Justine, a New York college student of privilege, becomes inspired to help out the less fortunate after hearing about the monstrosities happening in Africa. She joins a group of student activists who travel to the Amazon to save a dying tribe from being destroyed by big business. Tragedy strikes when their plane crashes in the jungle and they are taken hostage by the very same natives they were trying to protect. To make matters even worse these natives turn out to be cannibals. Eli Roth's The Green Inferno is the latest entry in Roth's frat-boy sense of horror that is full of incredibly putrid dialogue, dick joke type humor, and some gore porn. The Green Inferno is a very silly film that features bad acting, one-dimensional characters, and total lack of subtlety in anyway. Believe it or not this is actually a film I'm a little torn on. I simply can't decide if Roth's writing is intentionally horrible in the sake of self awareness or if he really is just this bad of a storyteller. I know there are moments that are intentionally funny but then there are these scenes throughout The Green Inferno that are supposed to be dramatic but they just come off incredibly superfluous where you feel absolutely nothing for the characters. The film does have a few really good gore sequences and a few of the more absurd moments are definitely fun, but I still can't get over how inadequate a director Eli Roth is when it comes to human emotion. 4/10
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