The Green Inferno is director Eli Roth's homage to the Italian cannibal films of the 1980's and you have to give him credit for doing all he could to replicate the same look, tone and feel of those movies. As with Cannibal holocaust, The Green Inferno uses real native tribesmen as its actors and extras and was shot on location in the jungle, the only thing its missing from being a true 1980's cannibal movie is actual violence towards animals, but I for one am pretty glad that that's one element he decided to leave out.
The Green Inferno has been criticised for its ridiculous obnoxious and unlikeable characters who are supposed to be the protagonists, a criticism I don't understand as this is a trope of the most famous Italian cannibal movies Cannibal Holocaust and Cannibal Ferox. It's a very obvious homage to those films and therefore is not an issue.
In fact the entire film could be summed up as Cannibal Holocaust-lite, it essentially takes plot points and elements from both Holocaust and Ferox and presents them in a way that's more palatable for mainstream audiences.
Personally I think he achieved what he set out to do, the film is a good spiritual successor to the movies that defined the cannibal sub-genre.
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