It takes baby steps to the edge of the chasm instead of jumping into it, and if it it had, the movie could have been so much better.Įven the title promises more than the movie actually delivers. The movie never takes the story by the balls and tries to go for it. It should have been dark, gritty, and deeply disturbing with the gruesome subject matter that it promises. So again, yeah, We Are What We Are should have had it all. Meanwhile, two city police officers are hot on the family's trail.
After their patriarch dies suddenly, a poor family of cannibals try to figure out who will lead them in their rituals of kidnapping and eating people.