Highly disappointing.

Rodrigo_Amaro

Once again we traveled through the dark forces of evil in a plot involving occultism and the Third Reich but this time these forces resurrected in the present days. In "Town Creek" (or "Blood Creek" depending on the place you live the title is changed) the story of two brothers (Henry Cavill and Dominic Purcell) must fight against a diabolic creature (Michael Fassbender) that needs human bodies and souls to being brought back to a new and eternal life (I might be wrong with this presentation but it's something like that)

Now, did I care about this story and these characters? Not even for a moment. Everything is quite predictable, nothing is scary, the gore was uninteresting, the visual effects are quite laughable if not cheesy (the one with the flaming horse was really funny). The plot is a complete mess that not even a good director like Joel Schumacher could've save from its own sake. Why is he wasting himself away with such projects? After the 2000's the guy only had one interesting film ("Phone Booth"), the others were between okay and disappointing but "Town Creek" puts him in the bottom of the barrel for good.

You can't learn anything from here (but it wasn't the mission of this film) but you can't even have a decent entertainment to put your brain to rest from problems and more elaborated flicks. In fact, here's what I got from this ridiculous piece of garbage. 1) One hour and half thrown to the wind with few compensations, Henry Cavill's looks being one of those, not to mention he's great playing an action hero and 2) I finally get it why they had to edit the film in that awful shaky way where you can't watch the images. They did that to make average viewers who only uses one percent of the brain never see the countless flaws and mistakes this film has in terms of script, everything is so bloody distractive.

If wasn't for Cavill and for a nice appearance of Michael Fassbender (the one at the beginning with the story's introduction with him playing a Nazi once again; the ones with visual effects and make up on his face are just boring), this film would be one of the worst I've seen in a long time. Certainly, it was the worst of Joel Schumacher (so far!) and one of the weakest I had the unfortunate pleasure to watch. 2/10

score 2/10

Rodrigo_Amaro 4 October 2011

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