I'd been looking forward to this film after seeing it talked about online, but now that I’ve finally tracked it down, I’m not sure what to make of it. It felt somewhat exploitative visually. The beginning is incredibly weak; the purpose of including a blonde woman seems completely irrelevant to everything else in the movie. She's like one of those people who interrupts you just as you're leaving and then, instead of delivering some important revelation, says “never mind.” You’re left wondering what it was about, and I doubt it would have been considered award-worthy or particularly satisfying, but it was still frustrating. I wasn’t prepared for the scenes involving genital mutilation—or nearly so. If movies are going to include this kind of content, they really should advertise it beforehand so people can avoid it entirely because it made me want to die. The plot unfolds with a young woman encountering an activist who sparks her interest, and she immediately becomes an enthusiastic supporter, deciding to risk her life traveling to a remote location with a group of strangers who clearly view her as naive. She even ends up on the wrong side of the leader because his girlfriend has made it clear that our protagonist is interested in him, which explains her presence there. These people constantly shout accusations of virgin sacrifice. It was an incredibly misguided and thoughtless idea to take these wealthy white kids into a deprived area without considering they’d draw attention to themselves. One person even loudly discusses child abuse while observing a family transporting their tricycle on a bicycle—a truly remarkable display of how not to avoid unwanted attention. Everything is painfully obvious, and the movie seems to rely heavily on gore, which is surprisingly well-executed. There's a scene involving an eye that’s captured so realistically that if you can watch it without looking away or feeling uncomfortable, you probably belong with those people. They abandon their belongings and head straight into the jungle unarmed; is anyone genuinely surprised when the plane crashes and they find themselves in a terrible situation? Quite literally, one of them explodes from the anus, which was just another moment where I wondered what the point of the scene was. I didn’t need to see that. I did appreciate the character who resembled a bumblebee; he seemed to be the go-to person if you needed a body part chopped off for dinner and could have easily worked as a makeup artist—he really understood facial structure. Most of them were more upset by a scene involving feces than by witnessing each other being taken away one by one for torture. Again, I’ll say that the gore scenes were brutal and deserve some credit for that. Some parts are just plain stupid; one man actually masturbates after watching another person slice someone's neck open. Really, he does. While I support the activity itself, there’s a time and place for everything, and that wasn’t it. They drug the tribe to facilitate an escape plan, but I didn’t see any brilliance in this group. Also, nobody ever thought to remove their bright yellow suits—that would have seemed like a logical thing to do when trying to escape. I could think of better vacations than being stranded in a jungle and eaten by demonic smurfs.
On October 4, 2026
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