Top notch teenage trash

Rating: 2/10 (19 January 2008)

On the plus side: The execution of the film is professional for it's genre. Other then the start, the movie is well paced with good timing of surprises and changes. I found two moments in the film very immersive thanks to the camera work. I really enjoyed a few of the death scenes. I highly recommended for anyone that is young, or easily finds themselves engaged in a story.
On the trauma side: The immaturity, stupidity and predictability of the characters resulted in a totally ostrasizing and consequently unenjoyable film for me. Regrettably this stereotypical highly-emotive-I've- lost-access-to-99.8%-of-my-logic-capabilities attitude is present all the way through.
The start of the movie focuses on a home style party which I found very disengaging, slow and painfully like a real teenage home movie. This consequently left me largely disengaged for the rest of the movie (though I was desperately looking forward to certain characters dying). Overutilisation of the camera sytle (ie: the whole movie) trivialised it's potentially awesome impact.
In short, this is one of the most unejoyable movies I have seen for a fair while. Having said that, if I could switch my mind off, I could see why a lot of people have given it a great rating.