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I don't like to read others' reviews when I feel the need to post a review of my own but I am sure that other viewers will have felt the same way. The entire budget of this film was wasted by the decision to cast the female lead as they did. This woman cannot act serving up a breakfast, she cannot act running in the forest, she cannot act being the object of a man's desire. The film location was stunning and the look of the film was at all times beautiful. The acting was fine most of the time when the female character was not centre stage. This could easily have been an acceptable piece of entertainment. Unfortunately it wasn't. No other aspect of the film offended me in any way so I don't feel the need to give it a 5 or below but what an error was made by whoever cast that person in that role.
Given a free night to watch the first film on my own since I was unemployed for a while, I recalled the one I could not in all good conscience have removed from my watchlist. The reason being that I had left my wife to watch it to the end while I, in drunken stupour, slept from maybe 15 minutes in. 30 minutes in on my second viewing, I now admire my post reemployment euphoria induced inebriation judgement. If I am pleasantly surprised at a later juncture, I am not above admitting I was wrong.
It's probably not the done thing to knock low budget efforts and I usually do not. I have seen plenty of films of this calibre that exhibit the usual clues that should warn you off but once I start something I am usually loathe to give up on it. The lousy sound, the poor to cringeworthy acting, WTF plot & unimpressive effects were tell-tale signs that this was another low budget film which would have me scoring it way below a basically alright, well intentioned, entertaining 8.0 and more towards the 3.0 I reserved for the disgusting "It's Alive" (2008 ) or the 1.0 for the "On The Buses" trilogy. The difference between this and so many other low budget films I have seen and scored slightly more highly without feeling the need to write a review is the irritation level. Throughout, the film-maker bombarded me with annoying noises, made worse by the atrocious sound quality. Almost every character had me telling them to shut up ( or worse ) at some point. 20 minutes in I felt that the actors deserved whatever fate was awaiting their characters. This was included with Amazon Prime membership. I think that Amazon should nevertheless be aiming much higher than this standard for it's "included in the price" content.