Not worth the time

Rating: 1/10 (14 March 2006)

The Hills Have Eyes is a waste of time and money. If you go to the theater to disengage your brain and stare at the screen, you will not agree with me. Others have commented that 'nothing is left to the imagination' as if that is a good thing. For a movie to scare me it has to get into my head, and to get in my head I have to think about it. That doesn't happen here. It's just one cardboard character after another doing the same things thousands of other cardboard characters have done. The 'tension' between father-in-law and son-in-law has been beat to death. The happy family going against their best judgment and taking the mysterious short cut is one of the most ragged clichés known to movie goers. The gore is pointless, especially following the release of Hostel. If they wanted to push this movie past others in this genre, they should have killed the baby. I'll finish this rant with a true story. As the credits began to roll, a guy in the row behind me stood up and declared, 'That movie sucked!'...and every single person in the theater applauded in agreement.