A Breed Apart

Needless to say that I had of course never heard about this 2025 movie titled "A Breed Apart" prior to getting the chance to sit down and watch it.

The movie's cover, however, just permeates with low budget vibes, so I can't claim that I harbored great expectations to the movie. And any movie that is written, directed and starring the same person is usually not great. But I still opted to give the movie the benefit of the doubt.

"A Breed Apart" was apparently inspired by "The Breed" from 2006. So that counted for something I suppose.

The writers put together a pretty straight forward script. And the narrative was actually not bad, but the insanely poor CGI ruined the movie, hands down.

The acting performances in the movie were actually fair.

The CGI animated dogs in the movie were hilarious to look at. They were so insanely poor animated and rendered that it was unfathomable. I am flabbergasted at how something that atrocious can manage to pass quality control in 2025. Didn't anyone in the CGI or editing department stop up and go "wait a minute, this looks terrible"? It just was difficult to look past the God awful CGI in the movie, especially since the dogs played such a crucial part in the narrative. And the dog that was able to crawl a rope? Well, that was just epic.

I managed to sit through the movie in its entirety, but believe me this is not a movie that will ever grace my screen a second time.

My rating of "A Breed Apart" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

What was the budget of the movie?! How many steaks, pizzas, bread, or feeding the poor, malnourished people all over the world would that help. Studios funding those craps should be simply annihilated.

As for the movie if that could be called a movie, besides some funny acting, beautiful ever young faces like Virginia Gardner and a powerfully sad Hayden Panettiere who had far better days with 'Heroes' there's nothing more to root for besides some stupid dogs and humans, there were some realistic moments, uncanny chases (for jokes of course) and even a shark!

They need to combine this with Jurassic World and make a series of it, rabid dogs, flying dragons and T-Rex what a joyful combo that would make.

• Screenplay/storyline/plots: 2
• Production value/impact: 3
• Development: 4.5
• Realism: 2
• Entertainment: 2.5
• Acting: 4
• Filming/photography/cinematography: 5
• VFX: 4.5
• Music/score/sound: 4.5
• Depth: 2
• Logic: 1
• Flow: 2.5
• Drama/horror/action/tragedy: 2
• Ending: 1.5.

I think three stars is a little to much for this movie.. Oh my God, the acting is so dull, the CGI.. wow, I have no words to describe how bad is it.. like in a tv series with very low budget form the '90's... We're evolving, but backwards... I don't like to give bad reviews, but I can say something good about this movie... just maybe the idea is ok, but the way it show on the screen is so bad.. I don't know what I can say more, just don't waste your time on this... I'm the first one who give a rating and a review, I will come back after a while, i'm curious what rating this movie will get after a few weeks.

First couple minutes, when they were just introducing the influencers, actually felt like this could be something fun. But after that... boy oh boy.

The dialogues are straight-up stupid. Most of the time I couldn't even tell if there was a joke, like was I supposed to laugh? Is this supposed to be a parody?

The CGI... I swear they used some random Chinese AI to generate it and they've got the absolute awful eye hurting result and were like "Yep, perfect. Ship it!" No second tries, no shame. Just pure visual pain.

I've seen a lotta low budget action flicks, but this one takes the crown for absolute laziness.

The biggest mystery? How the hell they got Hayden, Ginny, or Grace to be part of this? All three of them are thousands of miles above this dumpster fire.

And it pains me to say because most of the actors in this movie I have really enjoyed, and I'm sure, will enjoy, in many other projects. Even knowing actors in this industry are going through a really rough time right now, I cannot figure out how they ended up in this, at BEST, Saturday night SyFy channel, "The Asylum Presents"-level movie. (Edit: I've just learned those are the EXACT type of movies these directors have done previously so no wonder.)

The acting is fine enough. But the writing-holy hell, so many missed opportunities to have some unique kills or do something interesting with the "disease" the dogs had beyond having one...climb a rope. That's not even the worst part though. It's, you guessed it, the use of AI.

This movie has the worst special effects I've seen in 15 years or so. And it's because they decided to use what looks like the free version of an iPhone AI app to generate a good 99 percent of what the main focus of this movie is...the dogs. From the very beginning, the AI generated dogs take you out of it, killing all tension of the scene. And with that, we're already seeing how AI will help kill jobs and creativity. No visual effects artists were employed here. Some terrible prompt-created mess which was just pasted in throughout the movie. And no doubt the tech will get better in the future but think about how much energy must've been used to create the slop in this movie, then think about how much it will take when it's Marvel-level ready. It's the beginning of the end folks.

Anyway, I'm giving this two stars because it did keep me engaged, but just because I could not stop taking in how truly, truly awful it was.