And Soon The Darkness (2010) 6/10

Starring : Amber Heard, Odette Yustman, Karl Urban
Director : Marcos Efron
Running Time : 92 mins

American tourists Stephanie (Heard) and Ellie (Yustman) take a bike trip through Argentina, having missed their bus due to a drunken night out, but when Ellie mysteriously disappears Stephanie finds herself in a fight to free her from a kidnapping ring that is operating in the area.

You’d imagine with this being a remake that there’d have been a reason to remake it. Perhaps if the writers or director had some new ideas they wanted to add, or they wanted to engage us in some way, but this movie is just so humdrum and dull, with little or no tension, that there’s no way anyone could find it gripping. The acting is pretty bad, and the logic behind Heard’s discovery is far too coincidental for my liking. The only thing this has going for it is tension, which is pretty well executed throughout, but the payoff isn’t worth the wait as, to be fair, there are only really two suspects in the whole movie.

You’ll like this if you liked : The Hills Have Eyes