Open Grave (2014)

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

If you have insomnia, watch this movie and you'll fall dead asleep. Horrible movie. I was hopeful that this movie would be good...but it was just a big waste of time. I feel they owe me money for the time I wasted watching this really crappy movie.If you have insomnia, watch this movie and you'll fall dead asleep. Horrible movie. I was hopeful that this movie would be good...but it was just a big waste of time. I feel they owe me money for the time I wasted watching this really crappy movie.If you have insomnia, watch this movie and you'll fall dead asleep. Horrible movie. I was hopeful that this movie would be good...but it was just a big waste of time. I feel they owe me money for the time I wasted watching this really crappy movie.

Jonah (Sharlto Copley) wakes up in a mass grave next to countless corpses. A mute Asian girl (Josie Ho) helps him out of there. He suffers from amnesia and cannot remember what happened and how he got there. In a house nearby, he meets several others, including Lukas (Thomas Kretschmann), Nathan (Joseph Morgan)and Sharon (Erin Richards), however all of them have lost their memory, too! Step by step, they explore the surrounding area, recover their memory piece by piece and find out that they are in a terrible danger...The whole movie is in a similar situation like the "Lost" TV series, because people who don't trust each other have to explore unknown territory. There is just some more horror thrown in for good measure. All in all, "Open Grave" is a really good movie. The story remains full of suspense, because the main characters don't know who they are: the good guys or were they involved in that mass murder?

I quickly browsed on the reviews and can't really understand the good reviews, but well everyone is entitled to his opinion. For me its quite simple, horrible acting, there is no real mystery, its a very predictable end, there are scenes that I even said: "this is really bad acting" it's not a very common sentence from me. In the other hand (let's see if there is something good) the story-line has a good passing, well it's pretty much it.TL;dr A group of people wake up with amnesia, with trust issues between them, they try to figure out what made them be in that place all together. In sum it's not worth it, "The Cube" is way better, and that one was much cheaper, for sure.

OK straight to the point here...Open Grave is absolutely dire. I saw the trailer for it and thought that it looked like a really good, atmospheric psychological thriller. Amazing how a trailer can portray a movie to be what it's not as this film was none of what the trailer made it out to be.For me, the feel of the movie was basically a cross between The Walking Dead and 28 Days Later, but was nowhere near as good. In fact, it feels like it should be a crime just putting it in the same sentence as those two features.The film started off well enough, and it seemed like it could get better as it went on as there was plenty of opportunity for this, but just the opposite happened...it got slow, dull, and was non-eventful for the majority of the time.I've read reviews describing Open Grave as atmospheric & eerie. Well, those viewers must have watched a completely different movie to what I did because these elements were lacking just as much as the rest of the film.The cast, for the main part, was OK, and I think Copley is a pretty excellent actor, but even he couldn't save this and for me his American accent put me off as well. It would have been much better if they let him keep his South African accent and if you're in doubt about that, compare him in District 9 to this garbage. It's a completely different feel with his normal accent compared to the put on accent.As for the the twist at the end - if you could call it a twist - well, what an anti-climax that was. There are more twists in a game of chess than there were here. If the ending was better it might have redeemed the movie just a bit for me, but that was just as dull as the previous 90 minutes.This is definitely one to avoid but if you must watch it, then just be prepared for 1hr 40mins of boredom.