Survival just made the syllabus. Nice tag line. Probably the reason why I thought I was dealing with a simple splatter comedy or something, but this movie is more than just that. Breezy and light-hearted when it introduces itself, sinister and dark when it reaches its boiling point. Lord of the Flies during a pandemic, something like that. Plenty to chew on and tonally offbeat, which might make it difficult to fully get into it, but it gives the movie…

Not a lot of red dot in Red Dot, which is a pity, because those scenes, on the snowy plains of northern Sweden, are by far the best this movie has to offer. Instead, it has a lot of writing. The contrived, far-fetched and ultimately insufferable kind. There's a twist that is just, well, embarrassing. And not just that, in order for it to make some sort of sense it needs a lot of explaining. Like, a whole lot. Enter…

Exceptionally well executed horror. The use of lighting, the color scheme, the camera moves and the sound design; it looks and sounds terrific. Those gunshots for instance. The first one made me swear and cheer in three different languages. Then there's Big Norm, the blind man. A formidable figure who unexpectedly wakes up and makes sudden appearances. Nothing like the cheap jump scares you see so often. And he shows no fear. He's the kind of guy that probably thinks…

Bring out all your superheroes, tear down all the CGI cities you want or destroy complete planets for all I care, I will always prefer this kind of pure action. And Baxley was quite good at it in those years. Dolph Lundgren too, that's a pretty sweet roundhouse kick early on, but his ruthless cop is also having a bad day as his partner goes down. In comes a new one. A by the book fed. That means male bonding…