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Terrible movie

posted 11 years ago by simplicity-nz
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Not many movies that I turn it off before the end, but this one was of them. So many things wrong with it. To name a few of the top of my head:

1. Why are the police looking for them??? Yes, it stated in the beginning that the girl is not missing until 24 hrs later. But!!! The mom knows the girl is in trouble, someone's been killed, they're fighting for their lives. This is way and beyond a missing persons report. Plus they're out there way longer than 24hrs.

2. The girl and boy have a huge head start on the first morning with the bad guy in pursuit. They could have gone for miles. The father supposedly had breakfast in prison, drove to the working site, was doing work for x amount of time, ran away, drove for x amount of time, had to spend x amount of time tracking them and then somehow in a short space of time catches them??? Ridiculous.

3. The bad guy has a rifle with a scope and has many opportunities to aim while his targets are not moving at close range and yet he misses every time.

4. The bad guy is trying to kill the boy (and family) and yet when he finds the kid in the river he revives him. WTF?

Waste of time.

[–] mad_mike1211 11 years ago

You are one of those people who have to criticise the parts of the movie that do not even matter, I bet you get invited to the movies and round friends houses often don't you? ...

for one, the police are not looking for the children because no one was ever said to be killed, they are just missing

two, yes they could have ran a lot more than they did, but woods can be massive, you wouldn't be able to run for hours and hours on end without needing to stop for a while, you would be thirsty, hungry and very tired and not be able to do much.

three, have you ever fired a rifle before? have you ever been in a situation where you had to chase people down and stop them or you could risk going to prison for murder? I think not. In a situation like that you wouldn't be thinking like you are now, you wouldn't be able to hit a target every time even with a scope, takes a lot of training to actually be good at it.

four, he revives the kid so he can use him as leverage so he has something to bargain for, thought that would have been pretty obvious.

before criticising a movie try and actually think of the reasons for it and the reasons why your point might or might not be valid.

[–] simplicity-nz 11 years ago

Thank you for your reply.

I criticized those points because, yes, they do matter to the realism of the movie. They are critical to the story.

1. Kenny tells the mom Jenny is missing. He also tells her a man had been hurt and later (I might be wrong on this one) someone is dead. This is a completely different scenario from a kid simply not turning up home from school. The police would act on any of this information.

2. Exactly, the woods are massive funny how they just stumbled across the same path as the kids. Then the father did too (no he wasn't using tracking skills).

3. Yes. I have fired a rifle before. Many times. And by the speed and efficiency of the guy reloading so had he. They made it clear he didn't care about human life, so I don't agree with your point. Missing that many times at close range, even for a movie, made it too unbelievable.

4. OK. I can accept that. Makes sense.

Did you have part in making the movie? Seem to be pretty defensive about it.

[–] mad_mike1211 11 years ago

I understand your points made, I still don't think it can ruin a film though.

But yeah I agree about the rifle thing, at close range he probably shouldn't have missed all those times considering he did seem pretty familiar with the gun itself and how to handle it, yet those close range shots were pretty bad.

[–] Pj2904 10 years ago

I just gave to say, it's a film and doesn't necessarily have to or follow true logic as you see or understand it to be. It's just a film, watch it enjoy it or don't enjoy it! Move on to the next one....... Dont let in consume you to the point where it's taking more time out if your life.

Whatever your favourite film is, someone will find holes in it! Fine line between reality and fantasy/fiction....

[–] MadSimian 8 years ago

The internet(at least) would be pretty empty and quiet if people followed this advice. lol Sad but true.

I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey.

[–] Cbc-MacDixy 11 years ago

Only major plothole to me was when Fraser virtually knocks the bad guy out cold and then runs off - when he had ample time to grab the bad guy's rifle!.

Apart from that it wasn't too horrendous. Nice easy way to while away 90 mins, especially if you like films in wilderness settings.

[–] simplicity-nz 11 years ago

Yeah, forgot about that point. So true.

[–] Chops-4 11 years ago

. Not only did he neglect to take the guys rifle, he should have incapacitated the guy before running off. He could've cut his Achilles tendon or some other incapacitating effect.

[–] noisecandy 11 years ago

IT IS A FILM - maybe you should suspend your disbelief, get a grip on reality so that you understand what you are watching is a FANTASY, I shall spell it for you - F A N T A S Y. Whining is not an attractive trait.

[–] Cbc-MacDixy 11 years ago

I wasn't whining.

[–] kirkwightman 11 years ago

i have to agree, i tried like this movie, but it was terrible.4/10

[–] simplicity-nz 11 years ago

Haha. I think you're the one that needs to get a grip. Who is whining? It wasn't a fantasy film. For fantasy films I do suspend belief.

[–] anchurney 11 years ago

I love the part when they hear the gun shot and the kid says to his sister, "I think someone just got shot." Hmmmmmm in the Canadian woods and a gun goes off, the first thing I think is someone got shot. Hilarious, this movie is brutal.

[–] JrnlofEddieDeezenStudies 10 years ago

"Fantasy" doesn't just refer to dragons and wizards. That's only one narrow sense of the word. Breakout is fantasy in a broader sense, where we're simply noting that it's fiction and not meant to have documentary-like details, which is how you're insisting upon reading it.

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[–] daphschizo 11 years ago

what are you talking about? it wasnt terrible. sure it wasnt the greatest but it wasnt all that bad. i think your standard for movies are just a bit too high. just saying.

[–] simplicity-nz 11 years ago

It was terrible. The fact it went straight to DVD and critics have also said it was bad backs that up.

[–] anchurney 11 years ago

After answering the phone and getting Kenny on the other line not once but twice, he tells her that the daughter ran away, so why did she call the same phone and when Kenny answers she replies, "Jen?" This movie is so bad its good!

[–] Aleksandarrr 11 years ago

Ok, it wasn't terrible but it was pretty bad. :( I agree to most of your points to a degree.

[–] ipacac22 11 years ago

I rented this from Redbox because I saw Brendan Fraser was in it and I hadn't seen him in anything in awhile. I made it in about 8 minutes before I turned it off. I'm not watching a movie about a bunch of fvcking tree huggers. Garbage.

Utah! Get me two.

[–] Universalmike15 11 years ago

I didn't like this film at all. But I will say that this is the best look that Brendan Fraser has had in a while.

[–] TheChamCham 10 years ago

I have to disagree with you. I think he looked ill. Everyone was on him about his weight so he lost some but too quickly and he appeared to be wearing either an ill-fitting wig ( yes. I know he wears hairpieces and has had implants but his hair never looks odd as it did here. I found it distracting.)or a bad haircut and colored too darkly which only increased his pallor. His eyes looked unwell and for an actor who is usually so animated and able to show a range of emotions, he seemed to have the same expression for the entire film.

He did this film as a favor but I do not think it did him any favors.

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[–] rc-108 11 years ago

this was not a good movie.

it was like a bad made for tv movie.
the bad guys shooting was the worst in history.

the cutting the scenes back and forth every 1/2 second to make action did not work for me at all.

and the lines of the poor kids in the last 1/2 of the movie..

'dad' over and over...

a 3 from me.