Waste of time

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

PROS: The best part of this film was the build up in tension. This movie is the epitome of a white knuckle film. Even before you're through the credits you feel unsettled. Another thing that I liked was the script. It was so raw and vile, it was able to put you in a very uncomfortable place very quickly. This was helped greatly by the actors in the movie. The two main actors did a phenomenal job at capturing the characters true selves. I really felt that these people were real. To add on, the scenario in which the movie took place seems very probable as well. This helped build on the fear of the movie. The more realistic something seems the more scary it will feel. The final thing that made this movie great was the amount of plot holes in the story line, or the lack there of. The main "bad guy" did a lot of things that felt very unnatural, but if you look further into the character development you could see that he was a very impulsive man. To finalize, everything was able to be conducted smoothly due to a well thought out plot.CONS: The only thing that was irksome was the ending. It felt very "been there done that" while at the same time it felt very why??? If that makes sense. To not give too much away, the last few minutes of the film didn't feel as genuine as the rest of the film.www.chorror.com

A girl named Mallory drives from California to Oregon for her wedding. Somewhere in the desert the fiancée's old car she's driving brakes down. As luck would have it a hiker appears who gets her car started again, after he takes his shirt off for no good reason. She offers him a ride and insists on dropping him off at a cabin were he's staying. Out of the blue he starts telling her offensive sexual stuff. She stops and asks him to get off her car. He pulls out a knife and keep driving. He's not wearing his seat belt so she figures she can get out of this by driving the car off the road and down a cliff.The car ends up upside down and her foot stuck in the instrument panel. They guy was ejected but eventually gets up uninjured and just leaves her there after realizing her terrible situation. He comes back a couple of times to taunt her. He brings food and drinks that he consumes in front of her without sharing. Then he brings a bag of tools with a nailgun to threaten her and leaves her with a saw in case she wants to get out.I think she spends 3 night in the car with a lighter and a bottle of water. Fortunately it rains so she gets some more water but at some point she gets hungry. All there is nearby...rats. Finally the rain gets really bad and the river moves the car. That allows her to free herself.Meanwhile the guy manages to kidnap a cop and take him to the cabin that he's taken over. Mallory limps to the very same cabin, discovers what's going on there and will have to confront the bad guy eventually.Curve is one of those very minimalistic thrillers--two actors and most of the movie taking place in just one setting. And even though acting isn't Julianne Hough's talent, the movie works. It's well directed and looks good. They even added some depth to the script as when the stranger muses about all the factors that had to come together for these two to meet. The unfortunate lesson the movie wants to teach though is don't be good to strangers. The guy's motivation seems to be to get back at those who help him. He offered her many chances to let him go, but she insisted and now he can't but make her suffer for it. Not a good message for society where trust is hard to come by already.

Have you ever watched a movie so bad you were cheering for the bad guy? This is one of those. At least, the bad guy had some depth to his character. The protagonist in this movie is a girl on her way to Denver to get married. Like any bad horror movie, she decides to take the path less traveled and ends up stranded with a broken car. Enter seemingly nice guy who helps her fix it and that's where the movie begins. I was intrigued in the beginning, the movie adds refreshing spin to the stranger-danger tale but it runs into the same problem all horror movies based on recycled plots usually do: how to make the end interesting and memorable. This movie doesn't. The last 30 mins were painful to watch, I almost didn't finish it because it went from a great slow-paced "what will happen next?" To a "revenge" theme almost abruptly. I'd rather have them stick to tried and true endings that work. As for the characters, shallow and completely undeveloped. Be prepared for tons of "hoarse" voice 'HELP' scene. The antagonist is quite interesting but it's such a shame we have no idea what his motivations are. protagonist is just some girl, no depth there either. Few scenes are thrown in, seemingly randomly, to make the scenario realistic but it comes off as an after-thought and doesn't work well with the theme of the movie. All in all, I kept thinking throughout the movie "that isn't what happens in real life" and "what a dumb move" skip it, if you ask me. *forgive typos, on my ipad*

The two lead actors really carry this one. Sears is a glorious creeper, although he may actually overdo it a little bit towards the end of the film. He is still probably sitting around a 7/10 on the Norman Bates creepiness scale. Hough, usually known for her singing/dancing prowess, really surprised me with her chops in this one. She is a total gamer. It probably wasn't too comfortable shooting this one. She is sympathetic throughout, and the acting is quite strong.My only real critique is the ending. I thought they could have had a little stronger, satisfying finish. Once she gets to his little house of horrors, it's fairly conventional.