If the aim was to recreate the low-rent cannibal movies of the 70s/80s, then The Green Inferno succeeds. In the process, however, we are left with a weakly-scripted, uninteresting and underwhelming experience here. Visually, the saturated greens and reds make the movie pop off the screen, but otherwise the dull dialogue, variable performances and complete lack of surprise are all unengaging. There is heavy-handed signposting (our student heroine attends a lecture at the start that includes references to female genital mutilation and ant-torture, so no prizes for guessing what features later on), but as the characters are largely underdeveloped and mostly unlikeable, there is not even much fun in waiting to see who gets dismembered/tortured/eaten next, and at its core the film even fails to shock, simply being routinely tasteless and unpleasant. The Green Inferno is not one of Eli Roth's best.
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