O Templo

Stuff I liked about it:

• The awe of being someplace new and different was pretty well felt by the main character. It made me wish to go. That was nice.
• He seemed like a real person for a second (unlike the others).

Stuff I disliked:

• Like every horror film, every character is virtually unlikable. Why though? Don't you want us to care about them?
• Also like every horror film, whenever there's a "twist" (there really isn't), it pauses the action to replay some old scenes because they think we're too slow. I wish they'd quit with that.
• It ends so abruptly and randomly. This movie builds up with interesting details and then seemingly forgets at the last minute. They did nothing with the, uh, topic of the relationship fight, which is kind of a weird thing to write about so casually. A lot of wasted potential there. Perhaps stuff happens, but it's all left up to you to write the ending in your head.

In fact, the movie straight up tells you at the beginning that people go mad and murderous at the temple that makes people go mad and murderous. It does a decent job of making you think there's a story unraveling, but there isn't. there's honestly nothing to spoil here.

It's literally pretty good until they just decided "we're done now" and it's over. It ends awkwardly abrupt. As if they dropped the camera mid scene and just said f$%# it

I had initially expected somewhat more from this horror movie, and I must admit that I was rather disappointed with the overall result of what the movie turned out to be.

The story told in "Temple" was pretty straight forward, although it didn't offer anything to the horror genre that hasn't already been done or seen in other horror movies.

The movie was surprisingly devoid of anything even remotely scary or impressive, and it just lulled itself into a tranquil pace that made it lose all momentum and drive. And it didn't help much that the characters were one-dimensional drones that served no purpose. This reflected badly on the actors and actresses, as they had surprisingly little to work with. Logan Huffman actually managed to perform somewhat adequately and keep the movie afloat.

If you enjoy a good horror movie, then this joined American and Japanese effort is not the best of choices to put your time and money.

This was a film, that, yet again seemed to have the potential to have been much better. There just seemed to be too many things going on that didn't seem to be significant or didn't contribute to any conclusions. Some nice cinematography, some good music, but not the best story-line.

Oh wow guys. This represents Western ignorance? Man, that's deep. I know I've sure never seen a horror movie before where young American idiots ignored piles of blatant warning signs and got themselves killed in the woods by supernatural forces of evil. Thank goodness this brought Japan in to teach us this valuable lesson, especially since they're known for being so respectful of other cultures. Hur hur.

Forget about that though. Let's talk about how this movie is only 78 minutes long and is made up of about 63 minutes of build-up (and credits), leaving only around 15 minutes of jumbled, unsatisfying, lukewarm horror.

Let's talk about the fact that this movie has to promote itself by trying to invoke the names of more popular movies like You're Next and Blair Witch, but if you actually look at the credits you'll find that this was only written by the same writer of those, and was actually directed by that guy's brother who has nothing but cinematography credits to his name.

Makes sense though, doesn't it? The one positive thing I can say about this is it was certainly a well-shot film. Other than that though, it's an empty waste of time. Nothing but sightseeing shots and filler.