A Major Disappointment

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

I can't say that making a movie where dozens of dogs are going berzerk and violent is easy to make, it needs a lot of work, dog training, choosing the correct breed, good chemistry between the dogs and the cast, but still, you can't get it any worse than this. It is so bad that IMDB labeled it as comedy-horror-thriller... the acting is awful, facial expressions equal to zero, the dogs are having friendly faces before they "attack", plus the producer forgot that Rodriguez got shot with an arrow in the leg because moments later she was running like wild. There is some next to none story, without getting into the characters and explaining the whole movie plot with nothing more than 2 sentences... miserable. 4/10

Partying for a weekend, friends head to a deserted island to have it for themselves where they realize that there's a pack of vicious, experimental dog breeds living on the island preventing them from leaving and try to get away before the dogs tear them apart.While it's not that bad, there's some really solid points here. Among the better features here is the fact that this has a lot of really great action scenes as there's some really great moments that are spread because of all the dog attacks. The first attack in the woods is quite good, with the dogs appearing out-of-nowhere to get the drop on the victims at the cabin is a fun scare, and there's even some really great attack scenes going on throughout from the several long fights in the car to the fun inside the barn and all the way to the real greatness of the military complex at the end. These the attack scenes are all fun and quite entertaining as the fact that the dogs do launch plenty of attacks and manage to keep the pace to this one up-tempo for the most part here. The fact that the real dogs are used in them is a great move, since they're realistic looking and make them look even more brutal and dangerous than what CGI can make it look and it's a lot better when it looks more real. The fact that they're real makes their brutality seem even more vicious seeing them tear into the body and scratching up with the wounds is great. Along with the great bloody wounds that are quite realistic, these here is what makes the film so fun. This one here doesn't have a whole lot really wrong with it. The film's biggest problem is that it feels way too similar to another film involving killer dogs out there. It's not exactly taken note-for- note, but this one still hits the more important areas and puts them together with very little changes to break up the differences. There's even several scenes that are taken straight out of the movie here without much difficulty spotting them. Had this one not really done that route, it would've had a little better chance. That would've left the film's main flaw, the dreadful middle segment, still there. After the first attack, there's very little in terms of anything happening for a pretty hefty stretch of time. This is a momentum killer, as it resorts to having them do nothing in the time rather than spend time talking about useless topics. It gets boring, and derails the film slightly, yet the film's main concern is the film's closeness to the other film.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and violence-against- animals.

I'm almost ashamed to admit that I actually quite enjoyed "The Breed" and I'm sure there's more people out there who won't admit it. It was fun right from the opening with the horrendously bad actors, "wood" and the awful direction. However, then five new kids come on the island and they're more competent actors and strangely likable as the film went on. I did actually feel sorry to see some of them die which is unusual in a film like this. The characters weren't flat, which was a lovely surprise. Of course it is extremely clichéd with the group going into a cabin with a creepy basement and so forth. This is the type of horror film "The Cabin in the Woods" was warning us of! The dogs are also quite funny as I do not find dogs scary in the slightest, especially when they're as cute as these ones! To see a bunch of cute panting dogs slowly gather and surround the young adults like "The Birds" was quite an unintentional hilarious sight. There was also a surprisingly good pace with the group always trying to make some innovative decisions. All in all I found it to be an entertaining and fun film. You shouldn't take it seriously and if you don't then you might actually find yourself enjoying it!

"The Breed" is one of those hard movies to rate. When I read the synopsis, I thought it was going to be a quite dull film. I believed the main plot was too simple and too repeated to deliver a good time-- come on, who would guess that a story involving serial killer dogs could be this good? And who would guess there would be enough plot for such simple story?Some youth decide to go to an island to spend some days, but they encounter a group of carnage dogs in that (apparently) calm place. Thought the cast is pretty unknown, they never fail in being credible, and Hill Harper shows he's a potential comedian-- he's very funny all the time without even trying. The dogs are well trained and believable-- except for the fact that sometimes one single dog is capable to kill a character, but sometimes three dogs aren't able to even make one character bleed. Directing is what really makes this film suspenseful. In fact, I really doubted that a film with this apparently silly story could be indeed scary and suspenseful. I swear, I was scared and found some scenes frightening! All in all, this is surprisingly good movie that shouldn't have such low rating on IMDb.