It Took a Wrong Turn

Rating: 6/10 (6 November 2011)

I'm not a softy per se, but a film of this magnitude and suspense leaves you with an empty feeling when the #1 hero of the film DIES at the end. See, the whole movie is intended to make you apprehensive as to whether they will "make it" or not, not just save the world. So, at the end, when you're supposed to be putting your fist up in the air saying "yeah!," you're having a let down because Bruce Willis is walking off to his death, essentially. I would have preferred an ending in the "Bruce Willis Style".... you know, he and his crew DO come back, and he gets back to NASA to deck the guy responsible for not allowing him to finish the mission he was told the crew was hired for... even if it HAD to be the President of the United States! I really felt like this would have been a "9" movie if not for the killing of the main hero. But this movie took my emotions and built them up, up, up, and then right before the end, they changed the "excitement" I was feeling into a huge sorrow... and that's not the way I wanted to feel at the end of this exciting movie with characters I grew fond of. It's sort of like killing off Will Smith or Jeff Goldblum at the end of Independence Day.... it just didn't WORK for me, sorry........