Review of The Green Inferno (2013) by Arun G — 17 Oct 2015

SPOILERS.

You know, this film was actually played at the TIFF festival over 2 years ago. Not anything to do with my review, Just quite shocked. Still going to put it in my 2015 overall. Defining issues with this film. First 2 minutes with that awkward cut edit was stupid and made me go hmm. this movie is going to be terrible. What add on to that is the Main character as well as her best friend (My Bae Sky Ferreria) being god awful actors, as well as many more cringe worthy scenes. Other actors were alright, but just looked back because of shitty script writing. Now what was the reasoning to why I kept watching this film? Because I wanted to see the parts with the tribes people. You don't see the tribes people until a little over halfway through the film. That can relay as an issue, since the film is supposed to be about these people's predicament with them, but already halfway through they haven't played much of a role towards the narrative. The tribes people are "Cannibals". This whole film only actually was supposed to capture the tribes people as "Cannibals". First sequence is decently gory and made me feel queasy, but in the end I want to understand why this film wanted to just stoop to Cannibalism instead of trying to "sacrifice" them for maybe a so-called religion of theirs. It just seems to be boring and out-of-place that they would get them to go to Cannibalism. Although it is quite interesting farther in the film when you find out that they do eat their own, they just don't kill when they do it. And some scenes in this film were odd, as in I felt ridiculous to put in, but to each their own. As well there was some continuity errors which were just awful to have with Eli Roth being a well known director. In the ending act, it get's quite interesting to be honest because the main character had gotten saved and she went home and on camera said that the natives had helped her, and didn't kill anyone. I actually thought that was a smart move because it is social commentary about the way that these native's live is elementary to them, in their eyes they are doing nothing wrong. I believe she had done that so noone interferes with their life, but as well in hopes noone will have to deal with their life. I thought the movie was terrible. The ending was clever though. So in the end the movie interested me, but it had so many godawful issues and flaws that it's better just to forget about the film altogether 4/10.