Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
3/4
Most Underrated/Overlooked Horror of Last Decade
Unknown - wrote on 10/28/2013
Some would unfairly categorize this as 'torture porn' because of the nature of the violence, but it is foremost a survival story with slasher elements present. It's less reliant on the usual cliches, as the situation becomes increasingly difficult to escape from. The gore looks believable. It's used effectively to emulate pain and mount fear for the next inevitable bloodshed. The actors are great at portraying the suffering, both from a physical and psychological standpoint. One character's mindset becomes severly broken and this leads to the film's most disturbing scene. Another positive note is the brisk pace and runtime. 'The Ruins' is a quick, gut-wrenting watch that could affect even the most hardened horror fan. Completely underrated!
Rating of
1.5/4
Horrible
Zombified - wrote on 12/28/2009
The Ruins was one of the worst horror movies I've ever seen.
The story was one of the worst I've seen. Let's take a set of ruins, which were hidden by a covered up trail, where some people were quarantined because they touched some vines on the rocks. Then, those vines started to attack at kill them, after mocking the sounds they would make, like a ringing cell phone and yelling. I don't think that any plant could to that realistically, and there was no way they would stay on those ruins, even if people threatened to kill them.
The characters were not very realistic at all. The actors were bland, making the characters on screen seem surreal. Everything about the acting, characters, and their reactions to the problem almost seemed fake and forced as I watched. Some scenes were …
Rating of
1.5/4
The end ruined this entire movie
Josh C - wrote on 07/16/2008
Damnit!! I really wanted to love this film and almost did. Sure it didn't have the greatest actors, the plot was a bit shallow and Carter Smith hasn't really directed a notable film. Still -- I fell for the previews and the original story that looked mysterious.
Throughout the movie I was surprised at the gore but disappointed at the lack of genuine scares. I was still enjoying the movie, that is until the very end.
What the F$#K! It never reached a climax, it just ended. Nothing.... It was going just fine and then it was like a bad episode of Law and Order where it just stops before justice has been served. It desperately needed a climax and I can think of 100 ways to end this film that doesn't involve making the movie into a piece of crap.
So for all the directors out there …
Rating of
2/4
Not Good Enough
Franz Patrick - wrote on 06/29/2008
I really wanted to like this movie a lot more but I couldn't find myself to do so because I ultimately didn't care for the characters. I guess the film should've taken its time to grab a hold of their audiences and establish why they should care for the teenagers instead of just jumping into the unknown and take that risk. Still, there are a lot of creepy and gory scenes that casual moviegoers will enjoy. But if one is looking for a horror film worth discussing for more than thirty minutes, this is not it. For me, the highlight of the film is the goriest scene because it made me wince in so many unimaginable ways. I saw this picture with a few friends and they were absolutely horrified during that scene but I ended up laughing so much afterwards. The cliches made me laugh and some of the …
