People are voting emotionally.

Memorable, crazy movie

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

A horror movie quite a few notches above the usual affair. An innocent looking vine that has the virulence of a cordyceps fungus is quite a novel idea. However, a plot flaw - in my opinion - was the reasoning behind those brutal methods employed by the Mayan villagers to keep the lethal vine contained. The vine clearly had red flowers, so it would not have relied on infected humans to spread itself beyond the confines of the pyramid and invade new territory. Flowers are not there to make plants look pretty, they exist solely to be pollinated by insects, bats, hummingbirds . . whatever, germinate and then scatter their seeds to the four winds. Besides, wouldn't any fauna that pollinated those flowers become infected and fly away from the ruin before succumbing to the parasite?

Some years ago I read the novel this was based on and I have to say it left a real bitter taste in my mouth - too depressing, too intense and too obvious that it would not have a happy ending. I figured that, as usual, the movie would be inspired by the book and go in its own direction. Er.....no. The movie follows the book about as closely as any movie has and has the same oppressing sense of doom all the way through. If you are a gore fan,enjoy. I personally was left with the same depressed feeling as I had with the book.

A couple of years ago I had found the book The Ruins it was an excellent book it's very descriptive so I watched the movie it was kinda disappointing at first because they left out major detailing and they changed a lot of parts so I reread the book and I realized why they changed them cause it was similar to a couple other books and movies but The Ruins is an extraordinary read and movie it has a lot of graphic moments definitely not for anyone under 13 there are some inappropriate scenes that include violence swearing drinking etc. it's a very excellent movie it deserves a 10/10 I highly recommend it for sleepovers movie nights a at home movie date a black hearts party anti valentines day and many more

This was not an entirely bad movie, nor was it a very good movie. The story was good. I really liked the mysterious plant idea and I don't care that after warts you don't know how and why. The only thing I am really bugged about is this. The Mexicans chased them ( in the begging) on the temple (because they where already infected). Why don't they scare them off before going into the infected area? It could have saved a lot of trouble and the people would still all be alive! But yeah, then you wouldn't have a movie. It's one of those things you think of after seeing the movie. It's just one of those holes you sometimes counter in a movie.The acting was okay. It's just the same group of teens you see in almost every horror movie except these teens weren't dumb, they where actually quite okay/smart for a horror movie.It was an okay horror movie. Not bad not good. It didn't get to me and it wasn't anything special either.