The Ruins Reviews
This was a good watch. Wasn’t expecting much out of it when I turned it on paramount plus but it was entertaining movie.
It fell apart at the end but it's was decent ✌🏾
This is a laughable storyline which can be summarised in one sentence: "a group of tourists visit a ruin and get killed off by tiny vines". The story is very lacking, and very illogical. Scenes where the plants are moving fast and by huge mass mean the rest of the scenes where they are hardly moving make little sense. No one tries to kill the plants with anything (they have fire) and it just seems like one cliché after another. Even watching the natives using salt to ward off the vines doesn't catch on with the main characters. I did watch it to the end so it partially entertained me for near two hours but I would not watch it again.
The natives are dumb. Why stay in that place anyway? Imagine that danger and you live with it everyday. If they work as guardians of the that ancient secret why shout frantically and kill the trespassers. Those are just plants for f sake that can throw do a bonfire over it. Sorry, the story is imaginative but totally unhinged.
I thought the movie was really good .good acting .good storyline ,I'm not sure why the low score on rotten tomatoes. It's definitely worth a look
In my top five of greatest horror movies ever. Body horror made real.
This is an excellent horror movie. It's not the scariest movie I've ever seen but great story which can be difficult to find in a horror. Don't know how it got such a low rating
A terrible waste of what could have been an interesting film
I remember seeing this when it first came out, and on second viewing in 2024 I think it holds up well. The script is well written, the characters are not your average American idiots, the sense of encroaching doom is unsettling. I'm just not going to throw this movie under the bus like so many other audience reviewers have. If you compare it against a lot of the dross that's come out since Covid, I think it stands up well as a neat little horror. I like it.
I really liked this. It was somthing completely different and unexpected. It had a few really good twists and "holy crap" moments. Clearly wasn't a big budget movie but for what it I was I thought it was really good.
The film does wear that "late-2000's horror" era on its sleeve a bit to its detriment, but the actors give it their all and the horror in the movie is [still] pretty damn horrifying. - fine 🍅
I love shitty horror movies, this is peak bad horror and it's great.
It was ok, but with a very lousy ending.
Not that great, very anti climatic ending ... I wanted to know if she spread it
Not really what I was expecting but still serviceable entertainment. It has a different kind of horror which focuses on body gore and the psychology of the threat rather than true fear or creeping dread. There's some pretty big plot holes and the ending was rather anticlimactic, but the different kind of entity and good acting performances kept me interested if not enthralled.
It's an interesting idea, but the script is a little feeble and it never hit the spot for me. Lots of nasty things happen to college kids in the jungle. It's not what it looked like from the first few minutes - I was certain that the German guy (Mathias) was going to lure the Americans into the temple to murder them, but it's nothing like that at all. I felt more sorry for Mathias than anyone else by the end.
PROS: Leading with a gripping opening sequence, with a band of convincing actors whom ultimately failed to support the meandering plot, this film carries an abstract and ambitious concept that was demised by its lack of cohesiveness and neglect of creativity. Why did they kill off the hot guy so early?…
Why was Amy down the well shouting for help at the beginning of the movie if she escaped in the jeep at the end?
Bad acting combined with poor idea for a movie. Painful to watch