Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

For a thriller its really good. The plot is very good and could go into extensive detail but gently glosses over to the main bits. Which can give the viewers something to think about in werewolf lore. The sets are very well put together for a common thriller. The erotic scenes aren't too bad, the dance was kid of mesmerizing. Though the sounds are way over dramatized.The only thing I believe would have made this movie even better would have been the actors. Most appeared to be amateurs with such promise. Despite the faults I really enjoyed this movie. I'm a werewolf fan and this gave a different take on the typical werewolf movie.

A vicious werewolf (stuntman Rick McCallum in a nifty fur suit) stalks the streets of Los Angeles in search of sweet and unsuspecting part-time waitress Josie (a strong and sympathetic performance by the fetching Samaire Armstrong) so he can mate with her and bring about the end of mankind. It's up to determined, no-nonsense detective Steve Turley (well played Ryan Alosio) to protect Josie from this savage beast. Director Richard Friedman, working from a trashy and eventful script by Geoffrey Alan Holliday, keeps the pace hurtling along at a constant breakneck clip, wrings a good deal of pulse-pounding tension from the absorbing premise, and stages the plentiful action with considerable brio. Better still, Friedman delivers both a generous sprinkling of nasty gore and a pleasing abundance of tasty female nudity (a lesbian rooftop modeling session involving two gorgeous naked babes rates as the definite erotic highlight). This film further benefits from solid acting from an attractive and appealing cast: Armstrong and Alosio make for excellent and engaging leads, the ever-imposing Kane Hodder cuts a suitably intimidating figure as the human biker guy incarnation of the werewolf, Tippi Hedren has a nice, although small role as wise homeless woman Mary, plus there's fine supporting turns by Andrea Bogart as the sassy Stacey, Jaime Bergman as Turley's feisty partner McGowan, Alexis Cruz as prissy make-up artist Miguel, Aaron Van Wagner as Josie's jealous, insecure boyfriend Tom, Sasha Williams as luscious model Anna, and Beau Clark as hip punk photographer Wayne. The werewolf design is impressively fierce and fearsome. Stuart Asbjornsen's agile cinematography gives the movie a cool glossy look. Geoff Levin's throbbing score does the shuddery trick. Only the shoddy CGI effects fail to earn a passing grade. Overall, this flick sizes up as perfectly entertaining and undemanding Grade B junk.

I have certainly seen a lot of werewolves, but director Richard Friedman and writer Geoffrey Alan Holliday put together what I consider the best werewolf movie ever.You just knew that it was going to be a winner when the action started in a strip club. In walks biker Kane Hodder (Hatchet, 2001 Maniacs) with the cops on his tail. Amid all the breasts, he manages to get caught, but only for a short time. Locked securely in a steel police van, he transforms into the Hybrid Wolf and escapes, leaving two bodies in his wake - one completely unrecognizable as something human.The dead detective partner (Ryan Alosio) has a rookie with him (Jaime Bergman, Miss January 1999). She finds his job to be totally unbelievable, and becomes the wolf-man's next victim before we get to see her beauty to the fullest.At the same time, the Werewolf Protector, Tippi Hedren of The Birds fame, is also getting killed, but not before she clues the detective in that the waitress (Maxim Hot 100 Samaire Armstrong) is the mate the wolf-man is looking for. So, he takes Josie and becomes her protector.While they are hiding, the action gets hot and heavy at a local photographer's studio. Josie's boyfriend and friend Stacey (Andrea Bogart) arrive and the photographer decides to make up Stacey and Yellow Power Ranger, Sasha Craig as wolf-man models for a shoot on the roof. What we get for the next 10-15 minutes is one of the hottest shoots you can imagine. While we were denied in Greed/Axe, we get to see all of Bogart (she is a natural blond) and Craig as they put on a girl/girl show that steams the joint up. While this is going on Josie's boyfriend is trapped in the alley with the wolf-man. The switching from hot beauty to savage tearing and blood back and forth was an artistic treat.What's left after that? Well the wolf-man still wants mate and the chase is on into the LAPD headquarters where bodies are mangled and torn throughout as we reach the climax.Great effects as we watch Armstrong do a transformation into a wolf girl and back to human. This was Holliday's first story/screenplay. I wish he would do more.

Recap: Full moon. A creature, a huge werewolf, is on the hunt. Not for flesh, not for blood (not that it seem to mind to take a bite on the way though), but for a mate. He is on the hunt for a girl. Not any girl though. The Girl. The girl that is pure (and also a werewolf, although she doesn't know it yet). Three, well check that, two cops (after the first scene) and an old bag lady is all that can stop it, or even knows that the thing killing and eating a lot of folks around full moon is a werewolf. This particular powerful werewolf, Darkwolf, is closing in on the girl. If he gets her, mankind is doomed. Now the cops has to find the girl, convince her not only that there is someone, a werewolf nonetheless, that wants to rape her, and perhaps kill her, but that she is a werewolf herself. And then they got to stop him...Comments: This is one for the boys, the teenage boys. A lot of scenes with semi-nude girls more or less important for the plot. Mostly less. Well I guess you need something to fill some time because the plot is (expectedly) thin. And unfortunately there is little besides the girls to help the plot from breaking. One usually turns to two main themes. Nudity. Check. And then special effects. Hmm... Well there are some things that you might call effects. They're not very special though. In fact, to be blunt, they are very bad. The movie seems to be suffering of a lack of funds. They couldn't afford clothes for some of the girls ;), and the effects are cheap. Some of the transformations between werewolf and human form, obviously done by computer, are really bad. You might overlook such things. But the Darkwolf in itself is very crude too, and you never get to see any killings. Just some mutilated corpses afterwards. And there is surprisingly little blood about, in a movie that honestly should be drenched in blood.I'm not sure what to say about actors and characters. Most of the times they do well, but unfortunately there are lapses were the characters (or actors) just looses it. A few of these lapses could be connected with the problems mentioned above. Like the poor effects, or the poor budget(?). That could explain why there is precious little shooting, even if the characters are armed like a small army and the target is in plain sight (and not moving). But hey, when you're in real danger, there nothing that will save your life like a good one-liner...Unfortunately that can't explain moments when the Cop, Steve, the only one who knows how to maybe deal with the problem, the werewolf that is, runs away, when the only things he can be sure of, is that the werewolf is coming for the girl, who is just beside him now, and that he cannot let it have her. But sure, it let the makers stretch the ending a little more...But I wouldn't mind seeing none of the lead actors/actresses get another try in another movie.Well. To give a small conclusion: Not a movie that I recommend.3/10