Director: James Nguyen
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Nature-Run-Amok
Plot:
Returning to his small-town home, a man finds his attempted romance with a local model interrupted by a series of attacks carried out by swarms of killer birds attacking anything that moves and must not only get themselves but the other survivors of their town to safety.
Review:
Frankly, this one really is that bad. About the only thing enjoyable with this one is the fact that there's a lot of bird encounters in the last half which really generates a modicum of excitement compared to the bland beginning. From the attack at the motel to the gunfight with the creatures trying to get away and the later sequences on the beach-side picnic area which has a bit of action thrown in to raise this one up slightly. With these providing the film with some decent gore effects for the aftermath of their attacks, these here are the film's positives as it does have many factors that bring it down.
The main issue here is the absolutely atrocious bargain-basement level CGI that passes as acceptable in the film. The attacks are laughable in how inept they appear due to the work in here, as the birds not only look completely inorganic and nowhere close to interacting within their environment that just makes for a frustrating watch. These creatures perform the most rudimentary actions possible and seems to think that passes for horrific attacks here as they seemingly hover around the location placed on-screen in a random manner which really turns these into being silly rather than scary as this occurs for every single one of these action scenes.
Likewise, the other big issue with this one is the atrocious pacing on display here which really does hamper this one considerably. There's way too many scenes of this one being dragged out with extra moments that do nothing for the film as a whole. It's not that important to witness every step of his journey into work from taking the freeway to the side-streets and walking to his desk, or his date with her at the restaurant that goes on forever which really struggles to make this one become interesting at the very beginning. As well, there's also plenty of useless scenes inserted simply to add more time to the film as the boardroom meeting showing everyone individually applauding or trying to place all the useless environmental messages that are shoehorned into the film with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, and together these elements really hold back the action to the last half of the film and rarely gives this any kind of enjoyment whatsoever.
The other big flaw is the lack of reasoning or rationale for anything that happens, from the start of the bird attacks to why items in their possession continually appear or reappear or why the film follows the same general storyline that makes it predictable. There's plenty of nonsensical elements simply thrown in for no reason, from the environmental messages and the attempts at spreading global awareness about these issues to the tangential side-characters that pop up only for the body-count which really mean nothing to the film. None of these are explored in any kind of depth or impact to get anything out of their inclusion since they're haphazardly brought up. These here really do lower this one so significantly that it's just as awful as it's reputation suggests.
Overview: /5
There really isn't much of anything happening here that is interesting, enjoyable or even watchable in any sense, and proves itself as one of the literal worst movies ever made. There's nothing here to make fun or get any kind of enjoyment out of, so just do the world a favor and pretend this one doesn't exist.
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