The Green Inferno (2013)

The Green Inferno: Directed by Eli Roth. With Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Daryl Sabara, Kirby Bliss Blanton. A group of student activists travels to the Amazon to save the rain forest and soon discover that they are not alone, and that no good deed goes unpunished.

“The Green Inferno (2013) u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e** 1/2 (out of 4)u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA group of college students decide to head to South America where theyu0026#39;re going to protest some developers who are damaging the rain forest and threatening a tribe that has lived there for thousands of years. Their plan doesnu0026#39;t quite work when their plane crashes in the jungle and soon the survivors have the unlucky fate of being served up for dinner.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eEli Rothu0026#39;s homage to the Italian cannibal movies of the 70s and early 80s is a rather mixed bag. After the movie was over I really didnu0026#39;t know what to think about it because there had been so much hype built around it. For the most part I donu0026#39;t think the film lived up to the hype but this is going to depend on your knowledge of the genre. If you have no idea what CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, EATEN ALIVE and CANNIBAL FEROX are then thereu0026#39;s a great chance that youu0026#39;re going to be shocked and horrified at what you see here. If youu0026#39;re familiar with those films then youu0026#39;re going to see THE GREEN INFERNO as a watered down American film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAgain, itu0026#39;s really hard to judge this movie but Iu0026#39;m overly familiar with the Italian cannibal movies so let me get that out of the way. I think this film is going to shock, outrage and gross out the majority of the people who watch it as thereu0026#39;s no question that this contains some of the most graphic and goriest violence that has ever been in an American film that had to go in front of the MPAA. How this got a R-rating is rather shocking in itself and it really makes you laugh when you watch something like this and think at one point something like SCREAM had to be cut to avoid a NC-17 rating. Again, the gore effects are rather great with many practical effects that are quite effective. The gore and violence, again, will shock most people.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWith that said, if youu0026#39;re familiar with the brutal films in the genre then youu0026#39;re not going to blink an eye here. Thereu0026#39;s really nothing shocking, outrageous or too graphic if youu0026#39;re familiar with the films that I mentioned before. This movie certainly doesnu0026#39;t have the animal violence but it also doesnu0026#39;t have the graphic rape, mutilations or any of the infamous moments from those films. Youu0026#39;d think that this homage would wink at those movies and their graphic moments but the film doesnu0026#39;t even try. This just gives the movie an overall watered down feel that fans of the genre are going to notice and especially when you consider that thereu0026#39;s not even any real nudity in the picture. If you canu0026#39;t show nudity then you know certain elements of violence arenu0026#39;t going to be shown.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI think another disappointing thing is that the jungle settings really arenu0026#39;t used. Those Italian movies worked so well because you could enjoy them as adventure stories but thatu0026#39;s not the case here. I will say that the build-up was a lot more entertaining than I expected it to be because the violence doesnu0026#39;t happen until the last portion of the movie. The performances are certainly better than youu0026#39;d expect with Lorenza Izzo making for a good and likable lead. The story itself is okay with some sly humor thrown in at times but then again there are some really stupid moments. Thereu0026#39;s one girl in the cage who gets u0026quot;sicku0026quot; and this scene is just downright stupid. Thereu0026#39;s an incredibly awful jump scare towards the end, which will have you rolling your eyes.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTHE GREEN INFERNO is a decent movie but at the same time it doesnu0026#39;t quite live up to all the hype that people have created for it the past couple years.”