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A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The movie is, The Forgotten Ones.(2009) Written and Directed by Jorg Ihle. Spoilers ahead, as I'm going to talk about it, on the positive side; Beautiful Costa Rica location shooting. Also on the positive side, umm, Good technical specs, Good sound, A workable score and acceptable editing. On the downer side, there seemed an earnest attempt to drag romantic issues into a horror show.The plot? Kids in jeopardy on an uncharted island. Expect the usual as one by one they are picked off, leaving at the end the one who did not think she had it in her to survive, a Ripley inclined heroine triumphs to tell the tale. Stock formula plot, seen before. The threat here are a people the locals call, the forgotten ones. An isolated cannibalistic tribe, Ah, the drama as Liz played by Jewel Staite. Is going for a fun excursion with her love interest Peter played by Justin Baldoni, who brings along his friends, and a couple of girlfriends to round out the victims, I mean cast.There you have the setup. I've seen better shipwrecks, I liked the one in the movie "Triangle " (2009) A large duration of this movie consists of implied menace, without showing the beasties, Standard Horror movie tradition. Much in the same style filming technique as was used in, "Predator" (1987) A rustle in the branches, type buildup.About halfway in the creatures reveal themselves. Along the line the list of victims grows. Eventually the plot reaches the lone survivor conclusion.The critters were not too bad in execution, quasi ape with a mean set of choppers and lots of hair.Acceptable level of credibility in the closeups. workable prosthetic's. . You will notice a goodly amount of fast editing in the chase scenes, the running was more implied by jump cuts than shown, very few shots of the actors playing the manamals actually running. For all that, the movie eventually runs out of clichés and arrives at a remorseful conclusion. Seven, "See the nice beach" Stars out of Ten

After being stranded on a strange island, a group of shipwrecked friends finds the area home to a tribe of savage human-like beings and forces them into an extreme mode of survival to get off the island alive.Overall this one was quite an entertaining effort without too much really wrong here. The biggest plus with this one is the fact that there's a rather engrossing mystery that develops here early on about what exactly's on the island with them and how to defend themselves, which is quite enjoyable for how it goes about this. The concept of being on an uncharted island is good enough to start this off with, but then comes the idea of putting the creatures on there which makes for quite an enjoyable time building up to them by the early ways this goes about it. From the off-screen grunting and growling to the scenes of them stealing their shipwrecked items and stalking them along the way to the first major encounter of them capturing several members of the group in ingenious rope-traps that scores quite well as an action sequence yet never once gives away the creatures and their design which is quite impressive. That's reserved for the first main confrontation in the caves where the remaining members of the expedition are kept to be tortured and killed within the darkened caves which is quite a feat to be done so late in the film but also with the rather chilling sequence it's done with as well making for a great time here as it rolls through the final half with a lot of impressive and enjoyable moments. The battle in the underground tunnels, the chase through the jungle leading to the revelation in the clearing and the final encounter at the enclosed circle of bamboo trees all combine into a great series of scenes that shows off the creatures quite well, gets plenty of action and suspense into this and even throws in some decent amount of gore to really work quite nicely. These do manage to hold off the few small flaws here, namely the fact that the film's not that interesting when focusing on the human cast as they're stories aren't that engaging. The purpose of inviting the ex and her new romantic interest seems only to generate tension within the group as there's little point in inviting them along on a trip like this in the first place, even inviting along the friend who's romantically unattached and going to be around his most recent ex-girlfriend makes his involvement even more questionable, and there's little about their interactions early on that comes off all that enjoyable. The other small flaw is the rather lackadaisical manner this treats the group who are knowingly stuck on the island and rarely react with any sense of urgency or intensity to get off considering the situation present and something obviously there with them. Otherwise, this one was pretty enjoyable.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

What a waste of time. The opening sequence takes place in the past and looks promising. But then...we get to the present. And it all goes downhill from there.The movie apes a lot of Predator sequences. But it's all a waste because the characters are really being chased by some kind of weird mutated bigfoot ape things.Everyone dies pretty fast, so that too, was a waste.Jewel's character is the only one left standing. And she ridiculously goes into Predator fightin mode. I'd say it jumps the shark right there.The ending is anticlimactic. And you just kind of sit there like, that's it??? Total waste of time. Jewel did give it her all, though. But sometimes even good acting cannot save a really bad movie.

This as the most meaningless, boring, plot less movie I think I have ever watched. When the movie started, the characters made me think it was going to be a worthwhile movie. Once they hit the island, it went straight downhill. We don't really know who or what the creatures are, if they are killing the people just because they happened to be there or if they were food, how they got intelligent enough to learn how to set traps and why, if this island had been explored before, why it wasn't on a map. The dumbest part in the movie is the fact that the only survivor smashes a radio that could lead to her rescue and hits the open seas in a rubber raft with a plastic paddle. The other big question was why they didn't kill her when they initially had her. I thought maybe she was pregnant and they were going to let her live for procreation purposes, but the writers weren't even smart enough to think of that as an option. At the beginning of the movie, we see that there are researchers there. Why did no one ever try to find them? The creatures were laughable, especially the female. Their posturing looked like they were trying to go to the bathroom with no success. This movie is a complete waste of time.