A Breed Apart

It's obviously down to the individual but this _could_ fall into that camp for you. The part on the cell tower made me laugh for instance, it's _so_ terrible in both conception and implementation that I just can't believe the film makers didn't know what they were making. It _must_ be deliberate, surely ? Maybe even a satire on AI slop ?

Don't get me wrong, no one should waste their time watching this in my view but _in case_ there's more intent behind its across the board stupidity and terrible craftsmanship than may appear and because IF you watch it with friends in the altered mental state of your choice it almost certainly _will_ provide some amusement, albeit entirely _at_ rather than _with_ the movie, I give it 3 stars.

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.

The visual fx studio on this one should be embarassed. Sure the writing was terrible, and the acting was bad, but it wasn't until i saw the digital fx, that truly hated this movie.

Couldn't finish it. Gt 20 minutes in, and there was just something about the fake dogs. Sure they were composited terribly, but there was this weird feel to them, and all the fx that i couldn't put my finger on. Then it hit me. Why everything was so swimmy, and visual inconsistent. It's all just AI 'art'. Lazy garbage.

Anyone involved in the production of this giant turd should leave film production, and never look back.

After getting us bored with the cheesy n cheap movies like sharknados, 2 n 3 headed sharks, mega sharks, mega python, giant octopus, bermuda tentacles, mega piranhas, crocosaurus, meth gator, etc we r treated with a much worse movie.

This movie is worse than Syfy original films n Asylum films.

It tries hard but it is clearly made on a B-budget.

The animatronics and CGI dogs r lol.

The movie has too many issues, most notably with the budget and the effects. The CGI is extremely 90s video games quality.

The Pack 1977 did it much better decades ago.

Hayden Panettiere has about a two-minute cameo in the opening, and then we don't see her again until much later and that end scene of her arriving to save the day was so much predictable.

She has gained so much weight that she is wearing loose cargo pants n shirts.

She was much slimmer n hot in Scream 4.

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.