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    by Se13an




I really wanted to like this but alas it failed to live up to expectations, even as low as they were. Four privileged white college students are on a vacation to a tropical resort and after a week of booze and beach they get bored and go in search of some adventure that quickly turns sour--stop me if this sounds way too familiar. After a series of ridiculously stupid mishaps--really, when there are some really pissed guys with weapons yelling at you in a foreign language you understand none of, do you really take pictures of them? After this they are trapped by what I swear looked like killer pot plants, it's the real Reefer Madness. The rest of the movie is them stabbing themselves, stabbing each other, and screaming at each other like monkeys in the zoo. It's another in a recent trend of white people in peril in foreign land movies that can't help but be bogged down by it. The other big problem, aside from the plot, was the characters aren't likable enough for you to care about them being attacked by the plants, another flaw of pretty much every white people in peril movie. The first twenty minutes is always them acting like entitled dingbats belittling the locals because they are Americans and Americans are number 1. I had such high hopes for this movie. I really want domestic horror to pull itself out of the PG-13/remake malaise it is stuck in and get back to what it use to be in the '70s and '80s: bloody scary fun. But they just can't seem to get all four wheels going in the same direction at the same time, and "The Ruins" is just another example of that.
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NYou do have some good points, but the movie is a great adaptation of the now modern classic novel. I liked the film a lot, it had good pacing w/ a lot of tension.JV47842
NI actually agree with most of your points, but I still think it was much better than 2 stars. Kind of hard to deduct points for stupid white people being dumbasses, since that's really the basis for almost the entire horror genre... :)Choco
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    by JV47842


"The Ruins" is a great adaptation of the award-winning horror novel from Scott B. Smith. The author also wrote the suspenseful tale "A Simple Plan".

"The Ruins" is definitely not for the faint of heart. The film is intense and gory. The film also reminds me what a real horror film should be, since mainstream scare flicks are geared towards teenie boppers.

The flick is a real scare, and the atmosphere in the movie is full of tension. If you want a real horror pic, then get this film now.

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YI tend to avoid US horror because it tends to just bore. But, on this review, I gave it watch and was quite happy with the result. Nice call.Garvinstomp
YI was surpirsed how tense and good this pic is.Black Belt Ninja
YDude We Share Too Many Similar Thoughts LOLMovie Freak
YI enjoyed this quite a bit. Still debating whether or not I'll buy it on DVD but it's definitely worth the rental fee.KEVINBELLAMY
YI agree. The logic and characters had some serious problems IMO, but it was a solid 4-star horror flick.Choco
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    by Movie Freak


This film is tense, gory, and shows what happens when people start freaking out because of fear and deception. Definitely watch this film. Highly recommended.
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