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Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Screen Squinty There is a frustrating trend in cinema now a days where you get some beautifully wrought films where you can tell that a great deal of care and attention is going into them, but only in one aspect of the film, leaving other aspects, necessary ones, like a flat tire that could have made for an otherwise smooth ride, and this movie is a prime example.The focus, and thus the strength in this movie are the visuals. There is this almost too beautiful super-realism to it, a sense of texture that a spectator can almost feel with their eyeballs; the sheen, heave, and ripples of water, the grit of sand on the bodies of the two protagonists as they embrace on the beach, the deadly rough edges of a stone fish, the drips of water as one of the protagonists take an early morning dip in the cooling shallows. It adds a layer of visual experience to the movie that makes spectators almost feel the sand down their shorts.The film also deserves credit for knowing how to use angle, close ups, and perspective shots in this film. There is also this trend in films from time to time where the creators get a little to enamoured of a particular type of shot and often it is used in a way that does not work well with the plot (for example a pointless pan across in M. Night Shyamalan's Signs, used where nothing of any great tension or obvious oddity is happening, which is one of the reason's filmmakers normally use the method, to heighten these moments), this is something that the movie fortunately doesn't do. The low angle first person shot of Harry as he looks up at the attacker who struck him with the gun, the use of in and out of focus, and the occasional over exposure give a sense of the surreal state of in and out of consciousness that Harry is experiencing.It's not just camera though, the soundtrack highlights the sense of location while at the same time, winding the tension in the spectators more successfully than the narrative itself is in presenting the supernatural malevolence that haunts the island. It provides an auditory flavor that is beautiful and eerie at the same time without being intrusive. Sound in this film is properly used as a narrative aide, and not just there despite the narrative.Despite these positive qualities, the weakness in this film lies in the narrative.The transitions between these beautiful visuals to the actual plot happening (when it eventually does) gives a sense as if someone were filming an IMAX beach documentary and some semblance of a story wanders drunkenly onto set from time to time, reminding the viewer "oh yeah, I am watching a movie." The transitions between these moments are jarring and weaken the experience of the film.Said drunken narrative itself is a lazily put together ghost story with the revelation of the reality of the ghost to the characters shoe horned in with an exceedingly weak-ass plot device. The two leads played by Geraldine Hakewell and Henry James, are portrayed well enough, particularly Hakewell as Beth, but all you really know about them is that they are in wuv and on vacation, with shallow dialogue that reveals practically nothing about themselves, except that one of them is a marine biologist, and that's it. There is nothing character-wise to hold on to in this film and it makes it hard for spectators to empathize with them as they have no internal conflict.The ghost itself has an overused motivation of blind vengeance, and is just as two dimensional as the protagonists. There is no relationship between the ghost and her victims, other than the fact that one of them has a generalized trait, that there is a man on the island, which incites her actions. Her back story is too rushed and clichéd, and other then a brief moment where Beth feels a sympathy for the woman and how she died, there is nothing between the two women that fleshes out the ghost from the perspective of the victims, or vice versa. This is echoed in the conclusion of the narrative, as Beth's fate leaves a groan and eye roll at how freakin' unimaginative and nonsensical (in a bad, lazy way) it is within the established narrative – what there is of it.This movie was frustrating to watch because of all this amazing visual detail and excellent use of sound, but the narrative in contrast was so bad, that it leaves one feeling unfulfilled against the promise that the technical side of things makes, but doesn't match with story-wise. It's a shame because if the narrative had even been half way better than it is, this would have been one of the better contemporary horror movies out there.

Mikel3 Last night we watched 'Uninhabited'. It's the story of a young couple that camp out on a small tropical island near the Great Barrier Reef. They're dropped off there by a small boat that would come back to pick them up in 10 days. They have all the supplies they need and a tent. The island is supposed to be uninhabited so they would be alone and have a romantic getaway. After the first day or so they come to realize they're not alone, someone or some thing is watching them and messing with their things. Are the other inhabitants humans playing tricks on them or is it something much more sinister and supernatural? The movie contains some nice tropical scenic photography, unfortunately the story drags out and was ultimately a waste of time. I'll rate it 4 stars for the pretty scenery.

FlashCallahan When Harry and his girlfriend Beth travel to one of the six hundred islands in the Northeast coast of Australia, they expect to camp ten days in a deserted paradise.But they find footprints on the sand and things missing in their camp. They believe that it could be a prank by some children camping on the other side of the island.After an incident with two Greek fisherman, the couple find that a woman was molested and murdered years ago on the island, and her ghost still walks the sands.....First off, I really doubt that this movie is based on actual events, because, Spoiler Alert!, no one lives to tell the tale.Take that equation away, and the film is pretty intense, with a wonderful soundtrack, and quite unsettling sound effects.The two leads are what you would expect from a cheap B movie, not the best actors in the world, but perfunctory.There are a few times when you think to yourself 'yes, I'd leave by now' like when they find out that someone gas been filming them, but no, they want to stay.So all in all, it's nice little find, nothing special, with a good twist ending, but never in a million years is this story true.

targa9 After watching the more highly-produced, space horror flick "Europa Report", I wasn't expecting much from this flick. But these Aussies know how to make B-movies at least better than Americans or Brits. "Wish You Were Here" was also another slow-burn Aussie flick.This film is about a young couple who camp out on an uninhabited island for 10 days. Or so they think it's uninhabited. Unlike "Europa Report", this film throws us a creepy bone every now and then to keep us interested, and the run-in with the Greek fisherman was well-placed and suspenseful actually. The acting by the male was NOT bad; I don't know what these others are talking about. The couple did make some bad choices, but that's the writer's fault, and the choices weren't beyond the pale, since they DID believe some kids were pranking them (after all, if there was something more sinister going on, they would have done it at night).The resolution/wrap-up is a little confusing, and some moments don't work as well as others, but all-in-all, a fairly entertaining and short movie. There are NO cringeworthy moments that I could see.