Meh....maybe if you're 14

Rating: 4/10 (29 June 2013)

I'll start my review saying I guess this is on the watchable side of 4/10. I gave up on the last ten minutes of the film, simply because I watched an even worse movie previous and I was starting to feel like I was wasting my whole day off work.
Regaurdless, I will start by saying this movie really seemed like 6 studio heads at a table saying "ok, I'm sure this project will make a few bucks just on curiosity, let's green light it" It's written very simply, and felt more like a paycheck for a guild writer than and experience. The common, illogical path to locations named "the witches layer" to prevent events that coincide with "the blood moon ritual" seem like everything you've ever seen before with the least creative story to bring them to those plot points.
It's a movie that can be associated with the phrase "left you wanting more" , except in the literal sense, it's such drab and dry path, you're thankful there isn't "more"
I'm not a Renner fan, the mans beard looks like my fathers receding hair line (thankfully he's clean shaven for once) but on this one occasion, even he seemed in a different league than everyone else. At least he tried to deliver his lines in a natural manner, so there's respect for his chops. Gemma Arterton on the other hand was an absolute burden from her first scene. I'll give her some slack, because most of her speaking parts were written terribly and generic, but her acting still turned me off like a Plague rat.
If you ever wondered what a screenplay written over lunch would look like, this film would be it. The gore was so surprising it was almost enjoyable, but other than that this is just one repackaged cliché.
In a world of steak it's simply just spam