Detour

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Summary: Detour
Review: I was suprised. I started this movie, and very quickly I felt like I was in for a night of boredom. And that held for about 15 minutes or so in to the movie. Then the characters started to grow on me a bit,even the white ebonics guy. And then things started to get really freaky! The cast works very well once they get a hold on their characters, and everyone gives their all. Yes, there are annoying elements, like the white ebonics guy, but even he starts to grow during the movie, and towards the end I wanted him to live, just like the rest of the group. The soundtrack works very well, and has a little bit of techno, a little bit of rock, and a little bit of actually scoring that sounds amazing. There are also some very well shot scenes, and the movie looks very professional. While not the best movie ever, and far from original (it's like Wrong Turn meets The Hills Have Eyes meets Scream meets a zombie movie), it is still one of the better straight to video outings that has been released recently. And to top it all off, it has a great sense of humor at times, making some of the slower scenes, and scenes of character building enjoyable. So I give it four stars. The only thing holding it back from five is the first 15 minutes or so.

Rating:
Summary: Pretty Good
Review: I was suprised. I started this movie, and very quickly I felt like I was in for a night of boredom. And that held for about 15 minutes or so in to the movie. Then the characters started to grow on me a bit,even the white ebonics guy. And then things started to get really freaky! The cast works very well once they get a hold on their characters, and everyone gives their all. Yes, there are annoying elements, like the white ebonics guy, but even he starts to grow during the movie, and towards the end I wanted him to live, just like the rest of the group. The soundtrack works very well, and has a little bit of techno, a little bit of rock, and a little bit of actually scoring that sounds amazing. There are also some very well shot scenes, and the movie looks very professional. While not the best movie ever, and far from original (it's like Wrong Turn meets The Hills Have Eyes meets Scream meets a zombie movie), it is still one of the better straight to video outings that has been released recently. And to top it all off, it has a great sense of humor at times, making some of the slower scenes, and scenes of character building enjoyable. So I give it four stars. The only thing holding it back from five is the first 15 minutes or so.

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Summary: barely decent, huge hills have eyes ripoff
Review: If it wasn't for the two hot main chicks, I wouldve just turned it off. The main 'i'm white, but think i'm black' guy was very annoying. I wish they wouldve killed him. The easy to kill villains looked too human. The main big one was decent. It had some good gore, but i dont think its worth waiting for. The only reason I would recommend it is to make fun of it. One pet peeve about horror movies is when a truck is chasing you down a dirt road, get off the damn road!

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Summary: detour
Review: Not a bad movie, the only thing that was unbearable 100% of the time was the video quality. I've never ever seen such poor video compression and DVD authoring in my life. There are awful jagged flickering lines at the top and bottom of the screen. It's really really poor.

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Summary: Steer clear of this Detour!
Review: This Movie was a huge let down. I knew from the start that it was going to be a low budget rip off, trying to cash in on the moderate success of Wrong Turn. I still thought it would provide an evening of mindless entertainment. The script did not give the actors and director much to work with. It was full of lame dialogue and had a weak story. There was really no background or explanation for the cannibals that I could find and the setup was about as unoriginal as you can get. The acting was pretty lousy as well. Plus the picture quality was very poor even for straight to video. The worst thing about it was the ridiculous main cannibal. What was going on with that big guy's eyebrows...if it were not for the laugh I got from that this would have been a total waste.

Rating:
Summary: Detour
Review: This movie wasn't quite what I expected it to be. It reminds me a lot of Wrong Turn, except in the desert, with cannibals. The girl in the beginning bares a resemblance to Gothika, also. This has to be one of the most gory movies I have seen in a while and it is great.