As the title indicates, this film is woeful and is the worst I've seen for quite some time. The story, the acting, the "creature". The whole lot. Not one thing about this movie has a redeeming quality about it. Right from the off, you just knew that this was going to be a substandard film.
The story itself, while nothing new, isn't too bad, but it's the execution along with the terrible dialogue that makes it poor. And of course the acting which is extremely wooden. It feels that the actors are just out of drama class for the day. Actors can have off moments and films where even the best put in a subpar performance, and I hope for these actors' careers that's what this was because if it wasn't, well they should either stay in drama class to learn more or give it up.
Nothing really fits storywise either. We've got 5 English kids with an American bus driver along with an English "bad guy" (whose name is Pedro, by the way).....in Italy! Unless I missed it because my brain was already switching off, there's no explanation as to WHY the 5 English kids are even there. There are also just random bits of conversation that pops up for no apparent reason that don't add anything to the development of the story. For instance, when Pedro turns to one of the kids and just starts talking about comic books. It's just a terrible mish-mash of conversation.
As for the characters themselves, well only a couple didn't really annoy me (were still pretty lacking in performance by the actors, but we're the best of a bad bunch), but Pedro was by far the worst (although it was close between him and Karl & Reggie). He didn't come across as threatening, wasn't intimidating and just kept coming out with moronic threats for other people to do something that were out of their control, like getting Reggie (who didn't know how to drive in the 1st place) to start a bus where the engine was completely dead! He just looked like a bum waving a gun about. As for the "creature", well, um yeh, OK.
How a good few people have rated this so highly is beyond me and makes me wonder if they are either just friends of the cast/crew or watched the same film as me. Honestly, do yourself a favour and give this a miss. You're not missing anything and you'll save yourself some mental anguish at the same time.
The story itself, while nothing new, isn't too bad, but it's the execution along with the terrible dialogue that makes it poor. And of course the acting which is extremely wooden. It feels that the actors are just out of drama class for the day. Actors can have off moments and films where even the best put in a subpar performance, and I hope for these actors' careers that's what this was because if it wasn't, well they should either stay in drama class to learn more or give it up.
Nothing really fits storywise either. We've got 5 English kids with an American bus driver along with an English "bad guy" (whose name is Pedro, by the way).....in Italy! Unless I missed it because my brain was already switching off, there's no explanation as to WHY the 5 English kids are even there. There are also just random bits of conversation that pops up for no apparent reason that don't add anything to the development of the story. For instance, when Pedro turns to one of the kids and just starts talking about comic books. It's just a terrible mish-mash of conversation.
As for the characters themselves, well only a couple didn't really annoy me (were still pretty lacking in performance by the actors, but we're the best of a bad bunch), but Pedro was by far the worst (although it was close between him and Karl & Reggie). He didn't come across as threatening, wasn't intimidating and just kept coming out with moronic threats for other people to do something that were out of their control, like getting Reggie (who didn't know how to drive in the 1st place) to start a bus where the engine was completely dead! He just looked like a bum waving a gun about. As for the "creature", well, um yeh, OK.
How a good few people have rated this so highly is beyond me and makes me wonder if they are either just friends of the cast/crew or watched the same film as me. Honestly, do yourself a favour and give this a miss. You're not missing anything and you'll save yourself some mental anguish at the same time.