I'd like to start by saying that they did an awful lot more right in this movie than they did wrong. I took one look at "Gaboon" and decided I wasn't going to like her (for looking too much like Rick Moranis) but she ended up one of the best characters. Naturally, the camera settles on the most attractive female, who I can say delivers nearly all of the film's eye-rolling moments. In this case it's Ali Larter's character, Susan, who is setup early in the film for new job as a college professor, then spends too-long a portion of the film doing cliche stupid stuff like not running AWAY but staying in the general area of the bad guys, and the always popular leaving guns laying around after various near-death experiences while stumbling off into the wilds defenseless. She miraculously manages to choke some meathead to death in 10 seconds, then leaves him with 2 loaded guns. As in virtually every movie, there's the scenes where she discovers that her cell phone has no signal (suprise!) then waste's the remainder of the almost-dead battery looking at pictures until the screen goes blank. Then there's nearl using up her cigarette lighter to illuminate some graffiti when she could have picked up a burning stick from the fire she just made. Not a strong planner, this Susan. Then finally making it to her nearly new $40,000 truck and which won't start (SUPER cliché eye-roll - bad writer, bad!).
Some of the things done right: * no pointless, cringey sex scenes * no black female detective, police chief, mayor, dean, governor, 5 star military general, or president, a huge relief from the predictable characters forced into virtually every movie or tv program.
* To her credit, Susan is seen running in a couple scenes, and not once does she fall, allowing the bad guy to catch her. She also doesn't scream through most of the film, for which I'd like to see the writer or director given some sort of award.
* most of the movie music is worth listening to.
* Virtually all of the script is well written and believable.
All in all, a pretty enjoyable film, and one I'll watch again in the future.
Some of the things done right: * no pointless, cringey sex scenes * no black female detective, police chief, mayor, dean, governor, 5 star military general, or president, a huge relief from the predictable characters forced into virtually every movie or tv program.
* To her credit, Susan is seen running in a couple scenes, and not once does she fall, allowing the bad guy to catch her. She also doesn't scream through most of the film, for which I'd like to see the writer or director given some sort of award.
* most of the movie music is worth listening to.
* Virtually all of the script is well written and believable.
All in all, a pretty enjoyable film, and one I'll watch again in the future.