Review – The Ruins

This is better than the book only in that it isn’t as long. And that is an actual improvement, because if the only thing a story has to offer the world is the agonizing deaths of characters the audience doesn’t care about, then such an experience is more pleasant when it ends after 90 minutes rather than stretching out over more than 300 pages. The truncation of Scott Smith’s story also eliminates some of the annoying elements from the book. For example, here the plants only imitate sounds they’ve actually heard. But just because this is a smaller turd than the source novel doesn’t make it any more appetizing of a meal. See if desperate