Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Majorthebys Charming and brutal

Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

lois-lane33 I expected much more from a project that included Roland Emmerich-especially since he has been involved with such amazing movies like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow etc. I think that a daytime high of somewhere around 160 F would only spur the German's on to come up with ways of dealing with the situation rather than causing their entire society to implode into something resembling a giant junkyard. I would have thought that such a scenario would have been the perfect opportunity to use a soundtrack in a Tangerine Dream Sorcerer vein but there was nothing resembling a soundtrack unless you consider the obligatory inclusion of the only German top 40 song ever to be on the top 40 in the west: "99 Luft Balloons" which appears in the form of it being the CD of choice for a girl of about 14 in the film. Being kidnapped by cannibals as the focal point of the plot in a movie with this kind of scope is a serious anticlimax. Aside from the washed out with light approach to depicting the day side of 'a world gone to heat hell' there is little else in the way of anything special visually in this movie. It is really more of a cinematic burp than a movie. it comes in at under 90 minutes which I think defines a half effort rather than a full effort. The acting is OK-but given that the entire film takes place in something like three square km's of nothing, acting skills can't brighten up this dull dull dull script.

veo The idea of the Sun scorching everything is interesting and also an excellent pretext to make a low-budget movie that doesn't look low-budget (see also Blair Witch etc.). Beautifully shot, it is unusual enough to be worth seeing. The problem is the film isn't, in fact, about surviving in a time when the Sun destroyed everything, but this excellent idea is just an excuse for yet another "Wrong Turn" movie. Had they stayed on the idea of a scorched Earth movie, it could have been a memorable one. But they didn't, so you'll just remember it as "that European Wrong Turn with very strong light".Also, the ending isn't an ending, it just looks like they spent all money and had to go home, or they went as dry of ideas as the world in the film and had to go home. A film that won't bore you at all, but in the "end" you'll be disappointed it didn't have better ideas.

rooee The marketing might make much of Roland Emmerich producing involvement, but while this low-budget German survivor story is set the day after tomorrow but it's about as far from The Day After Tomorrow as you can get. The sun is flaring and Earth's temperature has risen ten degrees. A group of survivors, led by tough Marie (Hannah Herzsprung), make their way toward the mountains, toward water. As with John Hillcoat's The Road, this is a tale about the day-to-day fight for survival after a nameless cataclysm has befallen the planet. But while Hillcoat's film was perennially chilly, writer-director Tim Fehlbaum's is all about the lethal glare of the sun. The conceit of the characters having to avoid direct sunlight seems like an affectionate nod to Kathryn Bigelow's vampire classic Near Dark. It adds an intriguing extra dimension to many scenes. The film begins as a fairly standard waste-crawler, but gradually turns into a Texas Chain Saw Massacre-style nightmare, as Marie and her sister find themselves the prisoners of a ghastly family, led by a monstrous matriarch, horribly rational and literal in her attempts to ensure her family's survival. Fehlbaum draws impressive intensity from the actors and delivers a series of tense set-pieces. In the final act I feared events would lurch into torture porn territory, but on the contrary, it's at this point that the films characters properly emerge, and the humanity of the piece comes to light. What could have been a film about cannibalism is actually about sisterhood. On a technical level, the film is well shot. But the editing is at times of the chaotic variety: needless rapid cutting. I guess this technique is meant to bring across the thrill and confusion of the moment, but for me the filmmaker is giving us a sense of the experience at the expense of us actually understanding what's going on. Not a trade worth making, in my opinion. There's nothing much new in Hell, but as a refined, engrossing amalgamation of well-worn ideas, it hangs together nicely, all the way up to the disappointingly sudden ending.

stickler-2 Jeez, Some of the reviews on here are tough. This is a well acted, well shot creepy post-apocalyptic independent film!Is it perfect? What film- or for that matter what work of art- is perfection? It seems that IMDb has become a meeting place for all the review-trolls on the internet. Let's all log on and say how bad everyone's attempts at art are.Do any of these reviewers know the artistry it takes to shoot and cut together a film like HELL? I say kudos to the entire crew and certainly to the cast which were all top notch actors.Did the other reviewers watch the same film I did? This is hands down one of the best films I've seen recently.