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Complete Failure (Covers Every Point)

posted 12 years ago by DrmWmn
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First, it had no real terror or shock value. There wasn't much of anything to figure out. Once they began with the flashbacks, it was pretty much a given who Elizabeth was. So...

Second, it was all over the place! There wasn't anything that made this movie cohesive. Some started getting leprosy, some caught on fire, some they tried to drown, and what did the dog do?

Third, Maggie Grace is not a strong enough actress to have her staring off into space for the majority of the movie. Especially with this storyline lacking direction.

Other Problems:

Nick - he loved Elizabeth so much he is going to brush her off for his friend? When she walks in freaked out in the hospital he just tells her "not now". Not to mention most of his lines were "Come on" or "we've got to go". Why would he chase off after Elizabeth into the Cemetary, only to give his usual line and run to safety, WITHOUT grabbing her hand or something?!? No chemistry and it makes absolutely no sense.

Elizabeth - she spouts some junk about the island never being her home and how she didn't belong there. Then why was it so important for the colonists to get their land? Even if she stated it as "something about this place just never felt right. The way my mother, etc, run this place..." Her expressions didn't match what was going on either. She walked towards Blake, not like she was drawn to him as she should have, but in a manner that didn't match up with the scene. Shouldn't she have been more in a trance? More like she was going home?

The priest drank all of the time, yet it didn't explain too well why he felt that way or HOW he knew the truth. They kept showing the stamp, even with the graffiti, but why? Was that really so important if they were just going to leave it hanging?

Bad movie all around. Hated it and it took everything I had to sit thru it.

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[–] JudeFox 12 years ago

What about the critical point that the characters do nothing to move the plot along, nor does the plot truly engage the characters, except to use them as fodder. Tom Welling's "Nick" is particularly useless and, being billed as the "Lead" (and it certainty felt like he had the most screen time though that might have gone to Maggie Grace's "Elizabeth" - I'm not really sure) he is meant to be proactive and, even if hos actions could not change the course of what was going on, plot-wise, he could have still gotten action form the other characters, built an emotional arc and driven the heart of the story but instead, he was treated as you would write a disposable, side character. On the other hand, if the "Elizabeth" character is our true lead, then the same could be said about her. What could have been an interesting conflict of her trying to figure out what was happening to her and why, with the emotional levy of her needing to come to terms with her fate or fight on as out heroine, she was instead treated like set dressing!

This was just abysmal screenwriting from A-Z and is completely inexcusable! Both that it takes any blame off the direction either, as it is always the Director's job to fix what's wrong with the screenplay in order to make a good film... of course, there were lots of other issues with the directing (and the script too) as well but I don't have all day, as I feel I've made enough of a point.

[–] DrmWmn 11 years ago

Thank you!!!

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[–] AdmiralTugBenson 11 years ago

Good points, this movie was truly awful. Even without comparing it to the original, but when you do, then it's unbelievably awful. I'm not one of those people who just hates remakes, and sees them as a raping of my childhood. For example, I enjoyed the Dawn Of The Dead and Fright Night remakes. Not as much as the originals, but I liked them enough to own them. It didn't hurt that Dawn came on a Double Feature Blu Ray with Land Of The Dead though. This was just a dismal failure on every level though.

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[–] Fashionably_Straight 9 years ago

this movie was truly awful. Even without comparing it to the original, but when you do, then it's unbelievably awful.

This is the definitive review for this entire movie.