Meh!

Rating: 2/10 (29 March 2012)

A rather emphatic "meh"...
What was with all the herky-jerky camera moves?!? I know it wasn't made by a major studio but couldn't Lionsgate afford tripods? Why were so many shots intentionally out of focus?!? The shaking-camera routine wasn't saved by the story, which was anti-climatic overall. The whole middle portion had me checking my watch. There just wasn't any compelling action or suspense - at all.
And further not helping was the bland kid actors used, who weren't given any favors by the writers by being such under written characters that I couldn't care less if they all died, and the sooner the better.
The only redeeming things in the whole movie are Stanley Tucci and Woody Harrelson but even then, their characters are only noteworthy because the rest of the film was so forgettable.
Throughout I was constantly reminded of other, better films like First Blood, The Running Man and The Truman Show.
Meh indeed!