real yawner

Rating: 5/10 (10 June 2010)

perhaps mild spoiler-alert.
OK so I'm a little late to the party, this movie is 10 years old. I never got around to seeing this new but post now because given its rating expected something a whole lot better.
I realize anyone under 14 may not know what "cliché" means but while I had small hopes this wouldn't be as bad as its cast of nobodies, headed by a poser lead more suited to brief bit-work indicated it should be, it was. "cliché-laden" is all that comes to mind. I could only watch about half the movie - nothing is any fun when every strand of a film is nothing but one overworked cliché priming the next overworked cliché.
it was often nonsensical as well. a body is savaged to the point the area he disappeared was awash in blood. yet the 'villain', clean as a whistle moments after, is still ridiculously and repeatedly accused of knifing the victim to death, ostensibly only because the movie's lameness required it.
where I gave up is their mad dash to do something before the solar eclipse occurs. you see, bad things happen when it gets dark. so our band heads to another site (for some reason) to madly collect all their gear (for some reason), and get back to where they started (for some reason), before the eclipse occurs. why? I have no idea. I've never been in an eclipse but do know they last for minutes then viola! sun and light are back to normal. so my best guess why someone didn't just say "hey, we'll lockdown for a few minutes and *then* at a leisurely pace go get our gear" is because that would only use up 10 seconds of film.
cliché-ridden, mindlessly contrived, a lead for whom saying he's one-dimensional is too kind; this is a 4, maybe a stretch as a 5. the current 7? not even close.