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This was hot garbage. The only reason I gave it 3 stars is because I could laugh at how ridiculous it was.

• Not too far in from the start, Heather Graham, who is practically a typical southern belle, does some DIY bullet removal on her own leg - no anesthetic, raw fingers deep, and barely even whimpers (so as not to disturb her daughter). She then shows no sign of major injury for the entirety of the film.

• Cage is the absolute worst here, apparently trying to channel both Elvis and James Brown in the most ill-fitting way (even donning anachronistic cross-shaped glasses) and with a voice that's both highly grating and unintelligible. At one point he and a faceless goon lightly tumble to the ground and said goon magically breaks his neck.

• The action mostly consists of the bad and good guys lined up on opposite sides of the street firing wildly at each other with neither group able to hit the broad side of a barn unless it matters, to which you get treated to infinite quick cuts of individual cannon fodder getting shot from unrelated angles.

• The story and rest of the characters don't really matter at all.

I'm not sure if they set out to make a "so bad it's good movie" given the set of, at the very least, recognizable actors, but they definitely succeeded in a making a bad one.

It has an intriguing storyline about reincarnation and time loops and the fights/action sequences were short but good.

It's not a blockbuster but not a terrible watch either, and I don't get what everybody else was so confused about. The movie flowed well and the flashbacks were very straightforward to me with no explanations were needed.

The biggest fault I could say is that all the characters except the 3 mains (Voigt, Woodward, and Csokas who steals the show) don't really have much to add overall, with the detective being the most unimportant and cut-able.

I'd be down for a sequel if one ever materializes, but I doubt it will.

Just caught this on a Starz channel and the description sounded like a "Cabin Fever"-like good time. Starting off, there's a hazmat suit person investigating the woods while a background radio broadcast sets up the story, and after stumbling upon a campsite, the brown matter hits the fan, so to speak. If that was the end, it would've made a decent 5-minute short.

Unfortunately, it was decided this needed to be a full-length feature without providing anything to lift it up. Dumb characters, bad acting, and a script that was probably finalized on a cocktail napkin make it a 90-minute exercise in futility. They obviously thought all the vagueness, innocuously drawn-out scenes, and single note synthesizer music would add some sort of creep factor, but you're really just watching paint dry.

The few monster designs and effects are good but give no excuses since the movie is about as scary as watching your dog scoot its bottom across the rug.