedious. if this was filmed straight (use a friggin' tripod occasionally!) the film would be slow. i can take slow. but add annoying and slow together and you try my patience.
worth watching once, but it won't be enough to bring you back.
maybe they'll remake this one day and fix all the problems. then it could be a great film.
(3/10)
3/10
