I decided to check this out despite the low 4.7 rating as the brief description kind of reminded me of 'I know what you did last summer', a personal favourite of mine (granted, probably in part cause it reminds me of my own youthful days, plus Sarah Michelle Gellar and a young Jennifer Love Hewitt). That movie also only has a 5.6 rating here and while I understand why I still found it a fun film to watch. So I decided to go against my rule of thumb of not watching anything below a 6 and gave it a go.
However long story short this is not worth the time, even though it's not that long. The entire story evolves around a curse that may or may not be related to the Indians but the events that happen in the movie are so mundane that the whole Indian curse thing seems like an afterthought. Especially the weird flashback/lucid dreams where you can see an Indian and some random shaky images seem forced and distract from the story more than anything else. But hey, maybe that was in fact the intention cause there's not much to the story.
The acting isn't actually that bad, though having seen the odd 8 simple rules episode back in the day and therefore knowing that the guy who plays a 15 year old boy must in reality be the best part of 30 was weird to me personally. I guess if you don't know that though he might even get away with it. The rest of the cast are also OK, there's not much to work with as the characters are kind of one dimensional, but then in a movie like this that's expected.
It doesn't salvage this film though. I'm giving it a 4/10 because there's a bit of room below it for the complete and utter pieces of junk that exist in this world but if I could go back in time I wouldn't watch this again.
However long story short this is not worth the time, even though it's not that long. The entire story evolves around a curse that may or may not be related to the Indians but the events that happen in the movie are so mundane that the whole Indian curse thing seems like an afterthought. Especially the weird flashback/lucid dreams where you can see an Indian and some random shaky images seem forced and distract from the story more than anything else. But hey, maybe that was in fact the intention cause there's not much to the story.
The acting isn't actually that bad, though having seen the odd 8 simple rules episode back in the day and therefore knowing that the guy who plays a 15 year old boy must in reality be the best part of 30 was weird to me personally. I guess if you don't know that though he might even get away with it. The rest of the cast are also OK, there's not much to work with as the characters are kind of one dimensional, but then in a movie like this that's expected.
It doesn't salvage this film though. I'm giving it a 4/10 because there's a bit of room below it for the complete and utter pieces of junk that exist in this world but if I could go back in time I wouldn't watch this again.