The film's ending, before credits start rolling, is quite good and, again, it sort ends up helping to fulfill the mission that they set out to complete in the first place. No one else really has anything interesting to say or even do. He's the only real interesting character in the film because his views on activism, after being captured by the tribe, does show to be a fraud and someone who's using activism to raise his own profile and ego under the guise of attempting to do good. The only one that really resembles anything of an actual human would be Alejandro. The character development, of course, is minimal. The stuff with the tribe is good, it manages to keep your attention. If it wasn't for the first half of the film dragging so much, this would've gotten a better rating. So I can see someone looking and this and just being terrified. This is more likely to happen than an actual, literal demon possessing someone's body. I think it works in that, because anything like this is unlikely to ever happen to anyone reading this, it's also not something that would be an entirely unrealistic scenario to someone. I thought the segments with the tribe, while not perfect, were pretty solid all things considered. There's also a fairly gruesome, and surprising, throat slit scene. The film is, obviously, still really gory, but it just peaks way too early. And I get why they did it, you want to show the people how utterly nasty and brutal this tribe can be, but it also meant that everything after that never came close to that brutality. Nothing comes close, so they pretty much blew their wad right out of the gate. The problem is, however, that every death after that point sort of pales in comparison. This is, clearly, the horror highlight of the film as it's where the film is at its most brutal, like if you were to imagine a situation where a tribe dismembered you, this was the scene that 95% of people would come up with. And then there's the scene where they pretty much dismember a character to take his meat to consume. The film does kick off the horror with a bang, though, the plane crash itself is fairly gory, well the first death is at least. For what reason, I really have no idea, but, to me, there's a lot of scenes in the film that could've been trimmed down a little bit. While there's the exposition that is necessary to set everything up, I just think there's too much that just feels like it's there to artificially extend the length of the film. The problem is however that I think there's a lot of filler in the lead-up to the group being caught by the tribe. The film criticizes those who use activism as a PR stunt and how sometimes the good guys and the bad guys are more in-tune than they would like for people to know. They'll remember the cannibalistic tribe and the fairly horrifying way that they disposed of their first victim/meal. Of course, that's not something that the majority of people will remember, or eve completely get, from this movie. The film is fairly meta in the way that it uses its narrative as activism. I'm not saying the film isn't without its flaws, but it also, at the very least, attempts to use this approach in order to shine a light on a much bigger issue. And this is something Roth explained this when the film faced some criticism due to its portrayal as indigenous people as savages. Honestly that, in reality, is the bigger issue. I don't think it's nearly as bad as No Escape, in that at least this film depicts the struggle against the tribe and those that are trying to kill them off in order to exploit the land they live on and its resources. The film, however, much like No Escape, is really retrograde in its approach to how it chooses to portray the indigenous tribe that serve as the main antagonists of the film. This, really, is Cannibal Holocaust for the modern era. Shyamalan has made a better horror movie than Eli Roth and there's nothing wrong with that. But alas today is the day where the impossible is possible. Night Shyamalan, in 2015, would've made a better horror movie than Eli Roth. Never once, in a million years, would I have ever said that M.
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