The plot as many has mentioned is so stupidly predictable from the verybeginning. What really annoyed me though was how it stereotypesAmerican going to developing countries and acting...well like ignorantAmerican tourists just asking to be robbed, ridiculed, and/or raped. Imean, who in their right mind, male or female, would dress up and go toa local bar in a small, little town out in the middle of nowhere.

What gets to me most though is this very Hollywood, developed worldperspective that all developing countries from Asia to South America toEast Europe are dangerous places where deviants and criminals areconstantly roaming around hunting and kidnapping innocent, naiveAmerican tourists. This is as far from reality as it gets. Well that'sHollywood for you and the 5.2/10 is well-deserved.

I watched 80% of this movie and could take no more when the cliché gotneck-deep. It was bad enough that the filmmaker expects me to careabout some whore who gets kidnapped. No, sorry, I was actually glad tosee her go.

In any case, whore gets taken, dumb friend finds her throughunbelievable luck, they get away, have the antagonist at bay, can takehim out, but stop pathetically short. Then we have the quintessentialvehicle-that-always-started-fine-suddenly-won't scene. And then I hitStop.

As always, I request that idiots who appreciate crap movies to rate myreview as not helpful. Thank you.

Stephanie (Amber Heard) and Ellie's (Odette Yustman) vacation to anexotic village in Argentina is a perfect 'girl's getaway' to bask inthe sun, shop and flirt with the handsome locals. After a long night ofbar- hopping, the girls get into an argument, and Stephanie heads outalone in the morning to cool off. But when she returns, Ellie hasdisappeared. Finding signs of a struggle, Stephanie fears the worst,and turns to the police for help. But the local authorities have theirhands full already - with a string of unsolved kidnappings targetingyoung female tourists. Skeptical of the sheriff's competency, sheenlists help from Michael (Karl Urban), an American ex-pat staying attheir hotel. Together they go on a frantic search for Ellie, butStephanie soon realizes that trusting his seemingly good intentions maydrag her farther from the truth. With danger mounting, and time runningout, Stephanie must find her friend before darkness falls.

well not much to say about this movie, i will keep my review short.this movie went on DVD soon after it was released. it is a low budgetmovie. i saw it for the actors. this movie was seriously very bad.direction, screenplay, story, plot everything was cliché and bad. somethrills towards the end but on the whole it is a boring, dull and awfulcliché so called road trip thriller. awful.

Chick flick with beautiful Argentine landscapes. Moral: women arealways right, no matter how stupid one of them happens to be. The onlygood thing is that the women are unnecessarily scantily clad (nothinginappropriate) during the first part of the movie. Men are always bad,no matter how good they appear to be. The possibly sleazy Argentinefellows at the beginning are, not surprisingly, actually sleazy badguys. The policeman, not surprisingly, is the primary nemesis. Thehandsome American is not the white knight he appears to be. The onlygood thing about the bad guys is they are easily overpowered, tricked,and killed when convenient. If you find yourself greatly surprised byanything, then welcome to the world of predictable movies. Snore.

Two young attractive girls are biking through Argentina. They misstheir bus to leave and stay a bit longer, when they get into a fightone of them leaves the other by herself. Big mistake, the girl getsherself kidnapped. Now her friend must try to find her.

The film never tries to elevate the genre that it is in, nor make itinteresting. And Soon The Darkness manages to follow the footpath ofevery film before it, thus making it boring and predictable. First wehave our two female characters. One is obviously a trouble maker andthe rebel, while the other is more conservative. Guess which one getsherself kidnapped and which one has to rise to the occasion to get herfriend back? The two female characters are played by Odette Yustman andAmber Heard, they fit their roles of attractive young females. Theroles don't call for anything beyond that really.

The biggest letdown, had to be Karl Urban. His character is somewhatpointless. He doesn't advance the plot, his story line is leftunfinished and Urban himself seems to be bored with the material. Ilike the guy, but he needs to pick better projects than this. Now thatI have my biggest letdown out of the way, let me tell you where elsethis film went wrong.

The main reason for the girl getting kidnapped is due to thecharacter's stupidity. The two girls get into a verbal argument, onestorms off leaving the other. Who would leave their best friend in themiddle of nowhere in a foreign country? On top of that, they stateearlier that they were part of a bike tour group, but got lost from thepack? These point in the film had me scratching my head.

The film doesn't really know what it wants to be either, it reminded mea lot of Turistas. These characters are in a beautiful location, thefilm knows this and it is shot fairly well. There are bits of torture,yet the film never steers into that Hostel, or Saw territory. It comesoff as very tame, I'm surprised it is even restricted. The film caneasily be a PG-13 flick.

There are no surprises, you know from the moment you see thecharacters, who is responsible for what. The film tries to be clever tothrow a curveball, but as I mentioned before, we have seen this type offilm before and it's obvious where it was going. The film even lackssuspense. The kidnapping scene is poorly done, the climax is also athird rate cat and mouse game. The film fails to create any tension andthat was a key element missing from here. Too many things were leftunanswered for me. The two people who ran the hotel, do they knowanything? Are they in on it? Does the wife try to warn them, but thehusband put her in her place? Who knows.

And Soon The Darkness peaked my interest, but is failed to excite me.If Karl Urban was not in it, I would never have bothered with it. Youshould do yourself a favour too and skip it.