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The Ruins
By Clayton
Davis
The plants are alive in
The Ruins, but the story is not.
The 1st
half of the year provides, very rarely, some touching motion pictures
but no one should expect the “guilty pleasure” that is The Ruins
to provide such a feeling.
The Carter Smith
directed film tells the story of four friends, out on a Mexican vacation
when they meet a group of European students who stumble upon a map to
visit one of the famous ruins. When they get there, they are bombarded
by a secret society of natives that chase them up the ruin, (where there
is a tent, rope, and everything they need to live for a few days) where
they’re surrounded for some strange reason.
Performances are
horrible, script is ridiculous, the concept is even more ridiculous and
the ending leaves it opens for more ruins to come. Starring Jena
Malone, in the most annoying performance ever in a “horror” movie, a
nearly unrecognizable Shawn Ashmore who is even more pointless as
he is acting at the moment, and a bunch of B-list nobodies that will
probably show up for the sequel even though we shouldn’t expect them
to. As preposterous as the story is, we can expect no less.
Past guilty
pleasures like Showgirls and Candyman who have no
character depth and go a whole lot of nowhere have the same premise and
effect on the viewer. The gore is extra as I ever seen which makes the
film kind of cool if you’re in to that kind of thing but no dramatic
chops to carry out of the theater with you.
**/****
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