Karine...


... or rather Karen, should have been the heroine. I don't know if it was the filmmakers intent on taking out the likely hero and heroine first for shock value - and I am not inclined to give him credit for that considering what a pooper this devolved into - but I think a HUGE mistake was made not having her character carry the film.

Hands down, both women were stronger characters than their male companions but I didn't feel as much for Chloe. Her flashbacks were trite and felt very out of place and underdeveloped and she lost all credibility at the end when she didn't finish him off.

When Karen died, I kinda tuned out. She was smart and supportive by helping Luke(OMGKILLHIMNOW), nearly dies on the bridge but soldiers on, single-handedly saves Luke and William, takes charge in the search for her boyfriend and then saves Chloe - Who sooo should have died in that pit trap. Srsly. When she finally does crack, it is very believable but still brief as she sucks it up and gets back to work... Not to mention, she was super cute in that girl-next-door way. :)

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I completely agree with you. I liked her character more and I thought she was much cuter than that Chloe chic.

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no way Fanny Valette is beautiful

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Great points! Karine was more heroic, responsible, and cuter than Chloe. After she got killed, I didn't care as much what happened to the rest.

"No *beep* sh*t lady, do I sound like I'm ordering a pizza?" - John McClane

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I came here to post exactly this - I liked Karine a lot more than the other characters, she would have been much more believable as the final girl than ChloƩ.

If the intention was to shock the audience by taking her out quite early then I suppose it worked because I expected her to last longer but the problem with that is I wanted to see more of her and when she was killed my interest in the film dropped quite a lot because I didn't care what happened to the rest really, they'd done nothing but Karine had saved all of the rest so I had grown to like her and nobody else really stepped up after her demise.

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Chloe had better cans. Other chick had a butter face.

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Agreed. Karine dying was surprising and could've worked if they'd made the other characters as interesting but they weren't IMO

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