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Jonathan Tucker
Jena Malone
Laura Ramsey
Shawn Ashmore
Joe Anderson
Sergio Calderón

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A group of students on vacation in Mexico get sidetracked by a German student who lost his brother. In the search for his brother they venture into the jungle and find old ruins where an ancient evil lives. -- Josh C

12/28/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Horrible

The Ruins was one of the worst horror movies I've ever seen.

The story was one of the worst I've seen. Let's take a set of ruins, which were hidden by a covered up trail, where some people were quarantined because they touched some vines on the rocks. Then, those vines started to attack at kill them, after mocking the sounds they would make, like a ringing cell phone and yelling. I don't think that any plant could to that realistically, and there was no way they would stay on those ruins, even if people threatened to kill them.

The characters were not very realistic at all. The actors were bland, making the characters on screen seem surreal. Everything about the acting, characters, and their reactions to the problem almost seemed fake and forced as I watched. Some scenes were almost...

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1.5/4 

07/16/2008 (1 of 1 found this helpful)

The end ruined this entire movie

Damnit!! I really wanted to love this film and almost did. Sure it didn't have the greatest actors, the plot was a bit shallow and Carter Smith hasn't really directed a notable film. Still -- I fell for the previews and the original story that looked mysterious.

Throughout the movie I was surprised at the gore but disappointed at the lack of genuine scares. I was still enjoying the movie, that is until the very end.

What the F$#K! It never reached a climax, it just ended. Nothing.... It was going just fine and then it was like a bad episode of Law and Order where it just stops before justice has been served. It desperately needed a climax and I can think of 100 ways to end this film that doesn't involve making the movie into a piece of crap.

So for all the directors out there ...

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1.5/4 

06/29/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Not Good Enough

I really wanted to like this movie a lot more but I couldn't find myself to do so because I ultimately didn't care for the characters. I guess the film should've taken its time to grab a hold of their audiences and establish why they should care for the teenagers instead of just jumping into the unknown and take that risk. Still, there are a lot of creepy and gory scenes that casual moviegoers will enjoy. But if one is looking for a horror film worth discussing for more than thirty minutes, this is not it. For me, the highlight of the film is the goriest scene because it made me wince in so many unimaginable ways. I saw this picture with a few friends and they were absolutely horrified during that scene but I ended up laughing so much afterwards. The cliches made me laugh and some of the ...

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2/4