A Disappointing Continuation

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Or Daktari meets a kind of Bill Dieterle's ELEPHANT WALK with lions and tigers instead of our pachyderm friends as the heavies of the film. Or, if you prefer, a sort of home invasion film with wild beasts instead of humans. You could decline the elements of this scheme for hours with all kinds of beasts. This most dangerous movie ever shot is far from being a masterpiece, but it remains worth watching. Poor Melanie Griffith who already had to deal with BIRDS nearly twenty years earlier, now she has to face wild animals !!!!

Having seen this viceral masterpiece again after 35 years, when I was just a young nipper, it had quite the same amazing effect, as it did back then. No other movie, has touched me, the way this one has. Featuring a young Melanie Griffith who looks really hot in that black outfit, she's surrounded by a group of unknowns, although I knew Tippi Hendren, but I really didn't follow her, although I had seen The Harrad Experiment. The thing about this great film, which you can call many things, it's a family effort, and it pays off as one great exciting, thrilling, exciting, scary, amusing and beautifully though provoking film, especially as far an animal killing is concerned. The song/montage, that precedes the end credits, had me bordering on tears, where earlier when a couple of those lions were taking out by that bastard hunting duo, for me, when those hunters were killed, it was a grand revenge moment. The film as I remember was rated G, which I found enigmatic, considering the blood and violence spared, the hunter duo attack, especially. The story has the estranged father who lives, loves and has formed a deep bond with all his lions, where the way he talks and passionately communicates with his babies, in his racy overworked voice, is something unique, as is his character. As slipping his mind, about picking his family up, they visit his beautiful African hacienda paradise, only to be confronted by and subdued by the lions, aswarm, where these beautiful agile creatures steal the show. The film work done here, following them with dolly and tracking, and a lot of up, close and personal, but so intimate shots are wonderfully done, just watching these scene stealers again, was beautiful to the viewers eye. The soundtrack cassette I had from this, has great songs, the racy, "Wouldn't It Be Great" is my favorite though, and a none more perfect song to this opening of that grand film, "This Is My Land". Lion lover, Marshall in the lead provides some funny lines, like saying to one of the hunters, who's face is covered in blood "It's only a scatch". Marshall's character, too, sacrifices a couple of wounds and scrapes from his primal friends, who sometimes a bit rampant, and we see a few times, which I found a little unnerving, tigers going at each others. Roar can fall into a few categories. You don't know if you should be scared or not by these lovable, raging lions. It's like a getting to know someone message, and Roar certainly makes his stand on the relationship between beast and man. It actually hones out a few messages, but this is a one in an only movie experience, a remarkable film, you just can't watch once. If there's one film, they should bring back to the big Aussie screens, this would be it, though I wouldn't be happy with it being, remastered. Why tamper with excellence which this movie is. It's hypnotic, and unforgettable, and at the end, you'll feel completely drained, thanks to the lions, in one beautiful, touching ending.

What did I just watch? Adventure, horror, thriller? Well, it's all true. First they thought to make an adventure, but the script wasn't really working, most of the lion scenes were pure improvisation, and after it turned out to be a horror-thriller, not because you are afraid for the characters but for the actors themselves. I have never seen a movie where actors were so afraid but had to act as if they aren't. But you have to give them credit for the courage.Considering that the movie was mostly improvised mess, editing was done OK, still pretty bad by normal standards. They probably did a tone of b-tape, and it worked, seems a bit clunky, lots of added voices and sounds, lots of cutting in the middle of action, but still a decent job with material they had. Script is almost non existent, story is as simple as it gets: family came to visit their father, who lives with ferocious animals. And there is a side story, I don't know why they put that in the movie, it makes no sense and leads to nowhere, I guess it was because they wanted to involve characters from the beginning that had an awesome fight with the lions which was probably not even supposed to happen, but they kept on rolling (bandages on them throughout the movie are probably real). The most amazing scene was when the main actor comes running towards 4-5 lions and starts fighting them, they filmed that scene first, probably because if he got killed they could just say screw it we are canceling the production. You can tell that because even in the scenes before the fight the main character has a bandage on his hand that he hurt when fighting the lions.Most of the movie is characters running scared from the lions and lions run around in the surroundings lions normally aren't in. It is portrayed as something normal to live with a bunch of animals, but it's hard for audience to believe that because in just one day that tigers and lions lived in the house, they wrecked the bloody house to shreds. 4/10 just because the actors survived. What is next? "Hissss" an adventure in a beautiful eden with cobras.

Interesting if not particularly well-made "film" by Noel Marshall, starring him and his family, which includes wife Tippi Hedren and stepdaughter Melanie Griffith. The story, such as there is one, has Marshall running a wildlife preserve where he has dozens of big cats (lions, tigers, etc.). While he's away his estranged wife comes for a visit, bringing along their grown children. The wife and kids then proceed to run for their lives from the cats in one poorly-directed scene after another. It's a bizarre movie that seems to be advocating the naive idea that humans and predatory big cats can co-exist in peace and harmony, provided the humans don't mind the occasional mauling. Marshall comes across as insane throughout the film, which is really pretty dull when the cats aren't "playing" with people. It's of interest only for the production backstory and the fact that you have these animals roaming around doing as they please while stupid actors put themselves in harm's way for no good reason. The film has the notoriety of having over 70 of its cast and crew suffering injuries (although surprisingly no deaths). The movie also brags at the start that it was approved by the Humane Society and that no animals were harmed during the making of the production. Really? I must have imagined the lions fighting to the point of drawing blood. Watch this as a curiosity piece only and as a reminder that you should always be weary of zealots, no matter how well-intentioned they may seem.