Boring

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

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.

Not that bad a movie. You have the descendants of the original Red Riding Hood who are continuing the fight against werewolves. That is what killed her granny and she saw it happen. Granny manages to kill the werewolf with a silver knife and this starts the adventure. Coming home with her fiancée the current Red (the first born daughter in each generation) learns that the current crop of wolfies have broken the truce that has been in place. They were suppose to lock themselves up during the full moon and stay with in certain boundaries. Also there is Gabriel, a werewolf who has learned to change at will. He then teaches others to do the same. So the fiancée gets bit by Gabriel but is undiscovered until the next full moon. So they cage him. The family now goes on a wipe them out hunt. This ends in both the brothers killed and granma too. Red is the last but she manages to kill seemingly every one of the wolfies including Gabriel. This includes her fiancée who has apparently killed granma when he broke out of the cage. Now Red has been bitten I guess but she is shown at the very end of the film reading to her daughter about their heritage. If she was bitten what happened? How did she have a kid? Hoping for a sequel?

"Red: Werewolf Hunter" (2010) Stars Felicia Day as a modern descendant of Little Red Riding Hood, who brings her fiancé home to meet her family. It turns out that they're all very unique hunters and, before too long, Red is trying to protect her fiancé from her family!Although this is a Syfy film, I found it entertaining enough and entertainment is the name of the game. The characters & locations are good and effects are decent; the story keeps your attention, and Felicia looks really good in tight jeans.The film runs 88 minutes and was shot in the Toronto area.GRADE: B-

I usually don't watch SiFi, but I will in the future. And I really would love to see a sequel. A great story and that head werewolf- Gabriel- put on a superb performance. Really thought the special effects were better than the usual MOW as well. Can't say enough good about it all round for its genre. The lead actress was a great blend of interesting, feminine woman and tough as nails on the flip side. The two brothers didn't look much a like but were otherwise casted well. I am looking at IMDb and Chesler/ Perlmutter has a few more that will be coming out soon, Blood of Pegasus (3-2011), Sata Suit (12-2-10) and The town that Christmas Forgot (11-25-10) are all on my watch to watch list. Anxious to see more quality MOW in my future.