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This movie did many things good, but failed to do one thing right. Many people compared this movie to 'Snatch' or 'Pulp Fiction', but it fails to compare to either of them. Both of those movies have twists, like this one does, but those twists are less predictable and more entertaining. Both of those movies followed different intersecting plot lines, but the lines were so vividly different that when they did intersect they had violent and entertaining reactions. Sleven had one plot line that jumped around a bit. I was expecting more. With every twist I was mildly amused but not fully entertained.

This was worth the money, and worth the time. Considereing what was out in theaters at the time, it was the best choice.

What I would have changed: Throw in Christopher Walken as one of the bosses, and a villain that isn't a pawn. Someone like Kevin Spacey would have done nicely. Cut Ben Kingsley and you've got a movie. Nothing against Kingsley. He just wasn't right there.

I'm just glad it didn't have Ben Affleck or 50 Cent anywhere in it.

Why? Please, Hollywood, just once create a horror film that is NOT cliché.

The general plot of this film is a family caught in an evil house. At one point, the entire family had left the house, and the only one of them intelligent enough to realize that the house was evil went back for a reason that eludes me. First of all, the events occurring through the movie are OBVIOUS to all the characters but one continue to be in this inexplicable denial, and choose to remain. Second of all, if I realize that this house is definitely evil, and my family is out, but will return later that night, the first thing I will do is burn it down. Better to be jailed for arson than die, in my opinion. In fact this obvious blunder by the characters made me mad. I am actually mentally bothered by it.

If I see director Jaume Balaguero on the street I'm going to inform him of his stupidity. My only hope is that he would hear me out and never put out another S#!t movie.

My advice is rent Prophecy and call it a night.

If by 'horror' you mean 'horrible' then that is the correct genre of this movie. I took a date to it because she likes horror movies and rarely gets the opportunity to enjoy one. We sat down and got ready for some entertainment.

Instead, what was served to us was an eyesore of crap. Some movies rely on visual effects to stun their audiences. This movie was set in the desert, so there was no scenery change. The coolest effect I saw was someone on fire, and the fire was even questionable.

I'm not finished ragging yet.... The movie took FOREVER to get going. I think it was trying to hold our suspense, but instead it just bored me. The first 30 minutes is the family gasing up and changing their oil. The writers could have easily circumvented this whole pointless scene of them gasing up and getting bad directions by having them get lost and break down.

Also, I can understand the actors making cliché mistakes for the forwarding of the plot in standard horror movies, but this movie was ridiculous. I found myself constantly asking WHY would anyone in their right mind do that. They were practically killing themselves.

The freaks/zombies/whatever weren't scary. The special affects here included some 80s style horror flick face adhesives and some makeup. They weren't superhuman. They just seemed dumb and determined to rape/kill everyone. Given a 9mm with a full clip, a 5 year old could've taken them all down. I would've been more frightened of the radiation in the area making me sick than I would be from the mutants. Maybe next time have the radiation give them super abilities, like invisibility, so I don't have to see an abomination of make up artistry. And for god's sake, spend a little money on some up to date special effects.

This crap chute of a movie gets 2/10, for wasting my time, being disgusting, making my date feel awkward about rape, charging me to much money, and embarrassing itself to the public.