Review of Welcome to the Jungle (2007) by Christopher B — 12 Dec 2007

This movie is terrible until the pretty cool ending. We spend close to an hour with totally unlikable characters before anything of real importance happens (and I know the characters in Cannibal Holocaust are unlikable too, but at least they were evil along with being assholes), but when the payoff comes, it's pretty satisfying.

Director Hensleigh made the same mistake with his Punisher film, showing way, way too much horseshit before getting to the meat of the movie (wow, seriously, that pun was not intended) and losing half the audience.

It's okay if you're developing story or characters, but this is just padding, and annoying padding at that. I wish padding were more like Pad Thai, I love Pad Thai. Nevertheless, I don't remember any Jungle Cannibal movies that I dislike and I would hate to break that record, hell I even liked the awful Cannibal Terror.

Until the cannibal genre is run into the dirt along with it's kin the zombie film, I shall still watch, and probably love and cherish, every cannibal opus to be released. Have I mentioned Pad Thai? I love it.