Ilha das Sombras

A weapons development corporation looses contact with its small research facility on a remote island in British Columbia. It then sends a team there to find out what happened.

There are many twists and turns in this movie with a completely unexpected ending - well at least i did not expect this ending considering how Hollywood writes movies.

There are no great special effects but overall this is a decent movie.

I wasn't really expecting much from this movie and I was right not to.

The plot has been used a million times before and as for the acting it was more wooden than the trees on the island.

I saw no true chemistry between the actors and felt no emotion for any of the characters.

In a nutshell this movie has an overused plot, poor acting and a cheesy script.

I've seen some pretty poor movies in my time and this is up there with the worst of them to be honest.

That's about all I have to say on this one.

Lost has become one of the leading patterns for movie writers. Thinking like that and not following it through with great acting is like eating a bitter Ice cream. The movie has nice animations, fighting scenes, a bit cheap on the props because I clearly saw add/remove icon on the laptop. Better fix that next time. Acting is degraded. They not only lack acting skills, but the talent is totally non existent. The cast look like they've been rallied in some nearby coffee shop along side with their cheap looking laptops. Screenplay occasionally drops (like you know what) bits and pieces of characters lives. It doesn't explain a thing. It only shows how little you need to make a film today. You don't have to poses skills other than being someones nephew, or having a 3rd day black belt, to be in the cast. Just don't expect people to love your work!

The Altracorp Corporation uses the Mare island as testing ground of biological weapons, but the research team loses control of the experiments and disappears. A rescue team formed by Raymond Hua (Zero Kazama), Rachel Gant (Mary Christina Brown), Doctor Sophie Miller (Victoria Floro), Allen (Rob O'Brien) and Will Cain (Jai Koutrae) depart from Stillwater, British Columbia, to the island. When they arrive, they find one survivor, Mitchell (Eric Raymond Lim), infected by the experiment and a deadly black smoke has been unleashed threatening them. When they return to the beach, they find that their vessel has disappeared and they are trapped in the remote island.

"Dark Island" is another terrible movie of "island of experiments of an evil military corporation". The unoriginal screenplay uses the black smoke from "Lost'; black eyes from "Supernatural"; a collection of clichés with ridiculous plot points; and an awful and amateurish ham acting. The cast might have been chosen in a cinema school, highlighting the speech of the uncredited guy that performs Will's superior in the army. My vote is three.

Title (Brazil): "Ilha das Sombras" ("Island of the Darkness")

This movie surprised me. I thought I was in for a bore-fest, but it actually turned out to be quite nice.

The story was not without flaws, but it was good enough to keep me interested, and had a fairly good, steady flow to it. There were times when the movie was halting though.

The effects in "Dark Island" were also quite nice. Especially the CGIs for the animated black cloud. It looked really good, and moved in a very believable way. The make-up effects were good as well.

As for the cast, well I was not familiar with any of the ones in the movie, but most of them did a good job, despite often having halting dialogue to work with.

There weren't any scary moments or thrills throughout the movie, which kind of dragged the overall experience down a notch.