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- Release Date: April 4, 2008
- Director: Carter Smith
- Screenplay by: Scott Smith
- Starring: Jonathan Tucker, Shawn Ashmore, Laura Ramsey, Joe Anderson, and Jena Malone
- MPAA Rating: R
- Run time: 91 minutes
- Distributor: DreamWorks SKG
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This page contains reviews of The Ruins, a film adaptation of the bestselling 2006 novel by Scott Smith.
Plot
Two couples vacationing in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula embark on a fateful archaeological dig in the jungle, and stumble on a Mayan village and its nearby mysterious ruins. The discovery leaves them in a fight for their survival.Quotes
The Ruins is lumpish, static, and obvious. It's a gringos-go-home cautionary fright flick done in the spirit of a cheap '50s horror movie, except that it leaves you longing for the competence of grade-Z studio-system trash. The film barely comes to life outside of several gory mutilation scenes, including one shockingly gratuitous double-leg amputation performed as a desperate act of survival — an unnecessary effort, really, given how little the audience has invested in whether any of these chuckleheads lives or dies. C- — Entertainment WeeklyAlthough The Ruins is unquestionably horror, as the central conceit confirms, it belongs to a shrinking sub-category of the genre: adult films more concerned with generating tension and promoting viewer unease than reveling in an orgy of unrelenting violence. In order to appreciate The Ruins, one has to be a die-hard fan of horror or bloody thrillers. Those in that category will discover that The Ruins delivers the goods. It deserves better from its distributor than to have been hidden from critics and slipped quietly into theaters. — ReelViews
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The Ruins Reviews on Amazon
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Burying the Secret.(Burying the Secret: The Road to Ruin is Paved with Books about the Law of Attraction)(Book review): An article from: Reviewer's Bookwatch - $9.95
This digital document is an article from Reviewer's Bookwatch, published by Midwest Book Review on February 1, 2008. The length of the article is 429 words. The page length shown a...Amazon
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Cowie, Jefferson and Joseph Heathcott, eds: Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization.(Book Review): An article from: Canadian Journal of Urban Research - $5.95
This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of Urban Research, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2005. The length of the article is 795 words. The page length sho...Amazon
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War and Ruin: William T. Sherman and the Savannah Campaign.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History - $5.95
This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on February 1, 2004. The length of the article is 520 words. The ...Amazon
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The Ruins,or, Meditation on The Revolutions of Empires - $4.95
From Preface: "Having recently purchased a set of stereotyped plates of Volney's Ruins, with a view of reprinting the same, I found, on examination, that they were considerably...Amazon
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Building from the wreckage.(In the Ruins of the Church: Sustaining Faith in an Age of Diminished Christianity)(Book Review) (book review): An article from: ... Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life - $5.95
This digital document is an article from First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, published by Institute on Religion and Public Life on June 1, 2003. The length...Amazon
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The Ruins Good Reviews
- MiamiHerald.com (2.5/4): The Ruins Review
- "with one major caveat, about as good an adaptation of Scott Smith's bestselling novel as Hollywood was ever going to make."
- Ain't It Cool News: Is The Ruins Any Good? Capone Surprisingly Says Yes!
- "The Ruins will make you scream, squirm, cringe, bite your nails, perhaps even dry heave or throw up in your mouth. The one thing it will not do is bore you."
- Bloody Disgusting (0/10): The Ruins Review
- "...it's really nothing new or all that original, but any hardcore horror nut will have a blast with it."
- RopeofSilicon.com: The Ruins Review
- "For the majority of its 90 minute runtime The Ruins really works, and it only loses its appeal once; in the moments leading up to the finale..."
- JoeBlo.com (8/10): The Ruins Review
- "...in its own frighteningly beautiful way, it is in fact one of the most refreshingly original horror films in the past few years."
The Ruins Bad Reviews
- Variety: The Ruins Review
- "The novel offered a certain psychological depth; not so the film, which comes off essentially as routine, conceptually silly horror content."
- The Hollywood Reporter: The Ruins Review
- "Give neophyte director Carter Smith and Scott Smith, adapting his own novel, an A for making an effort to evolve a fresh horror flick but a C for execution and D for too many cheap thrills."
- The New York Times: The Ruins Review
- "The Ruins could have been the most politically provocative horror film since Bug was released last year. It settles for gore and pain instead."
- Los Angeles Times: The Ruins Review
- "Not even a fixer-upper, The Ruins should be considered a complete tear-down."
- Metromix (2.5/5): The Ruins Review
- "At least the killer plant in Little Shop of Horrors could talk..."
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- MiamiHerald.com (2.5/4): The Ruins Review
