It started oke, nice German forest and some dudes on a trip. It is clear they focus more on the quantity of their selection than the actual quality of their content. What kind of thriller movie has barely any thrills?! This is just another L on Netflix's loooooong lists of disappointments. This movie is very predictable and straightforward with almost no twists which it DESPERATELY needed to keep you awake from this boredom of watching guys walk around in ugly grey woods and waiting for something to happen. The final act is unsatisfying and ends abruptly, not to mention the huge leap of logic in the final "fight" where a fully grown man actually struggles to wrestle a gun from this average build woman. The subplot between two of the characters is straight out of a mediocre soap opera and has zero place in this thriller. It is extremely hard to understand or empathize with her because the reason for her hunting the main characters makes no sense and is absurdly unjustified, no matter how stupid or selfish these guys are. The shooter has all but 2 lines and a stagnant facial expression to charaterize her and it unsurprisingly did not work. All the main characters are absurdly paper thin with all but one of them being extremely annoying and selfish. It started off decent when you had no idea who or where the shooter was but then both the characters and plot became just idiotic. Roman (David Kross) was much too happy and trusting while his girlfriend seemed too perfect. As far as the twist, I knew it immediately. We also have a killer who is very strong, can wrestle men, and has the ability to drag dead bodies into a cave from miles away. Meanwhile, the lunatic is a hot chick seeking revenge on anyone and everyone - this includes a clueless but amused teen working behind a desk in a "hut" out in the middle of nowhere with no phone service, and surprised that she might actually have some customers when these dudes waltz in asking to use the phone. This is a necessity because she's in no hurry reminding me of bad 80s horror where the killer is never running but still always there. Instead, they run a ways always seeming to stop to bicker like little girls in order to, apparently, let the shooter catch up. There's five dudes and one shooter but no one thinks to separate and break out in five different directions. The Asian guy who was afraid of his own shadow should have been pissing himself but all he seemed to do was whimper while continuing to wear his bright orange hat when there's a sniper taking shots at them. But these men never impressed me as being as fearful as they should have been. The film didn't look cheap which is huge. Of course I wasn't expecting anything comparable but if done right it's hard to go wrong. And so, as I began watching this movie I had high hopes. 3/10.īack when I was really young, I remember watching movies like Deliverance and Southern Comfort. I just lost an hour and a half of sleep for this random bs thriller with almost no thrill. Overall, it's almost like this movie exists to waste people's time. The final scene was just as random and gave more questions than answers. Second, and the most important of all, the reason that they got hunted was bafflingly unjustified that just pissed me off at the end. They all fell into certain types of characters. These flashbacks served almost no purpose and didn't change my perceptions on these characters much. First, there's flashbacks throughout the movie about the main guy. And this is where the movie became just straight up stupid and nonsensical. However, I still want to see the justification for all of this. There were some scenes that worked, but for a lot of it I was bored because of how dragged the pacing was. The suspense relied on the mystery of the hunter, who was deadly and familiar with the territory. Most of the runtime was these guys running in the woods. The premise is simple: 5 guys on a trip in the jungle got hunted down by a mysterious hunter. A new German survival thriller on Netflix.
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