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(1 - 28) of 28 OFCS Rating: 54% Rotten Page   1   3.5/5 "a shocking and disturbing experience that slaughters any comedic notions audiences may have after realizing they're watching a movie about killer flowers."   Filmcritic.com   Blake French A- "Near-perfect at manipulating its audience...it's a marvelous nightmare machine."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf "The tourists' fears have infected their very beings, and their decisions are increasingly ineffective precisely because they are based on fear and ignorance."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 4/5 "It may be just another white-kids-get-killed chiller, but it's a solidly made white-kids-get-killed chiller; nothing new, yet expertly put together."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius 2.5/4 "...one's interest tends to flag in between the appreciatively gruesome set-pieces..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 2.5/4 "Because the film works so splendidly for so long, the sole misstep that The Ruins takes is a major one, ending on a note of disappointment. What comes before this is superbly crafted and as tight as a vise grip, worth seeing for that alone."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman B- "It may not be as fundamentally unsettling as the book was, but it's not a bad horror flick."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider "... soft-core torture porn that quite literally sets up its pretty, Hollywood protagonists for brutal sacrifice."   DVD Review   Felix Gonzalez Jr. 3/4 "Throw out your Chia Pets, burn your Daffodils, and kick your local Venus Flytrap, "The Ruins" is a very good little horror film..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. D "At once silly, gross and boring...aims to be something more than a generic vacationing-twentysomethings-in-peril movie, [but] its pretensions make it even more ludicrous."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek B- "Apparently our greatest enemy is evolution itself. (Especially when it's taught in schools?)"   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 3/4 "The Ruins does what a good psychological horror movie should do: rely on tension rather than gore to achieve its aims."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 7/10 "I enjoyed most of the picture, particularly its ending, which much like the rest of the movie, remained pretty dark and pessimistic."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 4/10 "...gets bloodier as it goes along, substituting close-up gore for horror, grossness for fright. (Unrated Edition)"   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 2.5/4.0 "Letting it get under your skin doesn't sound so bad once it gets inside your head."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson A "The Ruins is one of the creepiest, most disturbing tales to hit theaters in months. If there is a film that is guaranteed to make your skin crawl, this one is it."   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr C+ "...like "Touristas" with a better cast, higher production values and a supernatural edge...hits all the novel's outer horror touch points, but director Carter Smith doesn't let them build so much as check them off a list that he's rushing through"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "So bereft of creativity that it fails even to deliver to its base--teenage boys--the ghouls and boobs they so desperately want to see."   Reverse Shot   Leo Goldsmith B- "The lack of explanations in The Ruins may prove unsatisfying to some, but the unknown is often more terrifying than the tangible. Such are the wages of fear."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer 2.5/4 "It's just weird: the movie fixed the flaws in the book, but screwed up the stuff that was most effective on the page. Go figure."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan 2/4 "The film's depiction of deteriorating-under-pressure group dynamics comes to an abrupt end just as it gets going"   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 2/5 "There are a handful of intense sequences and a few scenes of squirm-inducing gore in The Ruins, but not much else. The film is based on Scott Smith’s excellent book, but does little to capture the novel’s sense of terror and hopelessness."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 1/5 "The characters are so one-note and unlikable that most viewers will find themselves looking forward to their grisly demises because it means that they won't be annoying us anymore."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2.5/5 "Well filmed and acted, but with a plot as cheesy as a 1950s B-movie, this film is fairly creepy but not very scary"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 4/5 "It isn't one of the brightest lights in horror-film history, but it does its job remorselessly and well."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves 4/5 "It's both craftily creepy (in a subtle way) and powerfully visceral (in a kick-ass way), plus it delivers its payload in a slick and efficient 91-minute burst of nastiness."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg 2/10 "There's really nothing in the film of any entertainment value, not even the inadvertent sort."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 3/4 "If it could happen to these kids, smart and beautiful, then it sure as shit is going to happen to me."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 28) of 28 OFCS Rating: 54% Rotten Page   1