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A cast that tries its best despite what has to be the weakest script in creation. Some dodgy CGI. Unfortunately the leading actress does not convince, Felicia Day's expression basically remains exactly the same throughout, and her chemistry with her fiancé is almost non-existent.The pluses, the villain is excellent, sinister and menacing enough without being too hammy, and the premise, it's a good one. That was the most frustrating part of the film, the potential to be good, if strictly B Movie hammy, was utterly wasted in the rather lacklustre direction and a script that kept running out of ideas. Even the action scenes lacked propulsion. The climactic fight was mostly anti-climactic, and with the conclusion to that fight being pretty much telegraphed before it began, using the great circle method of ending a story (grandma dying whilst killing a werewolf kicks off the opening scenes child Red picks up a silver knife, ending the film with grandma dying is supposed to pack an emotional punch, because now Adult descendant Red has to decide what she is going to do about fiancé who killed grandma) only works if there have been enough emotional punches along the way to set up their final tragic encounter. There weren't. By this time you are actually rooting for the fiancé who was dragged into this mess by Red in the first place. She kills him. But she's been bitten. The final scene is clearly supposed to be a few years later and we see Red reading to a little girl on the couch. Presumably this is Red's little girl by dead fiancé, but when we last saw Red she was bitten, so she's a werewolf? At this point it was impossible to care. I love hammy creature features, but this didn't even slip into the 'so bad it's good' category.

As Georgia Lass once said, "interest begets expectation, and expectation begets disappointment, so the key to avoiding disappointment is to avoid interest. A equals B equals C equals A, or… whatever." And boy, should I have listened.

So I watched SyFy's (sic!) Tin Man and Alice and thought, "well, those were {more than} a bit good, so this might also be alright..."

WRONG. This... thing, for I dread to call it a film, is god (lower case 'g') bloody awful. It could've tried passing itself as a {bad} horror movie, it certainly had the body count for it (I can almost see some Whedon fan-boy (devoid, naturally, of anything resembling talent or imagination) writing this while drooling profusely), except it didn't. I'm not saying that EVERY movie should have blood and guts galore, but holy hell, THIS movie could've sure used some.

Which brings me to the characters. No, sorry, the only reason why anyone might care for a few seconds about any of them is "hey, look, it's deputy Andy" or "hey, well that's the rev from Haven." (Yes, I know that this was before Haven). Speaking of the rev, he may have looked okay on Haven (but that's down to not having enough screen-time to really make himself look inept and having guys like Eric Balfour to compete with (my grandma could do a better job and she's been in the ground for nearly twenty years now)), but he's absolutely bland.

And one final note to the writers: BACK-STORY. If you decide you want a werewolf that suddenly learns to wolf-out at will it might be useful to EXPLAIN just how that happened without resorting to motivational speeches seemingly written by a three year-old.. If you have dead parents/grandfather use them somehow to move the plot. If you have someone who can write... oh, never me mind, you don't.

But I digress, this was, after all, probably thought of by an airhead who was reading Pelevin while sitting on the bog. Ugh.

P.S. It's only suitable this thing was followed by Skinwalkers, a perfect night of the living brain-dead so to speak.

Warning, this may contain spoilers.

Much has been said already about the CGI (get over it, it's a budget SYFY movie) and the atrocious acting and monotonous delivery already, so I won't expand on it.

Instead, I'll focus on these so-called experienced werewolf hunters, one of whom is supposedly also a top-notch FBI agent who "kicked the ass" of the best in the Academy.

Seriously, I've seen better combat skills from 17-year-olds at airsoft games.

There's nothing in the manner that any of the characters act that lends any credibility to the idea that they routinely hunt werewolves or (in the case of the two Feds in the story) even normal human fugitives.

Being a werewolf movie, Willing Suspension of Disbelief is required to accept the premise that werewolves are real for the sake of the movie.

That Willing Suspension of Disbelief should not have to extend to accepting that this pack of useless sods has somehow managed to survive multiple encounters with dangerous shape-shifting monsters, despite their obvious lack of any tactical or combat ability.

If you're going to portray hardened/seasoned combat veterans, at least watch a few videos of real soldiers in action if you don't want to spend money on a proper adviser.

The scene that finally consigned this to the scrap heap was when "Red" ran upstairs in the midst of the fight: A werewolf starts climbing into the room behind her, making enough noise to alert the most obtuse or inattentive person and yet this "kick-ass" Federal Agent and seasoned werewolf-hunter does not notice it.

And for dealing with attacking packs, you'd think - given silver bullets are specifically mentioned as effective and they use them in their pistols - that the heavy armaments on their house would be belt-fed machine-guns (you actually see Red grab an ammo belt at one stage but it's never used in anything) rather than single-shot spear-guns.

This is obviously something that must have had a half-life on the Sci-Fi channel and it shows. There are these breaks where they obviously were supposed to put in the commercials. No nudity or profanity and pretty toned down violence. Skiffy all the way.

So the plot is the descendants of Little Red all gather together at a house the same weekend the Werewolves decide to break the truce and start attacking people again.

So poor quality CGI abounds.

But I'll give the movie its props for some okay acting, tight story progression and a bad guy who looked like a real bad guy.

worth a rental? Only out of a Red Box.

I am not a fan of horror movies: the plots are usually captivating but I don't get thrills from watching zombies/murderers/werewolves jump out at me. However, that was not the issue here, the movie was far from anything scary, the werewolves looked comical if anything. The major issues were the plot, the characters, and the acting.

I'll admit, I only watched this movie because of Felicia Day, but had I known the plot ahead of time I would have never gotten myself into this mess. Low budget is little excuse for such a cheap plot (we could easily guess the whole Nathan plot line from the start). The characters were dull, all completely unchanging, talking in monotone (like someone said above). There was no action/plot/horror the first 50 minutes, they might as well have been cut out. In fact all that did was make us sick of the same setting/camera angles being used over and over again. No sense of humor, plot holes/irrational actions by the characters, the list could go on forever. The short fight scenes with Felicia were somewhat fun to watch but very choppy nonetheless.

Plot: 2/10. Characters: 3/10. Setting: 2/10. Acting: 3/10. Action: 4/10.

Red (Felicia Day) brings Nathan (Kavan Smith) home to meet her family. While there he gets bitten by a werewolf and puts a strain on their relationship as her family hunts werewolves. The film had a decent story line, unfortunately the execution was less than stellar. The dialog reeked and the special effects were 1980ish. The hunting scenes were not very powerful. If werewolves are people during the day, they could use guns for killing also...just a thought. The acting didn't come across as strong.

In one scene the werewolves have three people in shackles. The girl in the red sweater has on shackles so large around her wrist, she could easily slip her whole hand through them. What's the point? In order to kill a werewolf, its heart must be pierced with silver, although for some werewolves their heart is through their stomach.

Worth watching for free on TV, if nothing else is on.

Parental Guide: No f-bombs, sex, or nudity.

You can't compare B movies -- low budget, largely unheard-off actors, and simplistic scripts -- with mainstream movies. But as a grade B movie goes this one is pretty darn good. Way above the usual made-for- SyFy fare.

As someone else said, the dialog is weak and Felicia Day's delivery is just plain flat. She really isn't a strong enough actress to lead the cast. The evolution of the romantic angle was predictable but there were enough plot twists to hold my interest. The sets and lighting were pretty good; the filmmakers resisted the temptation to build artificial suspense by shooting everything in perpetual darkness.

Overall, a good fun B movie.

Killed a little slice of a pleasant Saturday afternoon watching this. I read the other reviews and decided to get the DVD for kicks. Not bad. Actually, considering some of the complete flops put out on SyFy this was amazingly good. There was no bad plot twist, nothing to make it out more than what it was: good guys vs. bad guys. The bad guys, led by Stephen McHattie, are a new breed of werewolf able to shift forms at will. They're sick of a long standing truce with a family of hunters and set out to change things, making the earth theirs to roam free once more. "Red" (a name of honor given to the first female hunter of each generation) brings home her new FBI fiancée to meet the fam and give him the lowdown on her particular family tree. And trouble ensues.

This is either a decent made-for-TV-movie, or as I thought watching it, a freakin' GREAT video game. And the CGI of the wolves made the second pretty easy to believe. I'll throw in there the last 60 seconds or so of this film were theatre worthy.

Like I said, fun for a bit on the weekend.