THE RUINS Film Review - 25/7/08

Years ago around the 1950's they produced films like this. They were called B-Movies and on a double-feature you would get the B-Movie first and that would lead into the better (supposedly) Main Feature. Starting off quite well as B-Movie's do, you then get to the finale when the monster is revealed and you would then laugh at how awful it was. In "The Ruins" we get the same sort of thing. After a gang of teenagers traipse out to a Mayan temple off the beaten track with a German friend in tow things really fall apart after the sheer scale of boredom when nothing much happens. Chuck in some gore, screaming & shouting with the obligatory silly ending - and there you have it - An hour and a half of your life wasted! Expect it on some crappy cable channel late at night in about a year's time if not sooner and then totally forgotten about.