Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.
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View Morean ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.
View MoreIt is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
View MoreThe epitome of a Vancouver sci-fi production featuring a slate of actors who in some cases appeared in all 3 of the above noted shows.I guess once you act in a syfy show, you are forever doomed to appear in lower caliber syfy movies of the week, but at leaat you know every now and then you can collect a paycheck that covers the bills for a few months for your 20 days work on the movie.Its pretty funny to watch a bunch of actors who are all pushing, if not over 40, trying to act like a bunch of careless 20 something rebels... the opening scene was particularly testing but thankfully that act dropped 15 minutes into the movie (which was 15 minutes to long but beggars cannot be choosers).Danica is very intent on proving to the world that you can be a hot brainy almost 40 something woman who also sort of acts, and she wears the bustier/corset in this movie to prove it, but I for one am not complaining! You just have to ignore the look of pain when she occasionally turned and it squeezed the breath out of her while simultaneously pushing forward her attributes....Sadly we saw not a hint of anything else, and the lovely Rekha Sharma did not get any opportunity to display her equally attractive charms.Its not hard to guess how this movie will progress - its a timeworn (and well worn) plot to have all the characters drop off one by one until only one fair lass and knight remain, who shall of course end up forever entwined.It certainly was not the worst timewaster - I have endured much, much worse from syfy, and if you are seeking a 90 minute mindless popcorn movie when you need to kill some time, you may survive the experience better then its participants!
View MoreThis movie had some good points:Good gore, Reasonably entertaining idea, Mostly good acting, Good casting of known actors.That being said, the acting was pretty bad even from the actors who've done better acting. Namely Roger Cross' acting in this was overblown and terrible...Mike Dopud and Kenneth Mitchell were the standouts in this film. Terry Chen and Rekha Sharma were decent in the roles they were given.I've seen better acting from Danica McKellar in other movies, and she was mostly good in this but had some moments of badly delivered dialog. But, on the plus sign she spent the latter half of the movie in a white t-shirt.The one-off Aussie actors were terrible.All in all, if you like the actors in this movie and want to waste two hours you'll never get back on a Bad B-Movie then give this one ONE viewing ONLY. You'll regret if you revisit it a second time, probably.
View MoreI honestly don't know why I keep taking chances on movies made for the SyFy network. Well, sometimes I am in the mood for low budget horror, but I've seen plenty of low budget horror movies that were a lot more engaging than "Tasmanian Devils". The fact this was a Canadian production just makes things worse, not limited to the fact that they try to pass off the British Columbian wilderness as the wilderness found in Tasmania. Even though I've never been to Tasmania, I know the backdrop of the movie was just plain WRONG. I might have been able to excuse that had the rest of the movie been engaging, but it isn't. The story and characters you have seen in plenty of other movies before, and you'll be able to predict much of what happens before it does. The idea of (mutant) Tasmanian devils being the monster did have promise, but they are rendered by very unsatisfying CGI. In short, the only audience that there could be for this movie would be for people who have never seen another movie in their life, so they wouldn't be able to compare it to other (and better) movies.
View MoreOkay. Soo I'm watching and somewhat enjoying the flick till the part where they're stranded and they have to call the base for help. Naturally in a National State Park things could go wrong, to say the least, and you occasionally have to call for help. That's why we have Rangers. The Rangers are there to save the day. But who saves the Rangers? Well, these Rangers in particular. They have radio(s) and they work just fine. But of course no one is gonna BE at the base for help. Why? Because duh, THEY'RE ALL THERE. It's a "State Park" for chimps sake! Why would all three personnel on the WHOLE mountain/park go out on a call together and leave the place unmanned? Aye chihuahua! Hey, I am aware they needed high action drama...but thats plain ...stoopid. It's a helluva plot (sink) hole that just annoyed me to the point that I just had to tell SOMEBODY! So here I am.
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