Described as a movie with elements from The Descent and Wrong Turn, there was no way I could resist picking this movie up. High Lane starts out promising, with gorgeous aerial views of the Balkans. Though the acting was terrible and the plot was predictable before any diologue between characters, the tension factor kept this movie interesting for the first half-hour or so, with excellent shots of the group of hikers scaling cliffs and making their way across a footbridge. This action had my heart pounding and I was loving it.
Unfortunately, the moving became uninteresting before anyone ran into the real problem, a crazed-Wrong Turnesque-lunatic named Anton, living in a cabin in the woods. There was no backstory to this guy, other than his name carved on a door in his torture cabin.
The plot fell apart so quickly that the movie came to an end by telling the viewer, via screen text, that the bodies of the group members were never found, and that people go missing in the Balkans quite regularly. Apparently the director realized what a goof of a movie this was and decided to throw in the towel before any resolve could be made.
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