I guess we should all be thankful that Eli Roth has only
managed to direct four (not including this month’s Knock Knock) feature films in his not-quite-illustrious career. Believe
me, it’s all for the better. He’s fine when he’s helping out his friends by
making short films (well, hello “Thanksgiving” trailer from Grindhouse) or making an ass out of
himself in stuff like Piranha, but
man this horror movie obsessed director makes truly horrendous films. He really
just makes the same film over and over again: films in which young people of privilege
enter dangerous foreign lands and end up being slaughtered, whether it’s a
cabin in the woods, Eastern Europe, or in his latest effort, the Amazonian
jungle. Unfortunately, everything you’ll read about how Roth made “The Green
Inferno” will be ten times more fascinating than what he put on screen.
Let’s breakdown some of things Roth has mentioned about “The
Green Inferno” and how it turned out. If there was any indication that Roth is
one of the vainest directors in the world (and there are not surprisingly many)
he has said his Green Inferno looks like a Terrence Malick film. First of all,
Malick’s films are actually shot on film not whatever hazy digital garbage
director of photography Antonio Quercia shot on. The film is as ugly as the
movie itself, which was probably the point. The film also stars a woman with no
real acting talent whatsoever. She’s Roth’s wife. No surprise there, though
they seemed to have tied the knot after the film was shot. Lead Lorenza Izzo
plays college freshman Justine and she just wants to make a difference. She
hates genital mutilation, for instance. Who doesn’t? Izzo comes across as a
D-list version of Eliza Dushku, who was already C-list anyways. She joins up
with a group of campus activists who want to head into a South American jungle
to protest an evil lumber corporation. Fine do that. Seems pretty dangerous to
me. Roth says the film is a commentary on what he refers to in today’s society as
“slacktivism.” In which the younger generation uses social media to complain
about issues and support causes without ever actually doing something about it.
Um, Mr. Roth, doesn’t flying to another country and chaining yourself to a tree
in the middle of the jungle count as more than a tweet? But I digress.
The first half of the film is the story of college
protesters, but on their way home their small plane crashes and lands them in
the middle of the jungle. The irony is that the native people they were trying
to protect turn out to be cannibals and decide to serve the students for
dinner. Roth even cast a real tribe (they’re not really cannibals though, if
you really wondered) as the natives – people who had never heard of let alone
seen a film. With “The Green Inferno” Roth, ever the horror nut, is attempting
to pay tribute to the cult films he loves – here the subgenre of Italian
cannibal films, such as “Cannibal Holocaust.” Though, ever the narcissist, he
mostly ends up copying himself, as the film follows the same formula as his torture
porn hit Hostel. That film’s first half played like a frat boys go to Europe
sex comedy before nosediving into the dangers of Americans traveling to foreign
countries. This time it’s just college activists heading into the foreign jungle.
Same dog, old tricks. And this time Roth can’t even make the activists more
appealing than horny frat guys. They’re all clichéd dummies (you’ve got your
potheads, your vegans, etc) who we can’t wait to see get ripped apart. At least
the graphic makeup effects are decent. Once the film’s cannibal plot kicks in
it’s pretty relentless; I’m not sure what they had to slip to the MPAA ratings
board to secure an R rating actually. And I’ll give you a guess whether genital
mutilation figures in somehow.
When disgusting, graphic violence is the only appealing aspect
of your film (besides its nicely designed opening titles), I’d say you failed. Even
in a horror film. The gore works but nothing else does. Roth has created a
movie filled with so many uninteresting characters, played by actors who can’t
act, an uninvolving story, and to top it all off it all just looks ugly. Not to
mention all the unintentional laughs – pray Roth never makes a straight out
comedy. You’d be doing yourself a favor by just watching the superior “Cannibal
Holocaust” instead; it is way more barf-worthy (in the good way, of course). GRADE: D+
Trailer for The Green Inferno on TrailerAddict.
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