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What happens when someone takes a bunch of foreign actors who haven't been in many movies before and makes them speak English?! Exactly!! You burst out laughing. That's the first problem with Urban Explorer. The acting is just an insult to the audience. Now the second problem besides the acting is the dialog. It is absolutely ridiculous. Lines like -this is the piano that Hitler used to lure in slaves- are really laugh out loud jokes you could expect from an episode of Family Guy. I mean if they were going for a Grindhouse or comedy-trash film then a line like that would just be perfect, but Urban Explorer doesn't want to be funny. It wants to be dead serious and scary as hell. So we go on... We deal with the bad acting and the awful dialog and get midway into the movie where the storyline takes a twist into the torture porn genre. (Mind you. I have nothing against torture porn and i hate calling it that!) So what happens then?! You know a German horror film usually isn't really a German horror film unless it bluntly imitates another film?! (Please close your eyes and guess now.) Exactly! Urban Explorer starts imitating hostel in very obvious original way. However, since the actors are totally awful the film somehow feels like it's this slapstick version of "Hostel"! It's like you're watching a freakin' Tom and Jerry episode! So we keep going. Laughing as the pseudo-scares keep coming. When we get towards the end, Urban Explorer than has its slapstick take on "Creep" and "Midnight Meat Train" keeping the imitations coming like there's no tomorrow.
Well... There you have it folks! Another movie with a great lighting good effects and an original premise getting ruined by bad acting, awful dialog and an unoriginal storyline. Too bad! This movie really makes Alone in the Dark and Sweatshop look like Academy Award winning films. Only watch for laughs! Unintentional laughs that is...
What happens when someone takes a bunch of foreign actors who haven't been in many movies before and makes them speak English?! Exactly!! You burst out laughing. That's the first problem with Urban Explorer. The acting is just an insult to the audience. Now the second problem besides the acting is the dialog. It is absolutely ridiculous. Lines like -this is the piano that Hitler used to lure in slaves- are really laugh out loud jokes you could expect from an episode of Family Guy. I mean if they were going for a Grindhouse or comedy-trash film then a line like that would just be perfect, but Urban Explorer doesn't want to be funny. It wants to be dead serious and scary as hell. So we go on... We deal with the bad acting and the awful dialog and get midway into the movie where the storyline takes a twist into the torture porn genre. (Mind you. I have nothing against torture porn and i hate calling it that!) So what happens then?! You know a German horror film usually isn't really a German horror film unless it bluntly imitates another film?! (Please close your eyes and guess now.) Exactly! Urban Explorer starts imitating hostel in very obvious original way. However, since the actors are totally awful the film somehow feels like it's this slapstick version of "Hostel"! It's like you're watching a freakin' Tom and Jerry episode! So we keep going. Laughing as the pseudo-scares keep coming. When we get towards the end, Urban Explorer than has its slapstick take on "Creep" and "Midnight Meat Train" keeping the imitations coming like there's no tomorrow.
Well... There you have it folks! Another movie with a great lighting good effects and an original premise getting ruined by bad acting, awful dialog and an unoriginal storyline. Too bad! This movie really makes Alone in the Dark and Sweatshop look like Academy Award winning films. Only watch for laughs! Unintentional laughs that is...