Urban Explorer is a pretty standard genre flick that doesn't really break any new ground, especially for films within the particular theme of outsiders mixing it up with locals. It's just a shame that the gore and deaths are really the only thing worth noting in this otherwise standard horror yarn. There are some pretty violent deaths in the pic, which was something I wasn't expecting at all, and was a welcomed aspect. One thing that does stand out is the surprisingly decent amount of gore. The film basically goes through all the typical scenarios we've seen time and again, leading to a fairly predictable climax.
For instance, who in their right mind would willingly accept food from a guy clearly living in the sewers? Seriously? What do you expect to be eating!? That's just one of many logical holes encountered throughout the movie. The characters are underdeveloped and (for the most part) unlikable, especially with many of the idiotic decisions they make. Around this point a border guard suddenly appears to offer aid to the remaining group, but it's not long before they realize that he has far more nefarious reasons for helping them.Īside from the setting, Urban Explorer really isn't anything we haven't already encountered in the genre. It's all fun and games until the guide takes a stumble, forcing the group to split up in order to find help. The story starts off pretty fast, as we follow a group of young adventurous 20-somethings from all walks of life meeting up with a local tour guide to take them into the bowels of the rarely explored Berlin undergrounds. Sadly, that comparison doesn't just end there, as everything else that normally comes with that particular theme is also given here, straight down to the dubious and potentially dangerous "locals". The film is basically like any other flick from the genre, where instead of people vacationing at a cabin or camping in the woods, their exploring the metropolitan undergrounds of Europe. It also gives the lead characters a great excuse to explore and seclude themselves in the alien environment. Urban Explorer is a film that I was interested in early on due to its theme of urban exploration, which is something I had always been mildly interested in.
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