Review of Hack! (2007) by Liz — 27 Mar 2010

Hack! was an original idea as far as my knowledge goes... and that phrase my friends was sarcastic. Almost every horror film thinks it's so smart when it uses old horror movies, or deaths from other movies, or even talk of older horror movies because that makes the movie interesting to horror lovers. But it doesn't. This movie was ok... but not great or even good. The acting was extremley sterio-typical and stupid, while the direction was about the only thing this movie has to be proud of.

I could call the entire movie within the moment the students got onto the island. There is no 'suprise' ending because you can see everything that's happening before it happens. I don't think there is even a reason to really enjoy much of this movie besides the fact that it was so funny to see the different types of characters die, because it was just that, fun to watch the characters in this movie die.

They had the same make up of characters that are always in a horro rmovie, and they die in basically the same way. that's why this movie is so unoriginal. They have the geeky-girl that has a crush on the popular boy, they're both virgins because those that have sex always die first. There is the air-head jock, who has sex, there is the sexy foreign girl, who has sex, there is the out-going and different girl, who is best friends with the gay guy, and the big-buff-black-guy who has a bunch of girls. Steriotypical or what? They all die the same way there characters always die in movies, if they die, ofcourse.

I saw this movie hoping there would be something more to it that what the summary suggests (Wanting to raise their grades, a handful of college kids are randomly selected for a field trip to study wildlife, but don't get the chance as cliché horror film-style murders occur.) But watching it I see nothing more that "cliche" as the summary so plainly puts it.

Not really worth the watch, at least if you want to see scary, becasuse it's not what you'll get.