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ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

TrueHello 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.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Woodyanders A group of friends venture into the deep woods for a weekend getaway. Things go nightmarishly awry when the group find themselves trapped in a remote cabin by a ferocious bloodthirsty monster.Director Brett Simmons keeps the familiar, yet still effective and engrossing story moving at a brisk pace, makes nice use of the beauteous sylvan setting, builds a considerable amount of tension, maintains a grimly serious tone throughout, delivers a handy helping of graphic gore, and stages the attack scenes with savage aplomb. The compact script by Thommy Hutson and Catherine Trillo draws the characters with some depth, offers a few bleak insights into the darker aspects of human nature, and isn't quite as predictable as one might expect given the tried'n'true premise. The sturdy acting by the able cast keeps this movie humming: Joey Lauren Adams as the feisty Vicky, Elizabeth Gillies as the vain Mandy, Jeremy Sumpter as the noble Matt, Keke Palmer as the sassy Alissa, Patrick Young as macho jerk Jeff, Paul Iacono as obnoxious third wheel Sean, Amaury Nolasco as cynical coward Douglas, and Thorsten Kaye as the pragmatic Carl. The filmmakers deserve extra props for going with a funky old school guy in a monster suit over cruddy CGI. Scott Wining's crisp widescreen cinematography and the spirited shivery score by tomandandy are both up to par. A worthy beast feast.

Coventry I didn't expect much from "Animal" and pretty much knew from beforehand that it was going to be a derivative and unoriginal backwoods creature-feature. And yet I still very much wanted to see it. Why? Because I previously watched writer/director Brett Simmons' 2011 horror film "Husk" and, even though that one was derivative and unoriginal as well, it was also an unpretentious and incredibly fast-paced horror throwback with some good moments of suspense and many grisly images. And guess what? "Animal" is exactly the same! I've rarely seen a more clichéd plot or more stereotypical characters, but at least the film is never boring and contains several good action sequences. A bunch of twenty-something friends head out for a weekend in the woods, in a remote area where one of them used to spent her summer vacations with her parents. Whilst still hiking, they are confronted with an unknown but extremely aggressive and ravenous type of predator that chases them into a ramshackle cabin. There, they are united with three others that are hiding from the monster. Various plans to outsmart the monster fail and meanwhile the intrigues between the dwindling group of survivors inside the cabin pile up. The script never bothers to explain what of monster/animal these poor suckers are up against. The beginning briefly hints at military involvement, when the group finds a soldier's backpack in the woods. The predator could be an experiment gone wrong, but it could also mean that someone had already tried to destroy it through military force but failed. We don't know and, frankly, I don't care because the creature is nicely gruesome and bloodthirsty. The kills could have been more rancid and gory as far as I'm concerned, though. I must also be getting very old, because I'm reading a lot of praising comments about the famous cast members, particularly the two leading ladies (Keke Palmer and Elizabeth Gillies) and some girl that has a very brief cameo at the very beginning, yet I don't know any of them. The only familiar face that I spotted was that of Joey Lauren Adams, and I know her because she starred in Kevin Smith's comedies back in the '90s… Yep, I must be getting very old.

danno47 "Animal" is simplistic, nonsensical, juvenile, and extremely unoriginal. The acting is average, at best.Rating this movie a 10, you'd have to have low expectations as to what constitutes an outstanding movie with superb acting performances and an awesome story accompanying an even better script. There is nothing true about those sentiments in this movie, whatsoever! People go into woods. Monster in woods. Monster chases people. People find cabin. People hole up in the inexplicably impenetrable cabin , blockaded with flimsy pieces of wood, a 5 year old could break through, now people have to figure way out! But people are scared, ooooo. The monster was the only thing that was slightly cool and put together extremely well but the kills were lame and monotonous. Why this movie garnered an NR is beyond me. Some blood thrown around here and there, some superficial wounding, a little monster chomping, but nothing to rave about. Pretty bad,actually. After the opening sequence, we see a Jeep full of people driving on a desolate dirt road, who happen to come upon a blockade, across said road. They park and proceed to hike in the direction from whence they just drove. It makes no sense. Keke Taylor was very good in her role. The other characters stood around and stared a lot and blabbed stupid lines, some of which had no reason to even be in the script. There are no frights, no scares, and no tension. Overall, it was very boring and a complete waste of time.

kerstinw94 Granted I wasn't expecting much after the first fifteen minutes. but its new to netflix streaming so what the hell right? Well the reviews do not lie, the bones of the film are solid, the cinematography, audio and the special effects were good. End of list. If you have seen any form of creature feature film, or monster movie even, you've seen this movie. If you haven't seen anything like this, stop and look up The Host, (korean) Grabbers, honestly so many more. The leads were consistent with most creature feature horror flicks, bad decisions were made, someones past is delved into and little attempt is made at working together, albeit for the commiserating silencing of the token villain..the dude from prison break. Yet, unlike many of its predecessors, to a fault - our protagonists reject any form of defense against the monster, save for a wall in between them. How long was that initial group there? i may have missed it but it seemed like the lay down and die approach was taken. Another issue i had was the lack of discussion regarding what the hell the creature is!? Everyone seems fine with believing it to be some woodland creature, common to the woods of wherever the hell this film takes place. While this device could have served as a commentary to the genre, in that a trope of creature features is the initial utter denial of the apparent danger or supernatural/otherwordly presence...the film chose to not really address it at all. overlooking the obvious opportunity for parody, the film instead sticks to its roots and merely chocks their insistence to denial up to stupidity and ignorance.Don't waste your time, with a little research there are some worthy genre pieces from which Animal borrows heavily.