The first fifteen minutes of this are okay - three Americans are hiking in the mountains somewhere in Georgia (the country, not the state) and one of them steps on a landmine. He can't move or he'll blow up. This is a reasonable premise for a suspense movie and is set up quite nicely. Then suddenly, everything changes. One character disappears, never to be heard from or thought about again, only to be replaced by a super-rapey Georgian Ron Jeremy lookalike. The dude on the landmine (which quickly becomes a secondary, if not tertiary, plot device) is forced to stand and watch about an hour's worth of sustained sexual assault rendered unto his female friend.

Just when this grim, puerile,…

Landmind Goes Click is a filthy, vile, mean spirited film that somehow manages to have the worst of intentions and purpose for existing, but at the same time is also too amateurish to take seriously, too ridiculous to offer any kind of immersion and too focused on its own disgusting fantasy elements to claim itself as a cautionary message or satire.  To put it mildly: it's a piece of shit. But we're off to the races to find out exactly WHY it's such a fucking disaster. So let's go to the tale of the tape!

The basic outline here is this: people are horrendous garbage who do terrible, selfish things to make themselves feel like god.  And after such things…

Landmine Goes Click is a Hostel style American tourists getting into trouble in Europe movie. Three friends are hiking in Georgia. We spend a few minutes setting up the characters by way of some hating on Russia and a nod to Jackie Brown, then the main plot device kicks in when one of them stands on a landmine. To really say much more than that would be spoiling things, but suffice to say the film comes in thick and fast with the plot twists and twisted humour, and this really isnt the kind of movie it looks like its going to be. The film effectively has two big set piece scenes. Both of them work by piling on the suspense…

The way they blended the model sets with the live action shots was honestly impressive — it's super hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. Also, pretty sure Devi (devil, anyone?) was lowkey trying to get Chris killed on that landmine. And that girl who was literally right next to the guy a second ago suddenly can't walk over to lock the landmine? Come on.

If Ilya's whole thing was to assault Alicia, why is he spending so much time negotiating? Yeah, I don't think that was the original plan — Chris and Alicia just kept pushing his buttons with all those slurs and set him off. Oh, and heads up — the plot summary on Letterboxd…

A good film in the same vein as I spit on your grave and other rape films like that. But what makes it good are the performances and the second half of the film. The performances are all really on point, especially the “bad guy”. Seeing his demeanor change between the first and second half is so realistic. Unfortunately, and though I like the second half of the film, the very end is a bit too much. Not in its violence or anything. But it didn’t really make sense in the context of the film. Is the point that violence in all forms is wrong? That retribution is wrong? How easy it is for “good” to become “evil”? I don’t really…