This is a pretty atrocious movie. Standard SciFi (SyFy?) Channel garbage, as another reviewer has already pointed out.
However, I live with an African raven, who's pretty much taken over my house. As a result, this is one of our favorite films, despite its being largely unwatchable.
The human cast is wooden and predictable, the writing is crap, but the movie does benefit from a minimal use of CGI. I rented this movie expecting to see an avian version of Snakes On A Plane - not a single real animal on screen, just bad CGI facsimiles. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the majority of the scenes used real birds. The best part of the DVD, I thought, was a "behind the scenes" feature on the film's Czech raven-trainers and their birds.
If you don't share your house with a corvid, you probably won't have much patience with this movie, but if you like you crows or ravens you might consider renting this just for the featurette on trained ravens and their wranglers...
However, I live with an African raven, who's pretty much taken over my house. As a result, this is one of our favorite films, despite its being largely unwatchable.
The human cast is wooden and predictable, the writing is crap, but the movie does benefit from a minimal use of CGI. I rented this movie expecting to see an avian version of Snakes On A Plane - not a single real animal on screen, just bad CGI facsimiles. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the majority of the scenes used real birds. The best part of the DVD, I thought, was a "behind the scenes" feature on the film's Czech raven-trainers and their birds.
If you don't share your house with a corvid, you probably won't have much patience with this movie, but if you like you crows or ravens you might consider renting this just for the featurette on trained ravens and their wranglers...