Fresh and Exciting

A lot of fun.

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Science fiction is one of my favorite genres in movies. Certainly when it makes you think that it could happen in the future. But with The Human Race you don't have that perspective. It just a thing you know it will never happen. Nothing wrong with that if the movie would be any good. And that's where the problem is, the movie is just nothing special. It is just boring to watch. You expect some kind of explanations about how and why all those people got there in the first place but after a while you know you won't get the answers. It could have been much better if they would not drag some scenes like the ones with the deaf people. It was a disappointment to watch. I won't watch this one a second time, that's for sure.

I caught this as a random from Film Flex and was pleasantly surprised.The characters are inexplicably sucked in to a race-to-the-death by some unknown power. Confronted with the race the contestants have the choice of banding together to defeat their captors or trying to win the race. What follows I found quite interesting.The main problem with this film is the back stories. They take up about the first twenty five minutes and I must admit I fast forwarded through a chunk of them.Once the race starts though it was all good. Acting is solid enough, effects passable and the story interesting. Inspired set location makes the production of the movie appear a light more expensive than it is.

It's by no means perfect, like just about every other film out there, but the overkill of 1 star reviews has lead me to contribute my good one as, quite frankly, it -really- is not a bad film at all.Horror is a very open term when it comes to film genre and it to me horror is anything that messes with your mind. There are scenes in this film where I had my hands on my face whilst watching and there were bits I was laughing my head off (...literally no pun intended there but my god that's good... I'll leave it in).Not sure how so many others were bored of the storyline... I was hooked right through to the very end, I feel like we were watching different films?The 2 (main) deaf characters really are awesome and for me were the most enjoyable characters to watch, not to mention brilliantly acted.There is a recurring theme of challenging our most common prejudices in society throughout the film, some unfortunately a little too unsubtle, but it does pain me to say they don't really lead to any good message or moral as far as I could tell. Really it's more of an observation on how we all are as societal groups.All in all not a perfect film and there are better but certainly good enough to get past the 5 mark.

Have you seen 'Scanners?' Did you like the bit when the head explodes? If you answered 'Yes' to that then you should definitely watch 'The Human Race.' It's a film primarily about people's heads exploding (occasionally interspersed with the odd pick-axe through someone's neck). However, what little 'story' there is when brains aren't flying towards the camera, concerns a seemingly random group of people who get spirited away from their everyday lives, only to find themselves part of a twisted and lethal game where they have to race each other... or their heads explode.Think 'Battle Royale' or 'The Cube.' It's kind of like that (only with more exploding heads).And, believe it or not, it's actually quite good. Yes, there isn't much of a budget; what little money went into making this film was primarily spent on blood flying from holes in people's necks. Naturally, they couldn't afford and big names either, but it's still quite a fun little sci-fi/survival-horror film to watch. Any negative criticism that it seems to have attracted centres around a 'lack of story.' Yes, there's not much of a story, but there was there much of a story in Battle Royale? There's only so much of a story you can build around eighty people who have to force each other's head to explode in order to survive.If you like your films short, sweet and filled with decapitated bodies, then give this one a go.And remember... keep off the grass.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/