Too predictable at times

Rating: 6/10 (6 October 2012)

The main problems I have with this film is:
1. It had the longest scene in it I ever watched in a film, that I could predict entirely. The culprit is an entirely redundant shot with a CGI eagle at the start of the film. Who thought it would be a good idea to put that in?
2. There are many other scenes that gave me a similar feeling of wasted time by making me think: "yes, I get the point, this refers to a famous horror movie, please move on to the rest of the story."
3. The actual premise of the film, the stuff that could make it interesting, is compressed into the quite short ending and was mostly predictable from the start.
'The Cabin in the Woods' gives away too many hints from the start on. Drop those hints and it would become more interesting, at the condition that the viewer didn't already pick up the hints elsewhere like in the trailer, a short summary, or reviews. If you don't know anything yet about the film and this is the first review you read, stop reading if you plan to watch it. The less you know about it, the higher the chance that it will be interesting.
Overall, the film was entertaining enough that I would give it a 6/10, but it was far from the great and original experience I expected it to be from other reviews.