A group of friends gets lost in the Appalachian mountains but gets found by an off-grid community that hunts them down.
Ahhhh… The clash between the world we are slowly leaving behind and the brave new one we are entering at warp speed. Bridging those two worlds will be one of the most difficult tasks societies globally must handle. Anyway…
Wrong Turn‘s producers decided, in a six-member “gang”, to represent as many minorities as possible. And as much as I endorse diversity and inclusion, when it’s for ticket sales or any other form of profit, I don’t. It’s called exploitation. Moving on from the casting choices concerns… one realises, right off the bat, when the alleged action and thrill kicks in, that the educated youth comes up with the dumbest questions, ideas, and ideologies ever existed while people of unknown origin and skills are after them in the middle of the unknown… nowhere. Ultimately, what most of them say and do is nothing but contradictory, which renders them undecided in life or hypocrites at best.
And if you are somewhat confused with the messages about the old and new world and their people… boy… wait until the film’s revelation! I’m not going to spoil it for you. See for yourselves the mess the script is leaving behind. Honestly, wait until the very end; the script’s direction is more lost than every city boy and girl has ever been on these mountains throughout the whole franchise. And since you’ve made it to the very end, watch at least the last scene; it’s awesome.
To my surprise, that script is by Alan B. McElroy, the writer behind the original Wrong Turn (2003), and it may be a reboot but has nothing to do or has nothing on the original one. Emmanuelle Chriqui and Eliza Dushku are irreplaceable.
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