Review of Undertow

Undertow (2004)
2/10
Pure crap not worth your time
20 October 2010
Warning: Spoilers
It's rare when I can actually say I want my lost time back from this garbage. This film was so bad it's hard to find a place to start.

We are 'treated' to a loser father who has dragged his weird boys into the countryside to raise pigs and live in their filth. One boy appears perfectly normal, yet the movie portrays him as a criminal. He breaks a window pane to get his g/f's attention and they send TWO squad cars after him, fishtailing up the gravel roads in true Dukes of Hazzard style. Pathetic, and AS IF. This was after the kid got a nail in a board stuck to his foot and then jumped in a river. Leave your believability at the door.

His younger brother is worse, much worse. He goes around eating pig crap and paint and dirt and whatever he can stuff in his weird little mouth. By the middle of the movie we were laughing insults at 'Paint boy' and asking him to please shut up his voice-overs, which are endless, INANE, pointless! stupid, and completely ANNOYING, and go eat some nuclear waste and DIE for goddsake!

Then we have the mysterious case of the loser father allowing his jail bird brother to stay with them, after apparently the murdering psycho KILLED THE DAD'S WIFE??!!?? This is never fully explained in the movie but heavily implied.

Then he's surprised when the guy tries to steal his father's inherited coins, and instead of grabbing a shotgun, calmly just asks the guy to put them back... the idiocy and lack of believability in this movie is stunning.

So obviously, which we saw 1/2 an hour ago and from 50,000 feet, he kills the dad. The stupid kids, instead of running IMMEDIATELY into the woods TO THE NEAREST POLICE STATION, try HIDING IN THEIR ROOM!!! OMG! This is worse than a grade-B slasher movie!!! Then when they do get away, ignoring dad's station wagon btw and choosing to run on foot, the killer psycho tracks them like some sort of demonic bloodhound, mysteriously always finding them again.

In the final scene, instead of running away, the older kid mysteriously decides to commit suicide by challenging the fully grown man WHO IS ARMED WITH A KNIFE to a wrestling match in a nearby slough. Predictably the kid is quickly drowned, but somehow, mysteriously, manages to plunge the guy's knife into the guy while under water, and oh yeah, BEING DROWNED.

Thank god they cut out the part where annoying PAINT BOY comes back and calmly sits down beside the psycho who just drowned his brother, and oh, talks about crap and annoying bs while the guy dies.

What a complete TRAIN WRECK of a movie, thank the GODS I borrowed this off my girlfriend's sister and did not have to pay a DIME to watch it. I STILL feel ripped off from my WASTED TIME though.
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