27 December 2005

Wolf Creek, a reaction.

So I saw this Australian flick, Wolf Creek today with Tomika. We purchased tickets for Narnia and decided that we would rater see that in the daytime, so Creek it was.

The movie's about two girls and a guy in their twenties roadtripping across Australia and losing power to their car (and watches) at Wolf Creek, a hiking trail to a huge crater. A rather weird guy offers them a tow to his place (which turns out to be an abandoned mining company) to fix the car. Well, of course, the car never gets towed. And dying just starts happening.

Well, the ending is unorthodox, and that's about all I can say is positively unique about this movie. The beginning of the film is filled with shaky and unnecessary camera shots of mountains, birds and completely random and superfluous exchanges between the characters. That all makes the exposition of the movie last at least an hour.

By the time we got to the suspense part, I was tired of breathing myself and suffering from a motion sickness headache (no lie on that last one). The killing, while bloody, was pretty subpar and looked like a bastardized fusion of Saw and Texas chainsaw (they should sue).

The end was disappointing, when you're an American expecting a good old fashioned horror movie ending.

I was glad that we paid for Narnia. Our money went to, what had to have been, a better show.

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