Desaparecidos

If you are new to Brazilian cinema, please do not take this film to be a good example of the country's production.

The writer/director set out to do a "Blair Witch Project"-like movie, incorporating fake social networks profiles and fake news (somewhat alike to what was done for "The Fourth Kind").

The end result was dismal.

The movie fails to create a credible atmosphere from its beginning throughout the end. The actresses are reduced to screaming their way through the film - one of them can be seen frequently giggling. Acting is bad. Very bad. Monotone intonations abound. When overacting is not the case, what you get is expressionless faces. Sound and visual effects are risible at their best, sad elsewhere. The creature is crude. The argument is all but nonexistent. Dialogues actually increase disbelief. There's an excessive and unrealistic use of profanity by the characters, especially before the "plot thickens".

Bottom line: if you sit and watch paint dry, you can at least hope to accomplish something in the way of meditation - no such relief can be found in this movie, even though it is as exciting.