Long Weekend

After the excellent Storm Warning, I expected only the best from Jamie Blanks. Unfortunately, I’m not very satisfied with the result. Long Weekend is not about a revenge from Mother Nature (nature itself doesn’t cause the protagonists anything that in real life wouldn’t be called “quite unlucky but no big deal”), it’s just a 80-minute long boring plot vacuum, and the only thing that held my attention were the expectations that something would finally happen, as well as the amazement at the little things the protagonists go crazy about. The protagonists, by the way, are a chapter on their own, it’d be hard to find a more unlikeable couple (they reminded me of the recent not-quite-horror film Vinyan: Lost Souls…) The only thing that managed to surprise me was the ending, but quite unpleasantly it should be said, which exacerbated my disappointment. Technically, of course, it’s very good eye candy, but I’m not giving it another star for that; I think that’s par for the course for Blanks, and since he didn’t bring in anything else, I’m not going further than 2*. (29/07/2009)