To begin with, 'Bone Breaker' introduces us to a bunch of casually attractive go-getters whose dialogue consists mainly of motivational speeches and modern day cliches, either to themselves or their fellows: 'Not gonna lie', 'that's the badger', 'we only want people that look the part', 'I need to be taken seriously', 'I'm not just a pretty face'... and so on. It's established that in this clique, only pretties are allowed, only toned, fitness obsessed skinnies are wanted. On their vibrant platform of the internet, it's all about self-promotion and followers. If you like spending your time with people that talk like this, you'll enjoy the characters. Or not, of course - the bitchy exchanges between them encourage us not to take them too seriously. But really, their 'hashtag' quotes and exchanges and ideas about their own self-worth are *loathsome*. The gym-bods on very self-satisfied display are surely to be despatched by the mad hammer-dragger at loose in the woods as displayed on the DVD cover. That's the hope.
The pacing of 'Bone Breaker' is odd. The girls are attacked by someone who receives no-build up, and then left. The audience is then treated to drawn out scenes of them in varying degrees of pain, out in the biting wilderness (and it really does look freezingly cold). Their plight is communicated very well (especially Rachel, played by Sophie Jones),but there's no subsequent progression for ages, before the villain returns to administer a little more bloodless violence.
Exasperatingly, the girls actually see the killer as a fitness rival. "I'm better than you, faster than you," Ruby (Lucy Arden) taunts the weapon carrying psychopathic antagonist. Not only is this unwise, it demonstrates the swathe of the arrogance and shallowness displayed by the people we are supposedly meant to route for. There's no need to make our heroines this dreadful.
I noticed a location toward the end that seemed familiar - turns out 'Boner Breaker' is produced by many of the same team responsible for 'Dark Path (2020),' including writer/director Nicholas Winter. There are further similarities: a cast of mainly strong-minded females, with a handful of ineffectual males; pursuit through woodlands, and the finale, both of which end in a similar manner. My score is 5 out of 10.
Bone Breaker
2020
Action / Drama / Thriller
Bone Breaker
2020
Action / Drama / Thriller
Keywords: survivalwildernessviolent death
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A group of friends looking for a weekend of fun mistakenly cross paths with the Bone Breaker, turning their trip into a fight for survival.
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Nasty characters in nasty situations.
Makes even the most Generic Film seem 180% more Complex than this!
Ok so finished watching after recently buying & damn why did I predict this was going to be bad!?
The film starts out ok, until it gets to the story where with the help of some eye candy it sort of improves. But typically like that of all Straight-To-DVD Films, the quality of acting, filming & editing really shows. It's not convincing enough & comes off as fake.
The films plot made paper seem thicker. It was THAT thin. Honestly, there was no reasoning or point behind the premise or it's antagonist. Basically a group of young women get invited to a remote forest to supposedly shoot a fitness video, but as predicted, that's not case as the villain has other plans. She basically wants to kill these women & it's camera crew in a Hunger Games esque type fashion. That's it. No reason. No point. Not even remotely a viable reason, just let's them roam around as she walks over to them slowly like Michael Myers, killing them in gruesome ways with weapons she has hidden in places only she knows they're hidden. Wow.
The gore was pathetic. The violence ok. The kills ok. The story was just so simple that it wasn't even a plot. It was just 1 hour & 8 minutes or so of the group being killed off so easily by this woman who looked not the least bit scary or intimidating. She's could've been easily over powered by these guys, but nope. For the sake of plot convenience, the villain is strong & the victims no matter how fit & healthy are weak & helpless, not convincing.
The end was dumb. They boyfriend was never seen again or killed I don't know but he just vanished & the "final girl" just had to win.
Overall a plot less, short & pointless film that wasn't even scary or sinister. Eye candy gains a point & I think 2/10 is bloody generous given the mess this film was.
Please
Give us a "0" stars option for movies of this "Calibre". This movie is absolute rubbish. There are 6 or 7 "Victims" including several men that couldn't between them take down a 65 kilo woman? Really? Do the idiots that vomited this garbage onto our screens really think that we'd be impressed with this poor effort?The plot is terrible, the acting is just awful and honestly I could name several things I'd rather do than watch this again, multiple dental extractions without anaesthetic being one of them.Avoid this like you would a forest full of dumb bimbos, woke men and an unrealistically sadistic woman.