I'm somewhat amazed by the review by James Berardinelli (and who is that guy, by the way). RAVENOUS is hardly a run-of-the-genre horror movie, although it is definitely horrific in the fullest sense of the word. If you can stay in your seat through the gratuitously gory first half (well, actually, the whole thing's gratuitously gory, but you become desensitized to it after a while), you find yourself having been set up for a fairly interesting meditation on ethics, on where my right to survive runs up against your right to survive, and ultimately on the nature of evil.
The movie occasionally becomes a bit knee-jerk leftist; there's a scene in which a U.S. flag, as the emblem of Manifest Destiny and Bad Things in General, flies prominently in the center of the screen throughout the dialogue -- a little ham-handed, especially given that Bird's a Brit, if I'm not mistaken. What do you think was going on in India at the time, Antonia, social work? Still, it's refreshing to see such things being grappled with, at least. Let's put it this way: it comes as no surprise to find out that Bird's a vegetarian.
Robert Carlyle is a force of nature, Guy Pearce is adequate but could have been more interesting, Jeffrey Jones is brilliant as always, I like David Arquette, I can't help it, and there you are.
The movie occasionally becomes a bit knee-jerk leftist; there's a scene in which a U.S. flag, as the emblem of Manifest Destiny and Bad Things in General, flies prominently in the center of the screen throughout the dialogue -- a little ham-handed, especially given that Bird's a Brit, if I'm not mistaken. What do you think was going on in India at the time, Antonia, social work? Still, it's refreshing to see such things being grappled with, at least. Let's put it this way: it comes as no surprise to find out that Bird's a vegetarian.
Robert Carlyle is a force of nature, Guy Pearce is adequate but could have been more interesting, Jeffrey Jones is brilliant as always, I like David Arquette, I can't help it, and there you are.