Review of Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) by Mark D — 04 Nov 2012

Talk about not living up to the (cultish) hype. They spend far too much building things up, then never pull the trigger! It's quite frustrating. It started out with promise. We have these dudes digging a giant hole in the earth.

It ends up being a giant grave site,with the inhabitants not actually dead, but frozen. It must be Santa! (sings song)Here's the dinger(SPOILER for anyone who cares). We NEVER see this bad ass mythic Santa.

We get a hint as to who he was and what he did(read: NOT good things), but never get to experience it. I thought that was what the movie was going to be about! A crazed Santa going around kicking the shit out of naughty folks.

All we end up with are some gnarly looking "elves", who don't really do anything. I don't get the positive reviews at all. Apparently these people were expecting a terribly boring movie with nothing happening.

Talk about low expectations.