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Definitely Not a RuinExpert pacing sets it high above others in the genre. Not horror-porn, as some may interpret. Whereas Eli Roth seems to build a plot around mutilation, director Carter Smith delivers a captivating tale and injects a gory sequence or two at just the right moments. At a time when movies about college kids leaving America to get killed are so popular they're banged out by the Sci-fi Channel on a weekly basis, it's a comfort to know that careful directing can still make or break a movie.
If you liked The Descent, then you will almost positively like this movie
"Stop! Rewind That."There, can't you see? Dennis Quaid is a cyborg who can't be killed. Even squishing his entire body between two hard metal surfaces at a high speed doesn't work, and that's what killed the goddamn Terminator!
Otherwise, an engaging film that's very entertaining and makes decent use of its premise, despite the entire movie being generally predictable. I suppose in a film based on a stylistic gimmick of revealing what you've already seen in a new, surprising light, predictability is more or less a death warrant.
The Protagonist Murders Lots of Children and Loses Nearly All of His LimbsWithout a doubt, the best of the prequel trilogy. While it drags at times, and the storytelling is nearly drowned once again by the overuse of CG, the story being told is much more personal, interesting and thematic. Unlike the first movie (a political thriller set in space that suffered from too much of everything else), where the best scene involved a cartoon sequence of small anti-gravitational hot rods racing one another, this movie is actually saved by its storytelling.
The ending was definitely a ballsy move by writer/director George Lucas, but he pulled it off well. Watching the three movies in order actually puts it all in a greater perspective; the arc of the main character seems somewhat renewed each movie if they're not watched back-to-back.
Altogether, I'd say this it's great. At the very least, it's the only installment of the prequel trilogy that seems like an actual movie.
