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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

As Good As It Gets

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

In 1985, Avery (Zoë Bell) is an award winning photojournalist whose personal life appears to be a mess from what little we see. She accepts an assignment filming rebels in Columbia. The army consists of about 6 people lead by a general...just go with it. After 30 minutes, the film hits a boredom factor, then an incident happens where Avery becomes hunted by the rebels she was filming. Zoe must use everything but her feminine charms to survive, although some background on her survival skills, other than one workout, would have been good.Like so most action films, it doesn't deviate from successful formulas and can't develop a good twist. I am sure Zoe bell fans who like to see her bloody and beat up will love the film, but her physical fighting skills were left mostly on the table, i..e. had they been developed earlier, in just one scene, they could of had her do more exciting stuff other than lay on the ground and get beat and her head banged against rocks.Guide: F-word. Near Rape. No nudity. Theme spoiler: There is a running dialogue about the spiral. In ancient times the spiral or maze represented the umbilical cord and motherhood, i.e. life. In this film it represents our common journey to the center, which is death. Hence the title CAMINO. Clearly the theme was deeper and better thought out than the plot.

Other reviewers have described the story of this film, so I won't repeat. Suffice it to say, for me, all aspects of this film drew me in and the tension built up and the whole thing drew me into it. Our star, Avery (Zoe Bell) actually handled her camera and shooting quite well, aided by great photography by the movie cameraman and black and white freeze-frames to give us the pictures she took. This was charming. Then she takes posed pictures of the team that she is following and the flash goes off unexpectedly. This would not happen in real life, you would hear the flash charging whine first, but we will ride through this because it was important later on, that the flash should go off unexpectedly at a very bad time and so change the whole temperament of the film and the gnawing tension of a chase that followed. I kept wanting Avery (Bell) to strike some big moves in her fighting, but it became clear that she was true to her character, that she was really a photographer put in a life-or-death situation and had to fight the best way she could, and she had not trained secretly as some marshal-arts champ. Fine, she took an awful beating several times, but she came out the winner, however reluctantly she was forced to fight. The chases through the jungle were very well filmed and kept me on the edge of my seat. No joking, it must have been an incredible effort to actually film all of that in tropical jungle, mountains and rivers and waterfalls and still get exciting shots and angles that forced the action forward. Nacho Vigalondo as Guillermo, the leader of the group, was very believable and did not let us down as some debauched war monger but he gave us a stirring performance, a beautiful monologue and an understandable character who had to do what he had to do. On the other hand, I am still not sure how Alejo (Tenoch Huerta) could have come back from the dead in the last part of the film, not sure whether it was meant to all be in Avery's mind as a hallucination, or not, but it was exciting. On the whole, I felt this film was believable, exciting, dangerous, in glorious tropical jungle, well photographed and portrayed under what must have been difficult circumstances. All actors gave us believable characters. Great entertainment. What more can you want?

As I'm writing this, Camino has a score of 4.8, which is an excessively low score. I've actually noticed a trend on IMDb where a lot of films are given extremely poor ratings when they're just not that bad and Camino is definitely one of these films. It's unfortunate because I know some people will watch or not watch a film based on the IMDb score, which means a lot of good or decent movies are probably being missed out on.A lot of other reviewers are complaining of bad acting, but I can only assume they are exaggerating or just haven't watched a wide range of films. The acting is not "bad" - it's not necessarily award-winning stuff, but it's certainly not bad. Usually, if I'm watching a film with bad acting, I find it difficult to get into as I can't become absorbed in it and am constantly aware that I'm watching (bad) actors, but that never happened once to me while watching Camino. I think Zoe Bell is actually very impressive for a stunt-woman-turned- actress.Also, do not skip the first ten minutes of the film as another reviewer said, it is relevant to the film and what happens during the first ten minutes helps to make sense of another scene that happens around midway through the film.The only thing I would criticize is that Zoe Bell's character seems a little too skilled in combat for a photojournalist going up against militia members who've presumably had experience in guerilla warfare. It's saved, though, by the fact that most of the fighting lacks any crazy martial arts moves on Zoe Bell's part and instead sticks to dirty, survival style fighting, maintaining an element of realism.Overall, I think this movie is pretty solid and I've definitely seen a lot worse.

"The spiral is death." I had no idea who Zoë Bell really was. Afterwards she appears to be a famous stunt woman who has repeatedly demonstrated her skills in Quentin Tarantino movies. It's not the first time she acted in a movie. You can admire her in "Oblivion" and also in "The hateful Eight". This time, however, she got the main part. Unfortunately her character is too one-dimensional to judge her on her acting talent. Substantively it's of the same level as a role played by Gina Carano. After seeing some impressive fight scenes I knew she's one hell of a stunt woman. Sadly enough these scenes were sometimes unrealistic, when you take her character into account.Avery (Zoe Bell) is a well-respected war photographer who, after receiving an award, is promptly planted on an aircraft by her editor. The destination is Columbia where she can make a photo shoot of a paramilitary group, led by the charismatic revolutionary Guillermo (Nacho Vigalondo). They act like local pharmacists in the Colombian jungles. In reality, Guillermo is nothing more than a crazy psychopath who's using this sacred mission as a cover up for his own criminal activities. When Avery makes some compromising photographs of a murderous Guillermo, he succeeds in convincing his crew that the foreign photographer is the culprit. And that's the beginning of a hunt through the jungle with Avery as a prey.Until the first encounter with one of Guillermo's freedom fighters, this film seemed promising. After the obligatory introduction, you will see beautiful images of the vast jungle. A wonderful mix of images of a subtropical jungle and stylistic black and white photographs. Even the sometimes exaggerated speeches of Guillermo were acceptable up to a certain level. But when Avery becomes a Rambo-like guerrilla fighter, who can defend herself excellent on unknown territory, the film lost a lot of credibility. I am sure Zoë Bell can stand her ground as a stunt woman. But when the person Avery, who's a grim war photographer, turns into a talented person who excels in close combat, knows how to use an automatic rifle and uses tactical combat strategies, that's a bridge too far. In reality, she wouldn't even survive her first clash with the lunatic Alejo (Tenoch Huerta).I was hoping this would be a brooding, exciting thriller. But in the end I only got to see a typical survival film. It made me think of "Predator" sometimes, but now without an alien. Guillermo's followers are being released one by one to hunt their victim. It's just waiting for the ultimate clash (with a ridiculous outcome) to present itself. The only downside about this taking place in the jungle, is the fact that it's mostly dark. This makes it sometimes really difficult to follow the action. The performances are proportionate to the level of the film itself. But I need to say there's one thing that really got my attention. The soundtrack. The musical accompaniment is usually not something I pay attention to, but this time I was surprised by the ominous music full of unusual sounds. Ominous during critical moments and mysterious in between. For me, the creator of this soundtrack is the true star of this movie.More reviews here : http://bit.ly/1KIdQMT