Title: An Exercise In Tedium
Review: The title for this should've been "And Soon The Beigeness."The original "And Soon The Darkness" was an effective little ninety minute exercise in paranoia which benefited from a script from the godfathers of British TV fantasy, Brian Clemens and Terry Nation, decent performances and some spookily evocative direction.The remake fails on all levels.The director has not a wit of an idea of how to create tension; the two female leads are adepts of the histrionic Hollywood school of acting; Karl Urban (who is generally a decent actor) is given nothing to do, and the twists and turns are completely predictable.Worst of all, it's yet another excuse for the Yanks to engage in their racist paranoia about South Americans.It's not interesting enough to be good and not bad enough to be enjoyable.Avoid this one like the plague. I paid $1.50 to see it and ended up fast-forwarding through the last half hour. It made ninety minutes feel like a lifetime.
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