Awful!! It's trying too hard.

Rating: 1/10 (22 June 2010)

My husband and I were looking for something to rent when he came across this movie. The high ratings cinched it for him and he didn't read any reviews because he didn't want to read any spoilers, that was the first mistake. The second was watching this tripe and the third was slogging through the whole thing because we refused to simply turn it off hoping beyond hope that it would improve as it went on. It didn't.
The premise of the movie, although predictable (gypsy puts a curse on a woman, woman tries to remove it) can still be done if it's don't well. It wasn't. The movie started out well but got increasingly sillier to the point that my husband and I were literally openly groaning during some scenes.
The two main actors give horrible performances. Justin Long phones his lines in and looks like a drowning man as the film progresses. If he didn't fire his agent, he should.
Alison Lohman as the lead is absolutely awful. It's obvious she tried to do her best with the material but nothing could save the tired script and ridiculous scenes. Incidentely, there was NO chemistry whatsoever between the two leads even though they are supposed to be in a long term relationship. He could have been her brother.
So, I think in the end what happened to this film was Sam Raimi himself. It's TRYING TOO HARD. The reason Evil Dead was such a fun franchise was because the first film wasn't trying to be a cult classic. This movie reeks of desperation. It wants so much to be a cult classic that it sacrifices all the things that make a cult classic, quotable lines, good acting, and an interesting story.
In the end this is a skip, you will thank me.