Four college kids go to Mexico for spring break or whatever and on their last day follow a couple dudes to go to visit some ruins. When they get there some villagers yell and kill one of them and make it clear that they are not going to let them leave. Turns out the vines running up and down the temple kill people. So the killer in this movie is some weeds. I think the people who gave this movie the green light were smoking some killer weed. (Ben Stiller is a producer).
I like a good brainless horror movie as much as the next guy, but weeds? And the weeds only actually kill one of them (by going down a guys throat... oooohh!). It's one of those movies where "in the end the victims become the villains" thing which is super lame in this case, especially when a character dies by getting stabbed, by doing the exact same thing another character did less than a minute earlier.
2/10
Breathless dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Guy steals a car, kills a cop, and then tries to sleep with a girl and get her to go to Rome with him. They run around and hang out while he tries to get some money some guy owes him. Meanwhile the police are closing in.
This movie is really cool. Simple but effective. Really made me want to be a car thief in France in the 50's. Has a really loose feel. I guess a lot of it was written and filmed the same day, with the actors getting fed their lines. Ends like most New Wave movies I've seen. I would really like to see the Criterion version, because the picture is probably a lot better then on the version I got from Blockbuster.
8.5/10
63/150
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