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Features • PAL In Theaters : April, 1979 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | MARGINALLY INTERESTING WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY |
| First I should say that the copy of this movie I received had a defective soundtrack which in parts was all but inaudible. That aside, if the movie was worth keeping I might have tried to get a replacement. I didn't bother.
Italian movies are usually very well made, regardless of budget and genre. Parts of this film meet that standard, but overall it is a mess. Eighty percent of the plot consists of people hiking through jungle or wading through rapids, occasionally pausing to react to intercut scenes of nature's cruelty: crocs eating lizards, lizards eating snakes, snakes eating monkeys or birds. My guess is that the perverse nature footage was secured first, and the rest of the movie was written around it. Although it may have been shocking and explicit for its time, there are more thrills to be found any night on the Discovery Channel than in this flick. Thankfully, Ursula Andress has a mighty fine body, and a lovely face which provides most of the production value for the first two acts. Stacy Keach must have split the lions share of the budget with her, he obviously didn't do it for the prestige. There are several decent EFX scenes, mostly body parts being lopped off, but aside from a few brief and ineffective shocks, there is no suspense or real drama of any kind. Although some interesting music is used in some sections, to describe it as a score would be too kind. Instead, it seems to float along on a parallel track, with little connection to the pace of the editing or the onscreen visuals. At its worse, it is a kind of empty-headed elevator music. The most frustrating thing is that this could have been a cult classic, if only the script and the editing had been worked a little harder. The cannibals look cool, and the locations are beautiful. Had the repulsive displays of animal cruelty been the starting point, rather than the most dramatic elements of this production, it could have been a kick ass film. |
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