Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
A family is attacked by a duo of deranged men.
What was the need for this film? What did it address that hasn’t already been done so better before? Honestly as I am sat here writing this review after having seen it, I struggle to answer either question. There is nothing wrong with a film being gritty when it is in service of something, but here it seems to be done for nothing more than shock value.
A lot of people don’t like films like Hostel as they feel they are over the top, needless and handled in bad taste, well personally I like the Hostel films well enough but I can see all those complaints being true here of this film. It was deeply unpleasant to watch and even more so to finish, it was so bleak, depressing and needless that honestly I struggled to finish it.
I think the thing that makes everything worse is how incredibly predictable it all is. There truly are no surprises here, you know exactly where this film is going throughout, you don’t want it to go there but rather predictably it does and it is unpleasant for doing so.
Overall, this is one of the hardest films I have ever had to sit through.
Pros.
Really nothing
Cons.
It is bleak and depressing
It feels done in bad taste and for shock value
It is incredibly predictable
It has major pacing issues
It is a chore to watch
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