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So Wrong Turn had six films of varying degrees of enjoyment. Even the worst of the bunch had stuff in them to enjoy. Wrong Turn 2021...well it was a complete mess of a film. The film tries to be cute by making an in-joke about it being a "good thing it isn't yet another inbred cannibal film". Well maybe if it was, people would have enjoyed it. The premise is ridiculous. A secret, hundreds of year's old society hiding in the Virginia woods lives in perfect harmony. All the races and sexes get along, all sharing equally, all contributing equally, no disease, and hates outsiders. Picture what a hippie thinks is utopia but in reality it's a lame commune of dorks who have made up their own dumb language and dress like Arthurian Druids. Our "heroes" are the most obnoxious blend of millennial hipster super woke progressive dolts who check all the diversity box requirements. Every word out of their mouths is really smug, obnoxious, or just plain irritating. There is no character development, no backstory aside from their hillbilly smack down where they prove how tough they are by stating their professions of nonprofit organizer and bistro owner! It's a laughable scene and totally ridiculous. But aside from that...and a grating, self-righteous monologue from Darius in where he's preaching about the woes of Wallstreet and how awesome his nonprofit comrades are, we get nothing. Even some of the lamest slashers give us a little more. But whatever. Long story short, they intrude on the hippie's land, people are killed, and two are forced to stay and become part of the commune. Of course papa is looking for his daughter (one of the millennials forced to now stay at the commune and be wife to the hippie lord in charge -even though they are all equal ha!) and he goes searching for her. By this point - six weeks mind you - the daughter has become a master woodsman, expert in combat with knives and bow, can even work a gun etc. etc. From here on out we'll call her ultra daughter! Papa finds ultra daughter but he's imprisoned, blah, blah, blah, it gets really dull here and it becomes the typical "let's wander around for the next 30 minutes doing nothing". They escape because ultra daughter is a combat master ninja and can beat anyone up! I wish I had that six week course! But the evil hippie lord ain't having it so he tracks they back home. Now we do have a cool scene of ultra daughter and hippie lord fighting in the house, and the actions would have been more believable than the actual ending, but of course it's all a daydream. So the cool little fight is ruined in favor of the really dumb ending. Hippie lord demands ultra daughter come back with him to birth their child and she agrees. So they all hop in the Jonestown bus, which is filled with other evil hippies and take off for Virginia. The bus takes off but...it immediately crashes. Ultra daughter now graduates to ultra Mary Sue, because she kills everyone in the bus off screen (because it would be way to unbelievable to show it so just take their word for it!) Then ultra Mary Sue leaves the bus to hunt down the last guy who is stumbling away. She takes him down with a terrible cgi knife throw and walks off into the sunset with a moody rendition of "This Land is Your Land" playing in the background. So now you can roll your eyes and hate yourself because you just wasted 9$ thinking you were going to get another fun, inbred cannibal mutilating teens afternoon romp...but instead you got the "Hippies of Utopia Mountain vs. Super Sue the Master Ninja".
February 2021 · Movies and TV · verified purchase
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Wrong Turn (2020)
4.0★ · 25,677 ratings, as of 2023
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