Red: Werewolf Hunter (2010)

Expected more

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Blistering performances.

Not that bad a movie. You have the descendants of the original Red Riding Hood who are continuing the fight against werewolves. That is what killed her granny and she saw it happen. Granny manages to kill the werewolf with a silver knife and this starts the adventure. Coming home with her fiancée the current Red (the first born daughter in each generation) learns that the current crop of wolfies have broken the truce that has been in place. They were suppose to lock themselves up during the full moon and stay with in certain boundaries. Also there is Gabriel, a werewolf who has learned to change at will. He then teaches others to do the same. So the fiancée gets bit by Gabriel but is undiscovered until the next full moon. So they cage him. The family now goes on a wipe them out hunt. This ends in both the brothers killed and granma too. Red is the last but she manages to kill seemingly every one of the wolfies including Gabriel. This includes her fiancée who has apparently killed granma when he broke out of the cage. Now Red has been bitten I guess but she is shown at the very end of the film reading to her daughter about their heritage. If she was bitten what happened? How did she have a kid? Hoping for a sequel?

Nerd heartthrob Felicia Day stars as Red, a werewolf hunter who finds herself at odds with her werewolf hunting family when her fiancé turns in this ridiculous Syfy film that 'updates' the Little Red Rding Hood story.Cheap, needlessly melodramatic, and pretty much uninteresting all the way around. Even the normally entertaining Day is pretty bad here. Writers Angela Mancuso and Brook Durham would later further subject hapless Syfy viewers with another, somehow more atrocious, fairy tell updating with the awful "Witchslayer Gretl"My Grade: D

I am not a fan of horror movies: the plots are usually captivating but I don't get thrills from watching zombies/murderers/werewolves jump out at me. However, that was not the issue here, the movie was far from anything scary, the werewolves looked comical if anything. The major issues were the plot, the characters, and the acting.I'll admit, I only watched this movie because of Felicia Day, but had I known the plot ahead of time I would have never gotten myself into this mess. Low budget is little excuse for such a cheap plot (we could easily guess the whole Nathan plot line from the start). The characters were dull, all completely unchanging, talking in monotone (like someone said above). There was no action/plot/horror the first 50 minutes, they might as well have been cut out. In fact all that did was make us sick of the same setting/camera angles being used over and over again. No sense of humor, plot holes/irrational actions by the characters, the list could go on forever. The short fight scenes with Felicia were somewhat fun to watch but very choppy nonetheless.Plot: 2/10. Characters: 3/10. Setting: 2/10. Acting: 3/10. Action: 4/10.

As with Tin Man, this is better than one would expect for a made 4 TV SyFy channel movie. While the story is anything but original, it gives us a somewhat darker view of the Little Red Riding Hood story, along with a cohesive afterwards.Dialog delivery is a little stiff, but considering the source, I really enjoyed this, and cannot wait for it to come out on DVD/Blu-Ray, to watch it again and again. Honestly, Underworld, it ain't, but it does have a good story, some great innovatives, and a plausible delivery. It runs well, exhibits well, and follows through to a satisfactory ending.All in all we recommend this one for any werewolf fan. It is more than just your run of the mill formula.It gets an 8.2/10 on the M4TV scale from...the Fiend :.