Formulaic, unoriginal script and story. Performances less compelling and emotive than a cigar store Indian. Utterly amateurish special effects. Need I say more?
There isn't a likeable character in the bunch, except for maybe the naive "good girl", Katie. Everyone else is a cardboard cutout that speaks. We have the slutty Goth girl. We have the clueless bimbo obsessed with her cell phone. We have the airhead surfer dude type. We have the slacker. We have the shallow, vapid girl with a crush on her college professor. We have the unambitious college professor who is so bad at his job that he's about to be denied tenure. Oh, and he's the sleazy type that cheats on his pregnant wife with slutty Goth girl.
Mr. Unambitious Professor leads this group of students out to an archeological assignment in an effort to try and save his job. None of these students seems the least bit interested in what they're supposed to be doing, or what they're supposed to be looking for. You see, that's what college professors about to lose their positions do, in a last ditch effort to hang onto their livelihood. They pick the least likely students to help them succeed. Yep. Unh hunh.
In one scene, Surfer dude flatly and boorishly asks a man with a badly scarred face what happened to his face. Did he lose a fight with a grizzly bear? Maybe a Sasquatch? He later finds a lasso, and pretty much carries it with him everywhere he goes, because everyone knows that lassoes and lariats are invaluable tools on archeological digs, right?
At one point, the professor does an equipment check to make sure that everyone has tools, flashlights, et cetera. After that, at no time ever in the movie does a single student carry anything with them, except the idiot surfer dude carrying the lasso. No backpacks, no flashlights, no tools. Well, we all know that those things would be useless in a dig or an excavation anyway, right? Except for the all-important lasso.
Before the end of this movie, you'll wish that you had that lasso so that you can hang yourself and be spared the rest of the movie.
There isn't a likeable character in the bunch, except for maybe the naive "good girl", Katie. Everyone else is a cardboard cutout that speaks. We have the slutty Goth girl. We have the clueless bimbo obsessed with her cell phone. We have the airhead surfer dude type. We have the slacker. We have the shallow, vapid girl with a crush on her college professor. We have the unambitious college professor who is so bad at his job that he's about to be denied tenure. Oh, and he's the sleazy type that cheats on his pregnant wife with slutty Goth girl.
Mr. Unambitious Professor leads this group of students out to an archeological assignment in an effort to try and save his job. None of these students seems the least bit interested in what they're supposed to be doing, or what they're supposed to be looking for. You see, that's what college professors about to lose their positions do, in a last ditch effort to hang onto their livelihood. They pick the least likely students to help them succeed. Yep. Unh hunh.
In one scene, Surfer dude flatly and boorishly asks a man with a badly scarred face what happened to his face. Did he lose a fight with a grizzly bear? Maybe a Sasquatch? He later finds a lasso, and pretty much carries it with him everywhere he goes, because everyone knows that lassoes and lariats are invaluable tools on archeological digs, right?
At one point, the professor does an equipment check to make sure that everyone has tools, flashlights, et cetera. After that, at no time ever in the movie does a single student carry anything with them, except the idiot surfer dude carrying the lasso. No backpacks, no flashlights, no tools. Well, we all know that those things would be useless in a dig or an excavation anyway, right? Except for the all-important lasso.
Before the end of this movie, you'll wish that you had that lasso so that you can hang yourself and be spared the rest of the movie.