The movie will be released in 100 screens here in Italy tomorrow, June 1st. I can't wait! I'll let you know what I think about it. The multiplex where I work is full of posters and banners about the movie. I'm happy Italy will be the first country to release this film.
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I didn't had time today becuase I worked all the day long.... I just saw the opening sequence which was good but nothing special. I also read several reviews: the movie is nothing great but, one reviewer said, even if the beginning is lame, the second part is quite good, good direction work and good acting. He says the script is the main problem.
Anyhow the movie opens with a nice take in the ocean and a young couple in they're yacht. She's a little drunk. She ask: "Are we lost?" and he answers something like "No, I simply don't know where we are". And they they see an island...
This movie wasn't bad. It wasn't great but it wasn't a bad b-horror movie. The big problem here was the screenplay and some of the dialogs but the direction was good.
There are really wonderful takes (I think the first shot of the island from Jenny and Luke's point-of-view was really dark, mysteryous, scary) and even if the editing in the first part is lame, it's really good during the action and suspense sequences. Mastandrea's direction seems inspired, the cinematography is brilliant. The screenplay has too many cliches and the actors' lines are that great but I've seen worst movies than this one. You don't leave the theatre thinking "What a great movie" but I think you don't even think "What peace of ****". It was average, just a way to show that Nick Mastandrea has learn the lessons from masters Craven and Romero and he knows what to do to make people laugh and jump. He just need a better script.
It has its funny lines as it knew it was too much cliched: like when Michelle Rodriguez is going to kill a pair of dogs and said "Say hi to Cujo!" or when Hill Harper says "Why the hell the electrical equiment is ALWAYS in the dark basements????".
I won't tell who die and who do not, but in a cast where you have 7 actors, 4 won't survive (maybe....).
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