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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Bad Dog, 7 Feb 2008
To be fair I wasnt expecting much from this film. Group of friends go out to a secluded island to party, then get attacked by wild dogs. Its hardly Wes Cravens greatest idea, and a setup thats probably been done hundreds of times.
The film does itself no favours when the dogs in most scenes dont look rabid or mutated in the slightest. Just normal dogs, with a bit of red around the mouth. It just seems very silly and far fetched. When its done with tongue in cheek it can work, but the Breed takes itself far too seriously for that.
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5 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Just Another Bad Horror Movie, 29 Jun 2007
In my review of 2005's "Red Eye" I stated that films bearing the name of Wes Craven in any respect vary massively in quality of content from the extremely good to the unbelievably bad. That specific film was one of the success stories of said films. As it happens there is usually no middle ground with Wes Craven's films. One of few exceptions so far as I'm personally concerned is 2005's "Cursed" which fell somewhere between given it's atmospheric tone but disappointing lack of gore. So what of 2007's "The Breed", the latest UK release to bear the sub-title: 'A Wes Craven Production'? Well, it's pretty bad to tell the truth.
Five college friends arrive on an supposedly desserted island for a weekend of partying, drinking and having fun. Unfortunately for them the island isn't nearly as desserted as they originally believe. When a cute little puppy emerges from the woods the group can't seem to get enough of it. However, the puppy's fellow resident dogs aren't quite so welcoming. When one of the group is bitten outside of the cabin things begin to go drastically wrong. They see a group of dogs tear a man apart in front of them and realise that the dogs want, pretty much, to eat them for dinner too. The dogs chew through the rope holding their plane ashore, causing it to drift off. And as the bloodthirsty dogs continue to attack the group must figure out how to get off of the island before they all become dog food.
Michelle Rodriguez has had an unfortunate career. She's very talented as an actress but too often finds herself in trashy, substandard movies such as this. Aside from TV series "Lost", she's found little luck with regards to acting roles. In "The Breed" she's the standout performer and easily superior to any of her co-stars. Also performing well is Harper Hill. The actor is immediately likeable for all his cockiness and arrogance. Its a shame that his character never gets beyond being the token black guy and thus finds his talents wasted long before he's also devoured. That's a shame, because he's probably the most likeable actor involved. Eric Lively was awful in 2007's "The Butterfly Effect 2" and he's definitely no better here. In "The Breed" Lively conveys all the emotions of a blank canvas. Taryn Manning is surprisingly poor as first to be bitten Sara. She doesn't do a suitable enough job portraying the confused, deteriorating character at all. Oliver Hudson talks in the same tone of voice throughout, no matter what situation he finds himself in -- but at least he's better than Lively.
"The Breed" isn't something that I'd refer to as awful, just pretty bad. The movie is very atmospheric throughout but the dog attacks are under-realised and too often result in nothing more than the enraged-by-default dogs jumping up walls or closed doors. Also poor is the way that the stalking of the humans is handled. It doesn't make sense that dogs as unstable as these would utilize such stealth as they do. Sure, they're not like any normal dogs. But the sneakiness of it all isn't all that believable and could have perhaps resulted in a better motion picture had the actions of the dogs been more consistent throughout -- the second half consists of the dogs going all-out crazy, in contrast.
Speaking of the dogs. Not enough has been done in "The Breed" to make the dogs look as scary as they probably should have been. Too clean and, in some cases, too beautiful to be particularly convincing as wild animals with an advantage, they could have been a bit messier and substantially sinister. Some will undoubtedly believe them to be too cute to achieve the scare-factor this film requires them to have.
"The Breed" is a substandard horror movie made with some substandard actors and substandard canine villains of the piece. Rodriguez and Hill can only bring so much quality to proceedings before the movie grows tiresome, even given it's reasonably trim running-time. Mismanaged and inconsistent, "The Breed" isn't going to set the world on fire.
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The breed, 26 Sep 2008
I thought I was buying a movie about Zombies. But It was Feral like dogs.
It is a really good movie and for anyone who slags the woofs, looks at the extra's on the DVD. Most will maybe appreciate the performance of the dogs and the human actors working together.
The Woofs did great job and so did the actors and staff.
The movie was great, OMG and what are they gonna do. I loved it and I would love to see a cat version. Some people don't like dogs, but many are scared of cats.
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