The Green Inferno
I'm going to break my review down into a few sections. I'm writing my review as a film student but not trying to say I'm an expert in anyway. I don't like to leave reviews on films I found to be awful but after watching The Green Inferno I feel like I have to.
Synopsis:
A group of college students (activists) travel to the Amazon to save the rain forest and find themselves battling to save their own lives.
Acting:
Immediately, the acting was poor. I don't know what type of college the writers went to or are trying to model their story after, but I have never seen college students act like that. It seemed too unnatural. My friends along with myself kept pointing out how the acting didn't seem natural and that the actors were not very good. Throughout the movie however the acting did get better. So that's an upside I suppose.
Directing:
I felt like I was watching a movie that didn't have a director. What I mean by this is that it appeared as a movie that had someone running around with a camera shooting actors who have never acted before. I felt like the director didn't care about his movie at all.
Cinematography:
The visual experience was far from enjoyable. There is one particular shot that I'd like to talk about. There was a scene in which the actors were talking about something on the side of the river. Clearly something I was supposed to see. The camera shake was so intense that I couldn't even see what they were talking about. I'm sure it was some type of jungle cat but not really sure. The overused camera shake was throughout the entire movie.
Editing:
It looked as if they didn't have it in the budget to have the film color graded. Looked like the entire thing was shot on a cheap dslr and edited in iMovie.
Story:
The story would have been fine if it weren't for the following, the scene where Alejandro was masturbating in the cage, the scene where the tribe were high off of a small amount of Marijuana cooked within a body, and pretty much every death scene was bad.
I have never felt like leaving a movie theater early until watching The Green Inferno. I had to force myself to stay until the end simply because I paid to watch it. I like to watch movies whether they be great films or terrible movies. The Green Inferno goes to the top of my terrible list. I do not recommend this movie to anyone.
I'm going to break my review down into a few sections. I'm writing my review as a film student but not trying to say I'm an expert in anyway. I don't like to leave reviews on films I found to be awful but after watching The Green Inferno I feel like I have to.
Synopsis:
A group of college students (activists) travel to the Amazon to save the rain forest and find themselves battling to save their own lives.
Acting:
Immediately, the acting was poor. I don't know what type of college the writers went to or are trying to model their story after, but I have never seen college students act like that. It seemed too unnatural. My friends along with myself kept pointing out how the acting didn't seem natural and that the actors were not very good. Throughout the movie however the acting did get better. So that's an upside I suppose.
Directing:
I felt like I was watching a movie that didn't have a director. What I mean by this is that it appeared as a movie that had someone running around with a camera shooting actors who have never acted before. I felt like the director didn't care about his movie at all.
Cinematography:
The visual experience was far from enjoyable. There is one particular shot that I'd like to talk about. There was a scene in which the actors were talking about something on the side of the river. Clearly something I was supposed to see. The camera shake was so intense that I couldn't even see what they were talking about. I'm sure it was some type of jungle cat but not really sure. The overused camera shake was throughout the entire movie.
Editing:
It looked as if they didn't have it in the budget to have the film color graded. Looked like the entire thing was shot on a cheap dslr and edited in iMovie.
Story:
The story would have been fine if it weren't for the following, the scene where Alejandro was masturbating in the cage, the scene where the tribe were high off of a small amount of Marijuana cooked within a body, and pretty much every death scene was bad.
I have never felt like leaving a movie theater early until watching The Green Inferno. I had to force myself to stay until the end simply because I paid to watch it. I like to watch movies whether they be great films or terrible movies. The Green Inferno goes to the top of my terrible list. I do not recommend this movie to anyone.