Since many people are raving about this movie (of course also the original but from what I found the plot is about the same) I thought I'd give it a try. The basic idea about a city couple with some relationships issues going on a camping weekend and getting a taste of mother nature made me expect a kind of "Deliverance"-Movie but honestly "Long Weekend" stretches too far. The focus is on the couple and the slow build up of their problems with each other as well as their surrounding. So basically you only see 2 actors here mixed with a lot of nature shots and utter darkness.
The whole thing builds up really slow and makes you expect a giant surprise for the wait.... don't expect too much. You pretty much know what happens when you read the basic plot and the hints about their mistreatment of nature are so incredibly blunt it hurts. Two scenes totally did it for me... first of all when the man shoots at a dark shadow in the water like crazy just to accuse his wife of damaging an eagles egg in the next scene and when he drives like a maniac through the forest with the car being his only hope of escaping, of course crashing into a tree. Thers so many scenes that make no sense... best one is the harpoon that is shooting by itself and nearly killing the wife WHO IS STANDING in a 90 Degree Angle to it. Sure... its a foreboding of whats to come but does it have to be this unrealistic? The basic message "Don't f** with nature" is dropped in so often that the great abortion-back story of the couple is the icing on a very tasteless cake. On top you get stuff dropped in that is totally meaningless for the plot like the dead campers they find or the manity moving though its dead (although I have to admit thats kinda creepy). All these elements and their constant moving in circles give some supernatural hints like they are trapped by nature in some kind of purgatory. Nothing is solved or fits together and the finale doesn't even fit the supernatural clues and on top throws in the most stupid of natures revenges in this movie. I don't get it... to me this is a real boring and also stupid movie leading absolutely nowhere.
The whole thing builds up really slow and makes you expect a giant surprise for the wait.... don't expect too much. You pretty much know what happens when you read the basic plot and the hints about their mistreatment of nature are so incredibly blunt it hurts. Two scenes totally did it for me... first of all when the man shoots at a dark shadow in the water like crazy just to accuse his wife of damaging an eagles egg in the next scene and when he drives like a maniac through the forest with the car being his only hope of escaping, of course crashing into a tree. Thers so many scenes that make no sense... best one is the harpoon that is shooting by itself and nearly killing the wife WHO IS STANDING in a 90 Degree Angle to it. Sure... its a foreboding of whats to come but does it have to be this unrealistic? The basic message "Don't f** with nature" is dropped in so often that the great abortion-back story of the couple is the icing on a very tasteless cake. On top you get stuff dropped in that is totally meaningless for the plot like the dead campers they find or the manity moving though its dead (although I have to admit thats kinda creepy). All these elements and their constant moving in circles give some supernatural hints like they are trapped by nature in some kind of purgatory. Nothing is solved or fits together and the finale doesn't even fit the supernatural clues and on top throws in the most stupid of natures revenges in this movie. I don't get it... to me this is a real boring and also stupid movie leading absolutely nowhere.