I'm usually pretty forgiving about indie films, but this one is a mess.
Everyone is obviously trying hard -- the actors (mostly first-timers) do a creditable job, and there are some interesting directorial choices, but the script and story just ruins it.
The film starts with a robbery of a rich guy at a poker game. Apparently, in 2013, rich guys still bring huge amounts of cash strapped in bank bundles. Two punks steal the money and go out to the woods to meet the mastermind of the heist, who they promptly double-cross. They are found by a game warden, so they hide the cash with the intent of coming back later to get it.
We then meet our protagonists, two twenty-something couples who are going out camping. They frolic for a while, and one of the girls finds the money and hides it with the intent of sneaking back and getting it.
The two punks show up, see the money is gone, figure that the girl took it. So they pull the four of them out of their tent and threaten them to get their money. The girl forgets where she put it, so the punks do what anybody would do in that situation -- they forget all about the money and just let the four of them go. Then, after they let them go, they decide to run after them to try to kill them.
Realize -- it's never explained why the punks decide to suddenly give up on finding their loot after it was the most important thing in the world to them. There's no explanation why these city punks would want to try to chase the kids through the woods. They just do.
And from then on, the film -- which wasn't all that together to begin with -- just falls apart. The four kids are as loud as can be, and the punks can walk straight by them without noticing. It seems like these woods are some sort of parallel universe -- a girl can start to run, the punk runs right after her. She runs into her friends, has a nice long conversation, does some stuff, then runs off and winds up out of the woods. In all the time, one of the punks is still running after her. I'd be OK suspending disbelief if it was exciting, but it was just odd and confusing.
And a final complaint. The movie is really barely a movie. The running time is 1 hour and 13 minutes. The movie is over at the 1 hour mark. They then make the credit crawl really crawl verrrrrrry slooooooooowly, so that it takes the final 13 minutes of the movie for the credits to roll.
As I said, I like to support indies and there is a lot of good effort here, but I can't recommend it.
Everyone is obviously trying hard -- the actors (mostly first-timers) do a creditable job, and there are some interesting directorial choices, but the script and story just ruins it.
The film starts with a robbery of a rich guy at a poker game. Apparently, in 2013, rich guys still bring huge amounts of cash strapped in bank bundles. Two punks steal the money and go out to the woods to meet the mastermind of the heist, who they promptly double-cross. They are found by a game warden, so they hide the cash with the intent of coming back later to get it.
We then meet our protagonists, two twenty-something couples who are going out camping. They frolic for a while, and one of the girls finds the money and hides it with the intent of sneaking back and getting it.
The two punks show up, see the money is gone, figure that the girl took it. So they pull the four of them out of their tent and threaten them to get their money. The girl forgets where she put it, so the punks do what anybody would do in that situation -- they forget all about the money and just let the four of them go. Then, after they let them go, they decide to run after them to try to kill them.
Realize -- it's never explained why the punks decide to suddenly give up on finding their loot after it was the most important thing in the world to them. There's no explanation why these city punks would want to try to chase the kids through the woods. They just do.
And from then on, the film -- which wasn't all that together to begin with -- just falls apart. The four kids are as loud as can be, and the punks can walk straight by them without noticing. It seems like these woods are some sort of parallel universe -- a girl can start to run, the punk runs right after her. She runs into her friends, has a nice long conversation, does some stuff, then runs off and winds up out of the woods. In all the time, one of the punks is still running after her. I'd be OK suspending disbelief if it was exciting, but it was just odd and confusing.
And a final complaint. The movie is really barely a movie. The running time is 1 hour and 13 minutes. The movie is over at the 1 hour mark. They then make the credit crawl really crawl verrrrrrry slooooooooowly, so that it takes the final 13 minutes of the movie for the credits to roll.
As I said, I like to support indies and there is a lot of good effort here, but I can't recommend it.