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Absolutely the worst movie.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Visionary director Eric Weston, working from his own script, brings this powerful story of human survival to the screen with stunning style and haunting imagery. The cinematography is incredibly striking and the special effects absolutely breath taking. A fine cast is aided immensely by the wonderful Meshach Taylor in the role of Crazy Briggs. It is a magnificent performance by Taylor and a suiting epitaph to a truly great actor as this would be his last film. The suspense builds to the point that it all becomes almost more than one can bear, with one intense scene following another. Unrelenting horror and overwhelming terror makes for one of the more rewarding cinematic experiences in some time.

The one thing I can say for this movie is that the quality of the cinematography is fantastic. Being a Costas Mandylor fan, it was awesome to see great closeup shots of him with those sparkling blue eyes. The plot itself was alright, nothing to rave about. The subplot involving rival teens seemed pointless to me at first, but after watching the movie in it's entirety I can see why they put it in the film. The downfalls of this film were the CGI/special effects. The transitions from humans to hyenas were so blatantly obvious and unbelievable. Also the "hyenas" themselves were basically computer animation. The acting was fairly decent. There was a lot of predictability in the writing. I would watch this movie again sometime.

Hyenas starts as a woman is forced off the road with a punctured tyre while driving along an isolated backwoods road, while trying to repair the puncture a car pulls up & two people get out who then transform into flesh eating Hyenas & slaughter the women & her young baby. The woman's husband Gannon (Costas Mandylor) is informed & is devastated by the news, a guy named Crazy Briggs (Meshach Taylor) contacts Gannon & claims to know who killed his wife & baby. After some convincing Gannon finally believes Briggs & sets out to kill as many Hyena creatures as possible along with Bruggs who is himself a seasoned Hyena hunter, meanwhile in the Hyena clan itself a power struggle has broken out between two Alpha females who want to take complete control of the clan. Both Briggs & Gannon become involved as the circle of lies & betrayal leads to shocking revelations...Edited, written & directed by Eric Weston this has quite a nice video cover as seen on the IMDb but is a lousy film, basically a Werewolf film but with Hyenas instead of Wolves this is pretty bad. At 90 odd minutes Hyenas is too long, there simply isn't enough meaningful story here to pad this thing out for an hour & a half. The script is pretty flimsy, the existence of the Hyena creatures is never gone into besides some nonsense about the slave trade or something, we never find out why Briggs became a Hyena hunter or even what the advantages of turning into a Hyena actually is. I mean Hyenas can't really do anything other than run & bite, being a human has far more positive aspects, right? Hyenas is pretty dull with minimal story, minimal character development & a twist that feels like an afterthought it has such little impact. Wholly predictable & throughly bland throughout there really is nothing about Hyenas I could recommend to anyone, there are quite simply so many better films out there that you shouldn't even be considering watching this forgettable 'Creature Feature'.Shot mainly in some wood somewhere & a mine at the end Hyenas is visually bland with nothing going for it, some of the special make-up & CGI computer effects are very bad. There are a couple of dead mutilated bodies & a bit of blood splatter but nothing much in the way of gore & all the attacks occur off screen, the opening attack for instance happens off screen while we see a shot of a car door. Less than inspiring. There's a little nudity but not much. The high pitched sounds the Hyenas make sound more like Chimps than anything else & it goes into the realms of unintentionally funny when humans with glowing red eyes are making these high pitched monkey type sounds to each other.Probably shot on a really low budget the opening sequence set at night was obviously filmed during the day & the image darkened along with terrible looking CGI headlights added to the cars. The acting isn't great although the threadbare script doesn't give anyone anything to work with, does it?Hyenas has been doing the round on British cable television for a while & while there doesn't seem to be any DVD out yet I can understand why as it's pretty bad all round. Watcha decent Werewolf film instead.

Well, at least they tried.One of the better aspects of "Hyenas" was the fact that they took the traditional werewolf cast mold, broke it and replaced it with hyenas. A bold move, and it might actually have worked, had they the CGI on their side. This approach was a much needed one, just a shame it failed.The story told in "Hyenas", well there were two stories actually, was pretty simple and easy to follow. The main story was the one with Gannon losing his family to the flesh-eating shape-shifting hyenas, then being sought out by Crazy Briggs, trained and then seeking revenge. That part of the story was actually decent enough. The other half of the story, the one with the two rivaling street gangs, well that was just unnecessary and very strained to look at. Those thugs came off nothing more than muppets trying to behave like street urchins. That part of the story should have stayed in the cutting room.As for the CGI effects, well I am not much of a fan of cheesy effects, and "Hyenas" was one big cheese effect fest. From the glowing red eyes on the hyenas (as well as their hybrid and human forms) to the downright eyesore CGI animated hyenas running around. The movie truly did not have the effects on its side. And I think, if they actually had a bigger budget for the effects, the movie might actually just have proved much more cool and would have raised itself up from below mediocre value. And the actual shape-shifting scenes, well, you have to see that to believe it, and seriously, try not to laugh when you do.The cast was a sorted bunch to say the least. I was a bit surprised to see Costas Mandylor (playing Gannon) in this movie. He went from the "SAW" movies to this? Alrighty then. But he did a good enough job in this movie, though he was better in "SAW". Joshua Alba (playing Marco) was actually one of the guys putting on one of the better performances. I am not much of a fan of Christa Campbell, but wow, this performance was bad."Hyenas" truly had potential, but it was hindered by its budget. The CGI effects really brought down the overall enjoyment of the movie. Plus some of the acting and dialogue also helped tripping the movie along the way. It is a shame, because it was refreshing to see hyenas take it on to the scene, trying to kick the werewolves from their pedestal. This movie could have worked out so well, but it wasn't just meant to be. I am rating this movie 3/10 because of the story and because it had potential, it was just hindered in its wake.