Minority View

Rating: 1/10 (24 February 2007)

What prompted me to see this film was, quite frankly, noting the rating of 98 it received on the MetaCritic website. I've never seen a rating that high here before, and it peaked my interest.
Then, just to be sure, I visited Rotten Tomatoes, and found a rating almost as high. This plus the 8+ general public rating sealed the deal. This film must be pretty good!
Unfortunately, I found it to be murky, muddy and muddled; long on horror, short on fantasy, and filled with brutality, blood an torture.
It didn't help that the multiplex where I saw it had the most ear-splitting volume I'd ever experienced in a theater.
I'm not sorry I'm with the minority on this one. It's a picture I'd rather not learn to appreciate, and one I'd rather forget.
In short, I'm happy to be an outsider here.