That was an excellent one.

Beautiful, moving film.

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

A really slow start - skip to about 0:20 or 0:25 or so, a few minutes before the earthquake starts. After that it's just one d*amned thing after another when the earthquake cracks open the prison and the inmates run wild. Rather grisly and unpleasant scenes, but not unrealistic, which just made them worse.

I gave this movie a 2 instead of a 1 because it DOES very accurately show what being in the middle of a catastrophic (I'd say this was a 9.5+ sized quake) earthquake, the brutal casualties, and the near instant breakdown in society that would occur.What this movie does NOT do is provide any excitement or momentum. It is a gore splattered orgy of rape, torture and graphic violence, using no-name model types and one token pig fat guy.The movie starts off very slowly, following a group of 3 men on their Chile vacation as they plan a rock show and attend a rave. And a wine tour. Boring as heck. The dialog is cringy. For some reason Selena Gomez shows up randomly for 30 secs so our main guy can hit on her, then vanishes.Finally, after what seems an eternity, the earthquake hits. The earthquake is very realistic. Expect to see many many people crushed to pulp, decapitations, a guy losing his hand and everyone stepping on it, then the dogs run off with it. The 3 guys and their boopsy dates and the one 'normal' chick run for their lives to try to get handy to the hospital. But they run into a mob of escaped convicts instead, who proceed to rape the girls nearly to death and light one of the guys on fire with lighter fluid. Then a guy gets chopped up with an axe. This movie makes Texas Chainsaw Massacre seem like a Disney flick. This movie should have been rated 18A. Our characters run from one bloody horror scene to the next, with no plot, no direction, horrible acting and horrible lines. That's the movie. But you can't look away, it's like one gigantic train wreck, slowly drifting by...

This is my first review and will try to keep it as short as possible because, hating to bust on any aspiring authors or critics out there most of us don't read the long reviews. There's no need to write a 2,000 word synopsis on any movie,show or whatever here, IMDb already does that for us. We just wanna know if it's any good or not.... oops I guess there goes keeping this short.Anyways, I just watched it this morning so while it's fresh in my mind, is this movie any good?If you like horror, action and/or adventure (along the line of Jaws, though this is no Jaws) you might enjoy this. It has its action, experiencing and trying to escape the earthquake. It's got its scary, borderline intense moments of terror and lots'a blood n' gore. Oh yeah and bonus, some annoying hipsters get killed! Add in a couple of "didn't see that coming" plot twists, a fun ending and you may start moving towards the edge of your seat but, I don't think you'll make it all the way there.Bottom line, it's not a particularly moving piece of cinema but,if you got an hour and a half to kill and you're not paying for it (like me I caught it on cable) It's still better than a lot of the other crap I've seen lately on TV so it's coming in at a solid, watchable but not earth-shaking 6

Another lame, misogynistic, unwatchable murder porn piece from Eli Roth. I guess this is another movie from his "Do not travel to XXX" series or something. I really do not understand why there are some countries yet that allow this guy to shot flicks on their ground as the resulting picture is always overwhelmingly negative.So the guy who hates all the humanity decided to introduce Chile to the world. It is full of murderers, rapists, egoists, corrupt people an it seems to be quite understandable that this hole of sin must be cleared in way of tremors, fire, waves, rape, murder and such funny attractions. Every good deed from the American tourists will be punished and only the most annoying character will remain as it fits the perverted world of sin and sickness pictured by the Great Misogynist.Well, let's stop to call this "cinematography" and let's call it slightly informative murder porn instead. This is clearly intended for people who somehow like murder porn yet do not want to download it from the servers in Ukraine where such porn is provided for a fee. They are probably afraid that these sick foreigners will suck their funds from a credit card so this movie seems to be somewhat safer alternative.Those who love catastrophic movie will pick other titles like Bolge (The Wave) from Norway. It is also very dark but realistic and does not assume every non-Western human is a sick bastard in the depths of his heart.