hyped garbage

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

This movie is hardly the worst movie ever made, but it does have quite a few things that can be improved in it. The love story angle is also way too emphasized, to extent that it tries to overpower even the action sequences at some points in the movie. It tries too hard to be a Twilight clone with only werewolves, rather than taking a risk and standing on its own with its own narrative and story arc. The sequences that feature the werewolves going on a rampage also seemed forced, and it hardly felt as if it was connected to the rest of the storyline (as if added as an afterthought). Characters are also trying too hard to explain every single aspect in far too great detail, like Gecko's explanation of his Venom Strike technique. Giving it a name and brief description would have more than adequate. There is also a werewolf hunter, but she is the daughter of a person who was scratched by a werewolf, yet isn't a werewolf herself?The CGI was a bit basic, but there were quite a few sequences that do carry merit, like the big werewolf sneaking up from behind the smaller cop (in typical ninja mode), or the wolf approaching the fairgrounds, that in my opinion were the better visual parts of the movie, or the sensory overload in the classroom of one of the main characters in the story. I do believe that if the movie had more such elements in it, the critics would have had a lot less to complain about. The music felt slightly out of touch with what what going on in the movie itself, as if there was an effort to let the music carry some of the burden of making the movie better, even when there was already issues like the CGI and the acting that should have been addressed right at the start of the movie. If felt as if the acting was either deliberately muted or that there was a lack of depth within the acting itself, which is strange in itself as you had Eric Roberts in this movie as well. With that being said, I do believe the movie still has promise in its sequel(s)? There is a role reversal, with the woman being the apex predator, and the guy being "the damsel in distress", or at the very least a guy that hardly knows what he is letting himself in for. There are some interesting elements that other werewolf movies haven't explored to any extent yet, like the dream world, the powers that some werewolves have, superhuman speed, X-ray type of vision and supernatural hearing of the werewolves (hearing a butterfly in the woods). I would love to see some further elaboration of the different types of werewolves as well, as it seems the main villains seems to come from different werewolf packs/tribes. This movie reminds me a lot of the World of Darkness' Garou franchise, more so than other werewolf movies. I am cautiously awaiting part 2 of this movie series, considering the plot twist during the last 10 minutes of the original movie's open ending. I am giving this movie an average score, because I believe that the storyline, CGI and acting can be improved in sequel(s), and due to its obvious potential, it can still be a great movie series.

As I am writing this review the movie's score is 5.7. This is why I felt morally obliged to create an IMDb account even though I have been using the database without one for the past 15 years.5.7 is downright unfair for other movies of the same rating. It is just a bad movie from all perspectives, be it acting, script, soundtrack, photography, CGI, you name it.The problem is NOT the small budget. I've watched low budget b-movies delivering such an artful cinematic experience that puts their a-list blockbuster cousins to shame. The problem is NEVER the small budget.In this case, (as in most cases of b-movie crappiness), the problem is the lack of vision and the lack of effort. Some actors tried the best they could (thus the 3/10), but even the best of captains cannot steer a ship without sails.Don't waste your time folks.

The film had promise what with the suspiciously high score on IMDb. Unfortunately anyone giving this abysmal film a high score obviously works for the production company which is borne out by the similar vocabulary and content of the early reviews. What can I say about this awful movie that other's haven't said already. It has terrible CGI that may have been just acceptable on a PC game 20 years ago. The rendering software they used must have come from a cover disk freebie from the 90's such was the basic and unprofessional finish of the 'creatures' and the awful way they tried to move. At one point I laughed such was the poor execution of the CGI as an overlay. It was God awful and absolutely amateurish. The dialogue is trite,contrived,melodramatic and downright hokey. There were protracted and unnecessary monologues as if they were thinking this was a Shakespearean play. Also pointless internal monologues that had absolutely nothing to do with the progression of the film. I was absolutely confused with the choppy and nonsensical scenes as whoever edited this looked like they cut massive chunks out for each scene so the following one never made sense. It went from night to day,location to location and seemed to look like you've missed an important plot line such was the lack of fluidity or sense. To be honest this movie was all over the place and was terribly put together. The director obviously thought they were trying to be arty and clever when in fact they made a complete hash of it. What would have been a low end and barely passable movie ended up looking like a high school project. Please give this terrible film a miss. I watched it so you didn't have to!

I got a hold of a copy of this movie based solely on how bad the reviews were. I thought to myself that it must be impossible for a movie to truly be that bad. This movie was that bad. One hour, twenty five minutes and 34 seconds.****may include spoilers**** so the movie starts with scenes that almost to black to make out anything that is happening. Partial face, blurry movement, filmed at night. I honestly have no clue what is going on at the beginning. Just random "werewolf" sounds. ends up with two women......and a man somewhere in the darkness who is reading his lines.....VERY SLOWLY. We were laughing.....but it is not comedy....it really is that bad. The whisper growl man was ridiculous. The scenes seem to be randomly put together. I have to agree that this may be one of the worst movies I have ever seen....and I have watched some of horrendous Lorenzo lamas films....try and make it through UNSEEN EVIL 2 (alien 3000) without breaking a rib laughing at the helicopter scenes (lorenzo standing in obvious cardboard box with some person making helicopter sounds)....anyway.....random scenes, horrible music, idiotic script that is nonsense, actors or random people off the street interacting with each other..I could not tell. Shaky, out of focus, garbage camera work. This is easily in the top 5 worse movies I have ever seen . the movie "ends" three times, in a row. Then cuts to a scene that is out of focus with horrible cgi to finish it off. No idea what the point of this film was.