Body At Brighton Rock

This was one of the saddest excuses of a movie that I have ever wasted time watching. The character, Wendy was completely unbelievable. Acting as a park employee, she did EVERYTHING a park employee should not do. Dont waste your money. Seriously.

This limp thriller has a young parks employee, Wendy (Karina Fontes), heading out into the wild to post handbills along a hiking trail. At some point she wanders off the trail and gets lost; of course her cell phone charge dies shortly after she realizes this. In trying to find a spot where her walkie talkie will make a connection she discovers a several days old body. Eeuw. (I’m not being snarky; that’s approximately her reaction.) Now she has to stick around near the corpse until help arrives and deal with another hiker (Casey Adams) – maybe a murderer! – who insists on rummaging through the body’s clothes for identification. Oh, yes, and there’s a bear that – despite much being made of it on the case art – only shows up at practically the end of the film and (SPOILER ALERT) is easily sent packing. From the cheesy, computer generated opening titles (over some of the crappiest music I’ve ever heard) to, well, just about everything else, this film misses the mark and – except for really good photography – looks every bit as low budget as it likely is. It’s essentially supposed to be a study of a young woman finding out she’s stronger and more resourceful than she realizes but Wendy is such a whiner who comes off feeling very entitled that it’s nigh impossible to care about her (particularly as she makes bone-headed decision after bone-headed decision – not that the story could proceed without them). There’s a plot twist at the very end (no, I won’t spoil that) that seems pulled in from another movie. If it is really the point here I’ll just note that Rod Serling used to do this kind of thing more successfully and in one third the time.

Actors are amazing and I love watching it.

This movie had a few slow spots, but overall was pretty good.

Fabulous movie. Derp on many levels.

Solid movie from beginning to end

First off, I first thought this was a comedy. Spoilers ahead! In the first 24 hours, a young (but really cute) park ranger manages to do the following: 1.) Walkthrough the backcountry wearing ear-buds listening to music (um, never do that) and immediately gets lost. 2.) Get run over by a deer (yes thats right) and drops her map, losing it. (Was there a compass?). 3.) Pulls out a radio from 1975, discovers the 4 AAA batteries are dead and replace them with spares - she didnt check this before she left the station? 4.) Discovers a body and repeatedly and inadvertently destroys a potential crime scene. 5.) Discovers a tent, climbs into it and inadvertently destroys another potential crime scene. 6.) Notices a bear bag - where people store food, keeping it up high-away from bears, and doesnt seem to have any idea what it is (bear-bags are quite common in the backcountry). 7.) Nearly falls off a cliff from operating her 1975 radio. 8.) Camps 10 feet from a three-day old bloody, decaying corpse in bear country. 9.) Wakes up from a bad dream and sprays nearly all of her bear spray into the air...and her own eyes. 10) Likely uses most of her potable water to rinse said spray from her eyes. 11.) She tries to climb up a cliff, falls and knocks herself out. 12.) Gets attacked by a 1200 lb bear while laying on her back and fights it off by kicking it once in the nose (the bear actually stops and rubs his nose, as if saying, Ouch!. 13.) Uses the rest of her bear spray to create a flamethrower (you head that right) with the worst CG fire Ive ever seen. It does not appear to hit the bear, much less bother him. 13.) Realizes a person she saw messing with the body who she later kicked off a cliff (but didnt seem to feel bad about the murder) was actually the ghost of the body she was watching. Yeah, I dont get it either. It makes perfect sense. Wait, no it doesnt. Honestly, the director asks a LOT of the audience. We have to believe that a Park Ranger would carry a radio from 1975 (it has an extendable antenna and looks like my old Atari). Then we have to assume she would not have a GPS. Or flares. Or a knife. Or a panic button. Or any formal training in backcountry hiking. Or camping. Or emergency procedures. Or basic navigation. She hiked six hours out and the police didnt have a SAR (Search and Rescue) team to go get her until later the next day -despite the fact everyone knows she is inexperienced, alone in the woods with a dead body. We all know this movie is low-budget, after-school fodder, and I dont mind the acting. I just cant believe anyone would want a writer/director/producer credit for this. Another note: fire the titling person. The opening font was one of the reasons I first thought it was a comedy as it reminded me of Caddyshack. The Oingo Boingo didnt help.

I feel I am irreparably stupider for sitting through this travesty... it made the baby Jesus cry.

Where to start? Poor plot, horrible acting, the lead actress is unlikable, and this movie is all over the place. Common sense went out the window when writing this. Very boring and then 3/4 of the way they go for weird and its all downhill from there. Unrealistic. Girl can barely manage to breathe and walk at the same time and then suddenly at the end with a bear, they have her a survival expert that can think on her feet.

Great bear attack scene