Love in Wolf Creek

Bad acting. Stupid dialogue. Poor staging. Constant tense music.

I think there is a rule that in a romantic movie, the leads have to have a confrontation when they first meet. Check. But the scene was poorly done. There are only two vehicles in sight and lots of open spaces yet Austin's truck iso close the mirrors almost touch. The only way this happens is if the director has to set up a confrontation. Then those looks they exchanged. What was that? Were they supposed to be checking out the prospects?

The wolf hunt is bizarre (and again the tense music). More stupid dialog.

The sequences with spacey grandma are anything but charming. Bobby Daniels is totally unnatural in his role. Likewise Madeline Leon. Nola Martin overplays her claustrophobia.

There's a cardboard villain. So he stands around and describes his crime to two witnesses. Seriously? The whole sequence is ridiculous.

I think I've given enough examples, but there are plenty more. This movie isn't poor in just one or two aspects, but all the way through in almost every way.

If you like animals, there are lots and many of the scenes with them are cute. So add a star for that.

If this movie lasted an hour, I may have been able to give it a much higher rating. But it was beyond slow, and so extremely predictable. And I'm not just talking about the love story. Hallmark and Up movies always have predictable stories, where you know that the two main characters are going to fall in love, but that isn't what bothers me about this film. Because it dragged so extremely slowly, without much happening, and the characters were so black and white in there good and evilness, it was clear within the first 15 minutes how the whole thing would play out.

And actually, I only watched the entire movie, because the theme was one that was important to me - caring for animals. I work at a domestic animal sanctuary, so I was really hoping for some warmth and may be more of a complex storyline. It made me sad that they could've done so much more here to bring awareness to the need for animal rights and care.

I watched Christmas in Wolf Creek and it was one of the worst. But then found that there was an earlier movie that it followed from so maybe I should have seen it first which would give some clarity to the second. Wrong. Watching this one does not help the second one. I think it is the female lead, Nola Martin, she is just terrible. Both the story character and the actress. Tim Rozen tries, but a losing battle to improve the movie with Nola and the script working against him. What I cannot understand is the writer Kimmel is the same for Christmas in the Wild and Christmas on 5th Avenue and those are both excellent movies. Again, the female leads were Kaitlyn Leeb and. Kathryn Davis, excellent actors, good female characters with strength and common sense. Maybe you might want to have this movie on for background noise but definitely don't go out of your way to watch unless you like Tim Rozen.

Sweet little story filmed in Creemore, Mulmur, Orillia, Ravenna Ontario. Canada. The story line was good but very predictable. Kind of in the lines of a Hallmark story. The filming is beautifully gone. The outside shots are extremely beautiful. Do not really want to give the storyline away. I would rate this ok for a family movie. No foul language which was nice. There is some gun play and fist fight but was necessary for the story. Happy ending is the only thing I will give away. The wolf is gorgeous and I loved how the story was about him, obviously a bit of a love story thrown in hence my hallmark reference.

5.9 stars.

A few parts of the story are fine, such as the lead male, he's a good role model for young men everywhere. He is the quintessential cowboy who does some moonlighting, so to speak, in this film. He is a rancher first and foremost, but he happens to get caught up in a game of cat and mouse with this pretty game reservist woman. They are hunting an injured wolf, and in the meantime being hunted by a poacher who wishes to bag the wolf and leave them dead on the trail. It sounds like a great adventure, full of action, adventure, hunting, shooting, chasing...but this is far from an entertaining tale. I feel there is something major missing, and I'm not quite sure what, but maybe a little of everything. The music seemed okay, the scenic shots were breathtaking. Maybe it's the dialogue, timing, acting, lack of charisma, who knows. It's just too cheesy and ill timed and just not good.