(May contain minor spoilers)
Sometimes I like movies from the IMDb's bottom 100 and can't understand why they stand there. But in the case of "Soul Survivors" at least I can imagine.
"Soul Survivors" is not a typical trash movie as some might expect. It delievers nice pictures (especially from the club), got a nice score and camera&actors are solid. Even the story isn't bad in general.
What really sucks is the story-telling. After 1/3 of the film the audience most likely believes that Cassie is halluzinating, she's not really hunted and that there's no real danger for her at all. Then these scenes of being hunted reappear multiple times on different locations which is extremely boring if you know that it's not for real and she's not in danger. That's where the audience's identification with the characters gets finally lost.
Also the characters have been developed carelessly and are not really believable. Ok, you may explain that with the "everthing's not real"-argument but - however - it doesn't help to establish a link between the audience and the characters.
So I finally sat there, watching nice pictures and listening to the nice score, not caring what happens next. After the kitschy and unsatisfactory end, I already started forgetting this movie, which should be considered as boring, not bad.
(3 out of 10)
Sometimes I like movies from the IMDb's bottom 100 and can't understand why they stand there. But in the case of "Soul Survivors" at least I can imagine.
"Soul Survivors" is not a typical trash movie as some might expect. It delievers nice pictures (especially from the club), got a nice score and camera&actors are solid. Even the story isn't bad in general.
What really sucks is the story-telling. After 1/3 of the film the audience most likely believes that Cassie is halluzinating, she's not really hunted and that there's no real danger for her at all. Then these scenes of being hunted reappear multiple times on different locations which is extremely boring if you know that it's not for real and she's not in danger. That's where the audience's identification with the characters gets finally lost.
Also the characters have been developed carelessly and are not really believable. Ok, you may explain that with the "everthing's not real"-argument but - however - it doesn't help to establish a link between the audience and the characters.
So I finally sat there, watching nice pictures and listening to the nice score, not caring what happens next. After the kitschy and unsatisfactory end, I already started forgetting this movie, which should be considered as boring, not bad.
(3 out of 10)
