FrankenScript :: Lee Gabel's Screenwriting Journal/Blog

This laughably bad film doesn’t deserve your time. The effects are bad. To see a raven in the dark, they made them light grey. Good thinking. The story revolves around people being attacked by ravens. That in itself isn’t bad, as you can see in Hitchcock’s “The Birds”. What makes this film bad is you [...]

One star, and that’s being generous. This film has plot holes big enough to drive a truck through (or a flimsy prop porche… you’ll know what I mean). For someone who has just received a serious death threat, Pacino’s character sure doesn’t seem to care, or do anything that would show his character has a [...]

Take one group of the dumbest National Guardsmen known to man. Add to that poor marksmanship. Top it with a frothy mix of intelligent and battle-wary mutants and you get 90 minutes of predictable, completely scareless and unsuspenseful crap.

After seeing this film, my first thought was how in the hell did this steaming turd get made, especially with such a stellar cast. I read the logline, and it seemed interesting. However, what made it to the screen was hopelessly confusing, with jump cuts, dissolves, freeze frames and other bizarre visual effects. I guess [...]

This is a terrible film. Not only is the story bland and predictable, the characters aren’t worth investing any interest in. Plus, whoever scored the music needs to go back to school, because the choices of songs for some particularly nasty scenes is really very bad. Skip this film in a big way.

Unengaging story. Excessively gory. Pure trash. Skip it.