What happened to Eli Roth? The man went from being one of the best up-and-coming horror directors, to directing trash.

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“The Green Inferno,” directed by Roth and starring Lorenza Izzo and Daryl Sabara, makes the worst horror films look good.

Just when I started to think pretentious filmmaking reached its peak, someone comes up and reminds me there is so much more ostentatiousness to go around.

This movie rivals some of the worst movies of the year. “The Green Inferno,” will be joining “50 Shades of Grey,” “Mortdecai” and “Pixels” as 2015 failures.

Roth, who is also one of the screenwriters, builds straw people through this film and lets them burn, thinking he has made great points.

An easy way to make a terrible film is forgetting good storytelling and character development, Roth does that. He instead pushes a message down viewer’s throats.

The worst part about this, is even the director cannot stick to his own logic. The whole movie is about social justice warriors and those who try and save the world behind a computer screen.

But those are not the characters Roth creates. Some go to the Amazon for bad reasons, but for the most part, these are individuals who get away from Twitter, and go to help.

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He affectively ruins any point he is trying to make in the first 30 minutes.

This movie is also poorly made. If the only problem was a propaganda filming style, I could have gotten past that with great dialogue or visual effects, but this movie has nothing.

From dialogue sounding like a frat boy wrote it, to acting involving poor accents and deliveries, this movie is bad from beginning to end.  

It is a pain to watch for all the wrong reasons.

Stars: 1 out of 5.