this new update shares commonality with the franchise in name only, opting instead to create a tonally-confused road trip into the unpredictably bizarre
it doesn't always work and folks will surely locate a plothole or several, but there's no denying this franchise just took a major step in the right direction
Alan B. McElroy truly provides a new vision on his original story; "Wrong Turn" has some great performances, beautiful cinematography, and is capped by a memorable end credits sequence
"Wrong Turn" cannot find the narrative words to articulate its blurry themes of colonization, barbaric pasts, and cyclical futures beyond "bad people do bad things," which is too slight given the material's intended scope