Review of Skinwalkers (2006) by Ronny S — 04 Jul 2008

I enjoy a good werewolf movie as much as the next guy... I enjoyed watching the low budget but effective portrayal of the werewolf by Jack Nicholson in 'Wolf' and I really had fun watching the more flashier CGI werewolves in 'Underworld'.

So as I was preparing to watch Skin walkers I expected it to at least be somewhere in between...it started off well enough as they set the stage showing the 2 factions in the werewolf world and the current conflict they are facing, the camera work is deccent (Though they use slow motion in some wierd instances) and the score is negligible but ok.

As for the story the plot has more holes than swiss cheese and the acting is atrocious (everyone cries in this movie...a lot), they failed completely to draw me into the characters and their story and the ending felt like a cop out to me.

Plus no matter how I cut it I cannot bring myself to like the wide eyed little cry baby twerp portraying the 'saviour' of the 'good' werewolves, I mean the kid never listens to anyone and is always putting himself in danger, even after most of the good guys have given their lives to protect him.

not good when youre the sole saviour of werewolfkind. As for the make-up I cant really bitch about that as noone really knows what a werewolf would look like, but I must say I wasnt impressed, in this day and age I expected more.

.. side note: there was a scene about 30 minutes into the movie where there is a massive shootout in this weirdly deserted town.. and it appears that the good guys are the crappiest shots ever! they didnt even wound a single bad guy even though they were about the same numbers (i think they might even have outnumbered them).

but I must say I was particularly amused (laughing my ass off), when the granny pulled out not one, but two handguns and went all John Woo on the bad guys (naturally she missed all the shots and was killed.

.. just as she was about to wolf out) , it definitely was a high point in this very dodgy werewolf movie... which goes to show just how crappy the movie is... watch once if you must...