This won lots of awards and has very good ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB, but it felt like a pointless splatterfest to me. A small isolated town in North Eastern Brazil is threatened by its corrupt mayor who cuts off the water, and then brings in a bunch of racist psycho murderers from the US and Europe to kill all the residents in some horrendous paid-for game.
It's tense, and for a while there's an air of mystery as we try to work out what's going on, but ultimately it's horrible and pointless. It's resolved with all the murderers getting blown away by the townsfolk who arm themselves with ancient firearms from the town's museum. Yeah, it's a metaphor for colonialism and stuff, but it's also two hours I won't get back.
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