Watching this movie is a waste of 90 minutes!

Rating: Null/10 (17 July 2000)

When the "Blair Witch Project" was in theaters I resisted the hype and did not see it. Last night, "free" on TV, I spent the 90 minutes watching, hoping for something thrilling. Nothing ever came.
Heather, Mike and Josh, actors, play "Heather", "Mike", and "Josh", characters. They are students doing a project and get lost in the woods, camping there several nights. There is absolutely *zero* character development, *zero* inventiveness in dialog, and *zero* believability in their plight. The first 85 minutes you follow them through the woods, listening to their teenage dialog with the "F-word" used 2 or 3 times each sentence. When they meet their fate, you don't care one bit about them. At least I didn't.
Still, I give it a generous "3" of "10" for the novelty of the idea. However, as movies go, this one is simply a good "school project" quality. It in no way deserves to be in the same category as any of the above-average films made these days.
All the favorable comments come from teenagers. Perhaps one of ten mature adults would find this film at all worth watching. I certainly did not. But I'm glad I satisfied my curiosity. How can we recognize truly meaningless films unless we see some occasionally??