Skinwalkers (2007)
Average Rating: 3.5/10
Reviews Counted: 37
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 32
Skinwalkers is an atrociously-acted project whose unoriginal and ineptly-staged action sequences remind viewers of far better werewolf and action movies.
Average Rating: 2.8/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 11
Skinwalkers is an atrociously-acted project whose unoriginal and ineptly-staged action sequences remind viewers of far better werewolf and action movies.
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His 13th birthday fast drawing near, an unsuspecting young boy on the verge of a remarkable transformation remains completely unaware that an ancient prophecy is set to be fulfilled with the rising of the red moon. To most folks, 12-year-old Timmy (Matthew Knight) would seem an average adolescent with a bright future on the horizon. In the tiny town of Huguenot, however, nothing is as it seems. As Timmy's health rapidly begins to take a turn for the worse, his concerned mother, Rachel (Rhona
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Jason Behr
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Elias Koteas
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Rhona Mitra
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Kim Coates
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Natassia Malthe
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Matthew Knight
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Sarah Carter
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Barbara Gordon
Nana
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Skinwalkers is never able to escape its fundamental preposterousness. You've seen worse, but, trust me, you've seen better.
Top CriticOn the fright scale, this pack of werewolves ranks below a basket of puppies.
Yawningly directed by Jim Isaac, Skinwalkers is a slavering mess that buries its clunky addiction metaphor beneath a welter of genre clichés, all delivered in extra-slow motion.
The problem with most werewolf movies isn't that they're derivative, but that they're badly written, badly acted, or just plain silly. Skinwalkers hits the trifecta: all three apply.
A werewolf movie without much bite.
A thoroughly undistinguished addition to a genre that probably reached its peak a quarter-century ago with An American Werewolf in London.
It's obvious at times that Skinwalkers tries to emulate Kathryn Bigelow's awesome vampire western Near Dark, but without kickass character actors like Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen onboard, it ain't the same.
in the absence of tension, laughs, thrills, scares or anything like complexity, there is nothing here for viewers to sink their fangs into. The only real note of menace...is a hint at the end that there may be a sequel.
Silly werewolf tale is violent but boring.
stinks like a mangy animal's fetid coat
Thank goodness for directors and actors to whom good sense is their silver bullet -- I haven't had this many laughs since Miss Teen South Carolina announced her career in cartography.
Even the special effects aren't very special.
Admittedly, there's something about a bunch of hot-looking Goth-type vampires on motorcycles that has, well, a little bite to it.
Kudos to the ad campaign, but nuts to everyone else involved in this snuffly, histrionic werewolves-at-war-with-one-another yawner.
This werewolf flick is all bark and no bite.
If lots and lots of shooting and wrassling and growling turns your crank, then you might have a good time with Skinwalkers; otherwise, it's a total snore.
Indistiguishable from either the horror or action product that routinely comes out of the straight-to-video pipeline.
One of the year's more pleasant surprises.
The film may have suffered some bad buzz earlier on, but it's far better than most of the other werewolf offerings.
In Skinwalkers, there are two kinds of skinwalkers. Some see their bloodlust as a curse, and others, more colorfully, "embrace the power of the beast."
To borrow that immortal self-critiquing line from director James Isacc's own Jason X, 'This sucks on so many levels.'
A throwback to workmanlike '70s and '80s-era low-budget action thrillers.
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its alrght movie with alright fight sequences but its just predictable and annoyingly boring in some places!