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Just another one I should have passed on.
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
02/13/23
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A rip-off of Predator, The Lost Tribe never manages to develop itself in any way that is memorable or enjoyable.
Rated 1/5 Stars •
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/27/23
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Tough call. Three stars seemed to low, four too high.
One line summary: Small business group encounters Murphy's law and a lost tribe of humans.
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In the opening sequence, a woman archaeologist and her team make a big discovery, a skull that is not quite human. At least the team was very excited about it. The Church sends Gallo to dispatch her, which he does.
We do a jump shift to a boat at sea. Anna, Tom, Joe, Alexis, and Chris are on their way to a potentially rich business meeting. They rescue a man that's been left to drift at sea. He's out of his mind, for some reason. When most people are asleep, the rescued man takes control of steering and crashes the boat into an island.
Their advanced location devices fail, but the radio works, and they give the Coast Guard their last approximate position.
They find left over equipment from Gansis Research, which is supposedly connected to NYU. They also encounter someone/something which has a cheesy invisibility screen; shades of Predator. The next morning, Tom and the Gansis gear are both gone. The remaining four pursue.
Something picks off Alexis, lifting her into the canopy, then dropping her to the ground.
The three survivors find a video that they watch. It involves the 'lost tribe' a missing link (or dead end?) in human evolution. Supposedly the Roman Catholic Church would be upset about this since this would 'prove' that God did not create man on the sixth day.
Gallo kills Joe, and was about to kill Anna, when something kills him instead. It was one of the lost tribe, who scares Anna, but goes back into the jungle.
Chris is barely alive, and Anna watches the lost tribe Alpha Male kill him for a snack. The copying of Predator is repeated in regard to camouflage, and the lone survivor against heavy odds.
Will Anna survive? Will the Coast Guard arrive in time?
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Cinematography: 8/10, Gorgeous in daylight exteriors, better than usual in dark scenes. The final 10 minutes or so looked like it had a different cinematographer of lesser talent.
Sound: 10/10 Nicely done.
Acting: 8/10 Better than I expected.
Screenplay: 6/10 Was it ever adequately explained why anyone would care about this lost tribe? No. Could a skinny, non-athletic woman survive any hit by these ultra-strong animals? No. Yet she survives what, 15 or so, plus a forty foot drop from a tree? I don't think so.
Rated 4/5 Stars •
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/13/23
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a pretty stupid premise really but i can suspend my disbelief for the enjoyment. the deaths are very tame, don't even see the deaths really or gore. The cast of young seafarers are typical bimbos and have no clue how to handle themselves on a damn secluded island. It's just a matter of time when they get killed, but i was really bored how each one was killed-there was better ways to do it. And Lance Henrikson was seriously the most random bit of casting i've seen in a movie-He had absolutely no pull to the story or purpose really. He just disappears too unless he had scenes that ended up deleted. The only semi-cool thing about the movie was the monsters, which I was dreading would be a mix of bad CGI and uninspired designs. But I certainly wasn't letdown here. They looked neat-whoever did their makeup work did a great job. My friends kept saying they would look like the predator creatures with their armor and alien masks, but i knew they'd be big hulking monkey creatures, just by the way they sprung and leapt around trees. Unfortunately they all practically look the same, and act in the same idiotic neanderthal manners. They could have been better fleshed out. The story is very derivative and I can tell by the poster and advertising the filmmakers wanted to draw viewers in on the "Predator" similarities. The climax is something i really couldn't care have expected to happen-the lead woman going one on one with the leader of the clan. I mean i would have just laughed at whoever told me that this skinny white chick was gonna end up defeating this hulking brute beast in a one on one battle in the jungle. There were, I counted, four exact points in the movie where the lead girl should have died and the movie would have ended, based on previous logic of how the others were killed. I can only suspend my disbelief for so long...unfortunately this movie has little to no redeeming factors and absolutely no re-watchability factor. Ok I guess for a first time viewing..
Rated 1.5/5 Stars •
Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
02/16/23
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Not as great as I thought it would be. It's a little gross in some parts and it reminded me a lot of the movie Predators and Castaway. It's a little creepy in some parts, but I wouldn't call it scary and it does have some disturbing parts to it. A lot of the graphics kinda suck but some of the blood seems pretty real. And the end isn't bad, but it's not great either. If you liked Predators and/or Castaway, you might wanna check into this.
Rated 4/5 Stars •
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/27/23
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Fairly cheap and quickly made. This story has been simlilarly done before except this version is forgettable.
Rated 1.5/5 Stars •
Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
02/22/23
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