Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

I usually watch SyFy movies on weekends while editing video. More often than not they are easy to walk away from when I need to concentrate on my work or turn off the audio. Plots are template driven, characters are stock, effects are cheesy and you don't need a big screen plasma to laugh at them.WAR WOLVES departs from the formula in several ways and I liked it a lot more than I expected to. Seeing John, Tim and Adrienne was a treat. Somebody cared enough to set up some nice atmosphere in several scenes such as the bar confrontation early on and understood the visual power of "magic hour" lighting. Some key characters had mysterious backgrounds, although this may not have been intentional. The formula and template was there but the stock characters were a little less "stock" than many shows where everyone is snack food for the big CGI or puppet monster.This thing was shot in Inverness, California according to IMDb and I think they drew from LA for a decent crew and attempted a decent production design on a shoestring budget. They apparently spent more on cast and less on fake blood and needless explosions or maybe the director called in some favors.Nobody turns on SyFy expecting OTHELLO, but WAR WOLVES was striving to be TERMINATOR or SWAMP THING and deserves credit. I would love to see them try it again with a 10x budget and I betcha the continuity, plot holes and bad makeup and cheesy fight scenes could be patched right up!

"War Wolves" is a potentially promising but ultimately unspectacular werewolf effort.**SPOILERS**Coming back from Afghanistan, squadron Jake Gabriel, (Michael Worth) Erika Moore, (Natasha Alam) Justine, (Kristi Clainos) Casey, (Siri Baruc) Clay, (Dan Southworth) and Andrew Jensen, (Alex Ballar) are struggling to adapt to being civilians, and several of them turn homicidal as a result. Seemingly convinced that something happened to them back during the war, this leads Tony Ford, (John Saxon) and Frank Bergman, (Tim Thomerson) hunters of strange creatures, to conclude that a werewolf virus had infected the unit and has caused all of them to turn into ravenous creatures. Unable to fight them off, they enlist one of the soldiers who still has control over the situation to help them, and together they head off to eliminate the remaining squad members before more succumb to the virus.The Good News: This one did have some good points about it that did work. One of the best aspects here is the fact that there's a rather large amount of action presented within, despite not a whole lot of scenes overall, but overall when it focuses on action the film is rather entertaining. Once it starts at the beginning with the squad's infiltration of the station during the war, it's an all-out firing zone on both sides which results in all-out chaos during the battle, with blood aplenty, some traditional war-movie style action and a hint of suspense when it's revealed that there's something sinister among the group when they start getting attacked by the strange humanoid-creatures, which makes it all the more frightening as well as action-packed. There's also a really fun barroom brawl here which shows three of the women taking out all the guys in the place in an old-western style fight scene that is an absolute blast to watch, namely for the women but also because it's just so cheesy and entertaining. A motel ambush that turns into a shoot-out also has some good parts to it, and features some rather impressive moments. All of them, pale, though, to the two full-on martial-arts-filled fist-fights that litter the finale of the movie, with two of them coming out as quite a lot of fun. The first, which is designated as a training session, is over a little quickly but still has a great pace to it that makes it somewhat enjoyable, and the final part is a full-on part that has absolutely nothing at all wrong with it but has a lot going for it. From a great location to good moves to a nicely balanced back-and-forth struggle, it ends the action nicely and keeps up the fun pace. There's also quite a nice bit of blood here, despite there not really having a lot of variety in the kills yet the splatter shown is good enough to stay interesting. The last plus is the fact that this one manages to use a slow-burn on the werewolf transformation, which is a nice touch and really has its moments. These here are all that work for this one.The Bad News: There were only a couple flaws here, but those here are quite a bit more important than the positives. One of the biggest issues with this one is the fact that the film is so scattershot with its plot that it's virtually impossible to determine what the storyline is about. The original premise, about soldiers being exposed to a werewolf virus while in Iraq makes sense, but then to feature all of them returning back with hardly mention of anything going on or why this is central to their actions makes understanding the film almost impossible. Beyond several mentions of them proclaiming that he is integral is all we get, and that makes for a series of scenes that go by at a slow, pedestrian pace without any kind of explanation as to why it's happening, and due to getting so many different plots going at once is the real fault here. Some of them easily could've been trimmed and removed, slimming down the running time and forcing the remaining time on developing the few good ideas it has in here. Also problematic is the fact that there's no explanation as for why the werewolves are suddenly martial-artists with the skills beyond normal humans, able to leap around on wires and do highly-acrobatic turns and kicks when nothing of the sort has even been used to denote that as a skill is rather troublesome, and that they can even do it at all is a big problem. The fact that this one tends to suffer from a rather important flaw in that the werewolf transformations, which are integral to a werewolf film, are nowhere to be seen and instead the film forces upon us the most insipid, utterly laughable and ridiculous looking beasts to pass as werewolves in the entire genre, is perhaps the most egregious flaw here though. There's no human-into-wolf scenes here, but instead simply show up in fangs, contacts and dog-noses attached to them, acting like the martial-artist mentioned earlier, and are expected to be bought as werewolves. It's beyond laughable, it's simply ridiculous and makes them look even more low-rent than they should be, and that takes a lot of fear out of them, which when combined with the other problems really lowers this one considerably. These here are the film's flaws.The Final Verdict: Without a whole lot of really good parts and only some really bad ones, this one doesn't turn out that good overall and is overall disappointing. Worth a look for those into the genre or are huge fans of the usual Sci-Fi Channel fare, while those that aren't fans now shouldn't expect much from this one.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language and Brief Nudity

I am not one to often leave comments for films but if you are toying with the idea to sit through this god awful movie, my advice is don't. The acting is so poor and laughable,the characters are very 2 dimensional. The "matrix" style fight scenes are a severely poor rip off from the aforementioned. When it comes to the make up effects I could of done a better job the actors looked like hairless pooches with rather large ears. The plot was an absolute farce with as much depth as a kiddies paddling pool. If you want to waste an hour and half of your life then go ahead watch this movie but if you value every minute of your life avoid like the plague.I like to think I watched this so you the reader doesn't have to. I don't know if there is another version of this movie but the people giving it descent reviews almost certainly could not have watched the same movie as I did.

Let's see, it has three of the most very super hot female werewolves I've ever seen.That's about all I can say about this movie, other than that SciFi channel has really gone down hill on their flicks. This had to have been an extremely low budgeted film. The plot was very weak, at the end only two of the three female werewolves actually die and you never find out what happens to Kacey (Siri Baruc), did she live, die, run away? John Saxon's role was very weak, for a star of his caliber I expected better. They should have hired a better military adviser, the army portion was not believable.You never actually find out how all five became werewolves (3 female - 2 male), was it a virus like the movie description says or was it by injury????? Other than the HOT women, I see this as two hours of my life I will never get back!