The quality of the film is so poor. The story itself is fine, the plot is serviceable. However, the execution of the script is so awful-- stilted dialogue, long ridiculous stretches of exposition. Over- explaining things for the foreign markets? No, it's just amateurish.
Poorly shot, even though the visual ideas are quite good; it's just not carried out well.
And the gore ... most of the other reviewers seem to love it. I think it's effective, although not necessarily masterful.
I don't think anyone set out to make a bad movie. I think it's a director and some actors (not good, but making the effort ... don't know how they can understand each other with five million accents going on) who tried really hard. Maybe they didn't have the budget/resources to do it well, or the entire crew didn't care about the product at all. Worst case/worst crime--the director did his best and thought this was good. Ugh.
Poorly shot, even though the visual ideas are quite good; it's just not carried out well.
And the gore ... most of the other reviewers seem to love it. I think it's effective, although not necessarily masterful.
I don't think anyone set out to make a bad movie. I think it's a director and some actors (not good, but making the effort ... don't know how they can understand each other with five million accents going on) who tried really hard. Maybe they didn't have the budget/resources to do it well, or the entire crew didn't care about the product at all. Worst case/worst crime--the director did his best and thought this was good. Ugh.