Cardone's style with the unpleasant material is as ruthlessly cut-and-slash as that of his blood-sucking villains.
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04/30/01
The Forsaken (2001)
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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:4
Rotten:49
Average Rating:3.3/10
Consensus: It's all been done before, and done better.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US Box Office: $6,258,942
Synopsis: Driving cross-country to deliver a vintage Mercedes, Sean (Kerr Smith) does the one thing he wasn't supposed to do -- pick up a hitchhiker. From that moment on, his road trip is transformed into a... [More]
Starring: Kerr Smith, Brendan Fehr, Johnathon Schaech, Izabella Miko
Director: J.S. Cardone
Reviews for The Forsaken
An annoying one-two-three punch of crappy acting, shoddy scriptwriting, and poor direction.
04/30/01
Worth it for the surreal suspense it belts out.
04/30/01
There are serious amounts of vampire letting, and some unintentional chuckles.
04/30/01
This slight but not altogether uninteresting monster opera can be a hoot.
04/30/01
Top CriticThe flick's ultrahip style is forced, always in your face and results in more posturing than plot.
04/30/01
Strangely unenergetic.
04/30/01
It trots out its full arsenal of shock tactics far too early in the game and squanders the suspense it has accumulated.
04/30/01
Top CriticDoesn’t infuse the vampire genre with new life, instead leaving it as listless as a dot-com stock.
04/27/01
The poor acting in the film makes the whole experience a pain in the neck.
04/27/01
Has no style, humor or scary parts.
04/27/01
Puked-up blood, inexplicable explosions and naked breasts are pretty much all The Forsaken has to offer.
04/27/01
Unoriginal but not terrible.
04/27/01
This is so badly made that it even botches the post-climax ending, spinning the last scenes out so that, for a moment, I was afraid the survivors were heading off for more adventures.
04/27/01
Toothless bloodsuckers will bore you to death.
04/27/01
Even if you're nostalgic for, say, Galaxy of Terror or Death Race 2000, you're better off waiting for this one on video.
04/27/01
A hip, revisionist horror picture which borrows liberally — and cannily — from Near Dark and The Hitcher.
04/27/01
There's a certain grim efficiency to J.S. Cardone's grubby stalking-vampires-in-the-desert-southwest movie; whether that's enough to justify a trip to your local multiplex, however, is rather doubtful.
04/27/01
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