Green Inferno Review

"You know what this is? You know what they're doing to us?" Eli Roth brings us another twisted tale in his new movie The Green Inferno. The buzz about this movie has been going on for about two years now because there was quite a lot of problems finding a distributor for this film and now I have finally seen it. I wish I was more impressed.

The plot is simple. A group of college activists go into the Amazonian rain forest to save a local tribe from deforestation but unfortunately their plane crashes and they are captured by the very tribe they saved. But guess what? They are a tribe of cannibals! Who knows what will happen!?

Now if you couldn't read the sarcasm through my plot summary, this plot is so overused. The cannibal genre has been going on since Cannibal Holocaust came out in 1980. I know that this is Roth's homage to that film but I just wasn't intrigued and impressed with it. It was so cliche and you knew what was going to happen from the beginning.

The acting throughout the film is mediocre. Lorenzo Izzo who plays the lead role does an alright job at pretending to be a scared girl in a terrible situation. The other lead actor Ariel Levy does about as good a job as he could. But his role is for the audience to basically hate him from his first sentence that he utters, which isn't very hard to do. All of Roth's characters have no real depth and are just there to be eaten.

The film is shot on digital so it has very vibrant colors which I actually did enjoy because the jungle looks beautiful in this film. Also the special effects and gore in the film is pretty extreme. But the problem with this film is that it didn't really bring anything new to the table. It was just another gore fest brought by Eli Roth. There was nothing original and I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be funny or scary or what the direction of the film was.

The Green Inferno is just another film in a long list of films that bring blood, guts and gore to the big screen. The problem with this film is that it had nothing inside. It was just a hollow shell. If what you are looking for is a gore fest then this is a good film for you. Otherwise I wouldn't waste your time on it.

Grade: D-

Genre: Horror

Cast: Lorenzo Izzo, Ariel Levy

Rated: R for aberrant violence and torture, grisly disturbing images, brief graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use.

Director: Eli Roth