Interesting low budget slasher.
Added 2/5/2008
This movie has it pros and it's cons. The biggest con being the actors. These are by far the MOST annoying group of "kids" I've ever come across. The women are vulgar and not so easy on the eyes, the men are barely men, and that's being nice. We have a rapper wannabe who you want to get offed from the second he opens his annoying pie-hole. There are two ditzes, a goth imposter, the scantily clad blonde and the acting needs improvement. The cinematography wasn't too awful, it's low budget but it's not "no budget." What's odd is I see a lot of the 2006 Hills Have Eyes in this movie but this movie was made in 2003. I have to say though that The Hills Have Eyes was 100x better. Anyway, I guess if you can find this on sale, or used it's worth it. I wouldn't pay more than 5.00 for it personally. It wasn't horrible, but I've seen better.
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Detour, after reading the back of the box, seemed far too much like The Hills Have Eyes, and I was reluctant to watch it. I thought it was just going to be another cheesy knockoff. However, I faced my reluctance and popped it into the DVD player. What a surprise!!
Yes, there are scenes that are way too much like The Hills Have Eyes, but it was still quite good. The plot was great and the cannibals were crazy. There were twists and turns and blood and guts, and I was surprised at how well this film was.
It's definitely worth a try.
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0 STARS: Vanilla Ice meets "The Hills Have Eyes"
Added 10/13/2007
In "Detour", a group of absolutely totally stupid people take a "short cut" or a "detour" in the desert out in the middle of nowhere in order to come upon some dope. Well, they wreck their RV (sound familiar), and they get stuck in the middle of the desert. That's not their only problem though. Besides their stupidity and the fact that they are stranded in the desert, there are also some cannibals in the desert. Well, the only question is whether the cannibals will eat them all or whether some of them will sadly escape.
I know my synopsis of the movie seems harsh towards the characters, but these characters are truly stupid and ridiculous people. The makers of this movie went out of their way to create the most obnoxious and stupid "protagonists" (that's a laugh) that's ever been created in any movie, not just a horror movie. The characters are not only not likeable, but they are despicable and revolting in their idiocracy so much that the viewer is not able to become engrossed in the movie itself. The intelligent viewer does not relate to these stupid people and, in a sense, the protagonists are just as bad as the cannibals in my opinion (just in a different way), and so the movie comes off as ridiculous and absurd. Indeed, the acting is terrible in this movie, absolutely awful. While the acting does not have to be great or even good, it does have to be able to pull the viewer into the setting of the movie and the situation of the characters. The fact that the characters are so ridiculous hinders the viewer from being able to make that leap of faith.
Aside from the horrendous acting and ridiculous characters, "Detour" really is nothing more than an inferior rip-off of "The Hills Have Eyes", which is a decent but not a great horror movie in and of itself. In all honesty, if you've seen "Hills" (original or remake), you've pretty much seen "Detour", although as I have said, "The Hills Have Eyes" is much better all the way around, but that's not saying much. The villains in the "Detour" do not look nearly as gruesome or as formidable as the villains in "Hills". In fact, in a sense, one could argue that some of the villains in "Detour" looked more normal than our protagonists in this truly backwards flick. Particularly obnoxioius was the Vanilla Ice look-a-like who was absolutely repulsive in his stupid role. One actually hopes that he gets killed by movie's end. Yeah, it's that bad.
If you love movies like "The Hills Have Eyes" and "Wrong Turn", you might want to check this out, but I would advise against it because, as I said, it's nothing more than a "Hills" ripoff/rehash with no significant deviations or distinctions to give it an identity of its own, save for the absolute and total stupidity of its sad and pathetic protagonistic characters.
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OK apart from one actor
Added 7/3/2007
Anyone else get annoyed by the really bad acting from the Eminem wannabe in this film - I would kill him myself if I was his mate in the film, for a low budget indie flick it was ok and would get 4 stars if the dud actor was deleted from it
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I am a B horror flick fan, but...
Added 3/26/2007
I thought that this movie fell short of even B horror flick standards. I did like the scenic shots of the film but the dialog and the "mutants" of this film didn't really hold my attention. The "mutants" were not even mutants at all. They looked like everyday people that you would see on the street. Well, they didn't look disfigured is what I mean. The guy that was acting like he was part of the "Rap Culture" was the most irritating of them all. I really wanted to like this movie, but I am sorry that I didn't. I don't recommend this movie to anyone. Even those B horror fans.
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