So disappointed in this piece of garbage, partly because I have a massive crush on Eli Roth. The whole time I was thinking how could this guy lower himself to be in such a juvenile horror flick? The movie was gory to the point of absurdity, with body parts flying around and heads being knocked off. You know when this movie would be a good one to watch? When you're sitting around with a bunch of friends, maybe having had a little too much to drink, and you want to hoot and holler and laugh. If that's the case, then this is your movie.

Eli Roth keeps making poor fiction and, somehow, I keep getting duped into watching his pro-antagonistic crap. There are numerous things wrong with this story. That is not a spoiler. You know that is true before you ever start watching am Eli Roth film. My problem with his story telling is that the bad folks never appropriately suffer for their evil deeds. Final consequence never seems to reach them, while the protagonists drop dead in the worst way imaginable. SPOILER! The murder gang never really dies on film. It can be assumed that they continue to rape, plunder, and murder, long after the last victim dies. In truth, the bad guys suffer no real consequences for being evil. Sure, a few are killed, but most of them are not, plus there is a reasonable possibility the escape the tsunami as well. There are a few film makers who have managed to get a foothold in Hollywood that no amount a consumer frustration can pry loose. Here is a man who might have done very well in another career, but is sadly trapped in the realm of mediocre film making. The whole point of his films seems to be making good people suffer, and I am not talking about the protagonist; I'm talking about you and me.

A really slow start - skip to about 0:20 or 0:25 or so, a few minutes before the earthquake starts. After that it's just one d*amned thing after another when the earthquake cracks open the prison and the inmates run wild. Rather grisly and unpleasant scenes, but not unrealistic, which just made them worse.

Probably should have avoided it for the persistent Eli Roth involvement, but considering this is meant to be a disaster type movie, it was grotesquely over the top in terms of pointless gore and death, above and beyond what would be realistically expected in an earthquake.i'm not even someone who gets sick or repulsed by gore in movies but much like fudgy chocolate cake, if you eat fifty pounds of it in one sitting, you'll never want it again and you'll wish everything around you was dead.this film takes a tediously long period of time to actually get to its core concept, spending way too long to build up a group of barely likeable characters cruising around Chilean nightlife looking for parties and women. Eventually they meet up with a group of three women in a club, when the earthquake strikes. I would conceivably believe that this would be some manner of colossal earthquake never before seen in size and scope because the way it so easily rips apart structures to paper is obviously over the top and for dramatic effect. Chile is not a third world country, and yet the way the buildings crumble and infrastructure falls apart feels third world. There's even an overly long sequence showing some completely pointless rioting occurring despite at least two Tsunami Warnings. ultimately it's really difficult to overstate just how copious and pointless the gore in this really is. We get far too many instances of random stuff falling and crushing people in various ways, a completely pointless out of nowhere old woman getting hit in the face by a car after emerging from a manhole, and a painfully long, spotted 18 miles away sequence with a cable trolley full of old women and children that ends up crashing after the cable snaps and killing everyone inside. Or a fire truck randomly crashing into some wooden scaffolding and impaling the firefighters inside. Or a random group of gangsters torturing a guy half-crushed under concrete and raping a woman in front of him then setting him on fire. Or escaped prisoners somehow more interested in raping and looting and killing rather than trying to survive. It's painful because it's so copious and intense without any real purpose or even story in mind. None of the characters is particularly interesting or likeable, and there's no real plot beyond "Go to a hospital somewhere and avoid contrived threats unrelated to the earthquake since, despite the title of the movie, there are apparently no aftershocks". I would not at all disbelieve that this "movie" was nothing more than a framing device for a various assortment of torture and gore scenes that wouldn't fit in anywhere else. Going back to my original cake idea, if you like gore in movies, this movie is a gigantic cake made entirely of frosting. No matter how much you like frosting, at some point you're going to feel like utter sh*t