The tribe - L'Ile de la terreur

It's rough being on an island with a creature that kinda looks like Predator crossed with Cha-Ka from Land of the Lost. There's no real plot so to speak, just a final girl and a machete for the most part.

The plot summary on the back sounded somewhat interesting, so I rented this one tonight. I just finished watching it.

Overall, there's just not much to say about it. Everything is slightly worse than mediocre. The movie falls into that ugly gap between being so bad it's entertaining and being an honestly good movie. The four "characters" are basically non-existent and there's close to no background about the "monsters". Speaking of those, they aren't even especially gruesome in any way, neither regarding their looks nor their practices. The film tries to get some tension going, but it just didn't work for me at all. The plot is as foreseeable as it could be right from the start, not a single surprise to be found and the ending is very, very... unsatisfying.

For those who rated it ten, I will have what they are having. For those who rated it a 1, that is a bit harsh. From Filmrise, I didn't have many expectations. Liz and Peter have a strained relationship, but they take out rich tourists on the boat. The GPS keeps malfunctioning, but it appears from the port they left is in California, but they wind up in the Caribbean. They hit a reef (worst special effects ever) and are stranded on this jungle island. At least the scenery is very interesting. But the creatures come out during the day, so the movie is misnamed. The creatures are not very nice. Liz (Jewel Staite) is clearly the best actor of the group and Peter finally asks her to marry him. But they have to deal with the creatures, so how will that work out for them? The creatures are done decently. But the movie has so many obvious flaws, it really is not a very good movie.

It is hard to fill ten lines of comment for this movie. What has to be said? Well, the monsters are monstrous, the girl pretty (in some common way), the island mysterious. All of them do their job. Cinematography is not that bad, you just get the sense of people lost in a wild forest. Of course the writer had to fill some space with irrelevant anthropology about characters that are not even mean enough to deserve such misfortune or so nice to make you cry. As a matter of facts monsters look more interesting and complex. I would have liked that some destiny, or original sin had pushed the humans to that place. It would have meant some stars more.

The best way to describe the movie is: redundant. Not a single frame of it is original. Everything has been done before and better. The group of victims, their dynamic, the setting, the monsters, the killings. Everything is just a rehash of a cliché of a stereotype.

As far as horror films go, this is one of the lamest. The group of people is amongst the dullest, least developed bunch of morons without chemistry ever. The plot is something you and your friends come up with in 5 alcohol infested minutes when joking about bad horror plots. The setting is more like "Let's get paid to go to a Paradise Island!" The killings all follow the horror formula and are less gory than I've come to expect.

All in all, this was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It wasn't as bad as classic early Boll, but that just made it worse. "The Tribe" is bad in a totally unfunny and unentertaining way, it's just plain and simple a waste of lifetime.