Urban Explorer (2011)

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Did you people see the same film I saw?

Boring

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

A group of people take in an underground tour of the tunnels beneath Berlin. All is going relatively well until their fairly enigmatic guide suffers an unfortunate accident. If being lost in these deep, dark, endless maze of tunnels weren't bad enough, they also happen upon a deranged nut-case/former border guard.I thought I was in for yet another low-budget, badly acted horror flick of little real value, but as the movie wore on, I found, much to my surprise, it to be fairly well done. Highly derivative, but well done nonetheless. I actually found myself caring if these characters survived or not, no small feat as most of these type of films have such one-dimensional cardboard characters that I usually can't be bothered. Which I guess is also true here to some extent, but I was drawn into the story regardless.

One reviewer said it best when he compared this film to "Wolf Creek", this really basically is that movie but in a different setting. However, they did throw in a few things to make this movie its own.The film started out very interesting and I was pretty excited. I really like the idea of Urban Exploring so to finally see a horror movie about it was very cool. But once things really got going I realized this was pretty much the same ole thing, but in this case that wasn't such a bad thing.The baddie does an excellent job of being terrifying and just plain evil, and I think thats the main thing that made me enjoy this film. That mixed in with some very extremely gory scenes made this worth watching.Its not the best horror movie ever and its not going blow any minds, but it was fun and fairly disturbing. If you enjoyed such films as Wolf Creek, Hostel, and Train I suggest you give this one a look cus you are bound to find something you like here. Good movie but nothing special. 6/10

A lot of reviews said they gave it a lower rating than they would have because the movie did not have subtitles, but the one I watched did, so don't be put off from seeing it, since it's a film horror fans wouldn't want to miss. It reminds me a bit of Wolf Creek, except for the contrast in setting, obviously.The male protagonist of the story would irritate you to no end on the choices he makes, but you might find yourself rooting for him, all the same. One female, the one with the camera, will make you want to push her in a ravine on one scene, because their unfortunate circumstances started due to her utter stupidity. Just had to get that off my chest. Heh.I must say, you'd think, in the beginning of the film, that the villain would be different, but as the film progresses, it will prove you wrong. He actually surprised me by his evil-ness, although the torture scenes were not as bad as what I've seen in other gore-themed movies. And I actually liked that they toned it down a notch and didn't make it out to be like another Saw or Hostel movie. I'm not much of a fan of those, though I have seen my share.The characters will make you go bald from pulling your hair from its roots,because you're frustrated as **** with the choices they make. It won't make you stop from sitting at the edge of your seats though. You'll be able to watch this to the end, because it's the kind of movie that compels you to do so, even if you know it might not be categorized into the same level as some of the greats.Watch it. It's worth your time, especially for a true horror fan.

I felt like I really needed to rip this movie a new one since I didn't see a lot of mention of a point I thought is glaringly obvious. Another reviewer mentioned it, and I feel like the whole experience of the film was ruined due to the lack of subtitles.I can forgive a lot of things for a movie; bad scripts, accents, usage of foreign languages, etc. I do indeed love to watch foreign films, but only when I understand what the hell is going on. The first 30 minutes of the movie is fine, since most of the dialog is spoke in English. I thought it was pretty good for a typical horror, and I liked the setup. It is believable, straightforward setup.After that, it all goes downhill and everything simply switches to German. I suppose it is done intentionally since some of the characters didn't know German but I don't think that's an excuse to not include subtitles. Knowing almost no German, I at least wasn't at a complete lost with the general direction of how the film is taking, especially being a horror genre but it really detracted from my experience. If it had subs? I'd probably give it a seven.