That was an excellent one.

best movie i've ever seen.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

This movie is just another example of why you can not make a slasher film with only a PG-13 rating. The acting was bad in this and it wa very predictable despite taking a new turn to the slasher movie. Thats the only reason I give it a four.This movie is about a group of friends who plays a joke and creates a serial killer using the internet. They post fake murders but after a while these murders actually start happening meaning someone is taking the hoax seriously.This movie is terrible besides the somewhat new twist they put on the slasher idea. The acting is bad and the situations totally unrealistic due to the PG-13 rating. There is not even any decent kills or gore because of the low rating.

The story behind the making of "Cry_Wolf" is more interesting than the movie itself, as co- writer / director Jeff Wadlow had been the winner in a 2002 contest, the Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival, which allowed him a budget of $1M to make the film of his choice. He would have done better to film someone else's script as his is too smug and pleased with its own supposed cleverness. Even in uncut form, it's far too tame for fans of more hardcore horror, and is much too routine and dull to work overall. It really all falls to pieces in its final third; at least until then it's watchable enough, although none of the characters are much worth rooting for; Julian Morris as our lead character Owen plays the most principled and likable of the bunch. The story revolves around a bunch of idle rich kids who play a "game" of telling lies, and one of them, named "Dodger" (the irresistibly cute Lindy Booth), gets it into her head for them to escalate the game, spreading a rumour on their private school campus that the person who shot a coed to death is an actual serial killer on the loose, and they don't skimp on the details. The trouble arises when - as if we're not told this early on - this little clique itself starts falling victim to the killer. This just all feels very generic, and unless you're very undiscerning in your tastes, it's hard to imagine getting much out of it. It eventually proves to be disappointing, even with its multiple endings and multiple revelations. The cast, too, is either nondescript or stuck in clichéd roles. Fortunately, Morris's likability does help a fair deal; also appearing are Jared Padalecki of 'Supernatural', rock star Jon Bon Jovi who's hilariously, badly cast as a journalism professor, and Gary Cole who does a slight but still amusingly dodgy accent playing Morris's dad. The movie *is* slickly made, with stylish visuals and scene transitions, but this element doesn't inject much life into the proceedings. Perhaps the tell tale sign of how this works is the use of a Scooby-Doo related joke. And this wolf ultimately ends with more of a whimper than a howl. Too bad. Five out of 10.

For those of you who only read the first line - WATCH THIS MOVIE if you haven't yet.Just as the game in the story is all about deception, manipulation and off-throwing - so is the movie! It starts off just like any other teen-horror film. All the indicators are present. Small esoteric isolated town, typical gang of friends, even some minorities (not to be racist or anything, that's just the way it is), a nerd, a jerk, and even a Prom Queen-New Guy affair to top off the clichés. What could go right, huh?The dialogs unfortunately appeared to to be out-of-character and really hurt my suspension of disbelief. The high level vocabulary (while always a nice surprise in such films) should not have been used by the "idiot"/"jerk" of the gang...Then, suddenly - the audience who have been expecting nothing more than another mediocre McDonalds apple pie, get a gourmet chocolate soufflé. It begins with the brilliant shooting (i.e. enactments of the scenes described by the dialogs, the Email being written as the information in it is verbalized, etc.) While not all that original, I think the director has managed to renovate and upgrade the technique.However, the absolute best part (and the main reason I've given this film 9/10) is the game. As corny as it might sound - while the kids are playing their pranks on each other, the real prank victims are us. At first, like 27 minutes into the film, I snapped my fingers and "called" who the killer was. "I have too long a history of whodunits", I said to myself, "this has been a disappointingly easy guess". Was I ever wrong... Towards the end - so many twists, changes, confusions, half truths and lies... I dare you to guess the ending halfway through! If at first we were accomplices to the gang's pranks, by the end we were taken out of the picture completely, just like the actual victims.It's not the sort of film like Saw IV where you have to rewind and re- watch in order to understand what happened. By the end of "Cry_Wolf", all questions are asked, and answered.Genius story! A little more work on the dialog and the acting of some of the teenagers, and I'd have given it 10/10. Like I've said at the beginning - WATCH this film. The BEST teen-horror/twist film I've ever seen! The genre has obviously come a long way since Scream & I Know What You Did Last Summer.

Of course, the title of this review will only make sense to those familiar with the pop song of the same name by Norwegian popsters A-ha. The cheesy song, warbled with gusto by the angular faced Morten Harket, is considerably better than the film of the same name. In fact, running the tune on a continuous loop for 94 minutes is far more appealing than ever having to sit through this movie again.Directed by Jeff Wadlow, who used the money he won at the 2002 Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival to fund the project, film has a smart premise and big ambitions. Unfortunately the premise, kids at posh prep school play a lying game and invent a serial killer-who surprise to surprise comes real, is not exploited to any level of decent entertainment, horror, thriller or otherwise. It's badly acted by Julian Morris (amusingly over emphasising his English accent like he is auditioning for Twelfth Night), Jared Padalecki (who acted better when ensconced in wax in House of Wax also released this same year) and Jon Bon Jovi (out acted by his hair), while its surprisingly short on frights; or blood for that matter. Clearly trying to craft a thinking mans slasher, Wadlow instead gets confused and winds up with a standard film of red herrings and annoying by the numbers privileged teenagers. The script is a garbled mess, stretching credibility to unacceptable levels, and even when it gets into a groove of "complex" speak, it comes out as false. The one shining light is Lindy Booth, who positively sauces her way thru the movie, making a standard horror female character far better than it is on the page. But alas, she can't drag the others with her, hamstrung by a rookie director out of his league. The subsequent non film career of all involved speaks volumes. 2/10