Good concept, poorly executed.

Excellent but underrated film

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Bigfoot Wars (2014)** 1/2 (out of 4) A small rural town has a string of violent murders and at first everyone is blaming bears but the Sheriff (Holt Boggs) soon learns that there are Bigfoot creatures in the woods. Before long he must team up with a redneck hunter (C. Thomas Howell) to try and save some women who have been kidnapped.BIGFOOT WARS seems to be getting a lot of negative reviews, which I obviously don't agree with. Look, I love Bigfoot but the sad fact is that the majority of the movies out there with him are really, really bad. With that said, I thought this one here has some major flaws throughout it but at the same time there were enough good things that keep it running smoothly and keeps it entertaining.For starters, the filmmakers didn't overstay their welcome and they left the running time at 74-mintues, which was a major plus. "B" movies back in the day knew better than to try and drag the material out to 90-110 minutes so keeping it short is a major plus. The film goes for some exploitation style nudity and I'm sure the male viewers will like this. Then you've got some very gory practical effects. The Bigfoot creatures here like the rip throats out so we're left with a lot of bloody action. Oh yeah, you've got got Howell playing a redneck and there's Judd Nelson in a small role.The problems should be obvious but there are some weak performances scattered throughout the film and some of the dialogue is beyond corny. The Bigfoot costumes look fake but at the same time they were good enough for a film like this. The biggest problem is the fact that the film really slows down on the killings and the exploitation once the "hunt" starts and that's too bad since it was the best thing the film had going for it.

Movie "Big Foot Wars": This title denotes multiple wars occurring when we view with only one taking place if you can call it a war. Field General Grrrgrah (At least that's the tag on his hairy chest) growls and displays his incisors constantly in a display of displeasure at his troops. They kidnapping young nubile human women and then the Big Feet cover their breasts with mud. He is greatly dismayed and angered as well as I. At least that is what I understood the growling to mean either that or he was complaining about a one HUGE hang nail. One Big Foot bites the dust and I cried at one more incredibly smelly anthropoid meeting its end. The human side in these "WARS" consist of 4 people. C. Thomas Howell (what an apt name for this movie) plays some supposedly tough ass hillbilly that carried a sledge hammer on his back just in case someone needs a steak tenderized or railroad tie driven. I must confess that every Big Foot, and there are quite a few, all look just like Rob Zombie while in makeup. I defy anyone to tell me otherwise. Judd Nelson appears as a doctor simply because he was bored and had nothing else to do. Audry Fox was cast to display her naked butt and it is a fine butt, a butt not to be overlooked, a butt to be cast in plaster. It received a score two due to this butt.The cast of nobodies run and scream and die and do we really care? I was down trodden by the end when Crazed Hillbilly man and the Sheriff bite the dust wielding a sledge hammer and a machete. They did not last as long as a premature ejaculator. If you wish to watch a plethora of Rob Zombies kill a few people all the while singing "More Human Then Human", you have your film. This movie prompted me to set the world record for self trepanation but I only achieved 14 holes in my cranium.

Some of the worst film edits I have ever seen in my life. Scenes go from day to night in a time-span of on screen minutes. Obviously no re-shoots so they hacked it together in post. Some genuinely good actors surrounded by horrible ones, looks like they had to troll the blooper reel for some connecting scenes, you have actors laughing in scenes where they are about to be killed and the editor thought a one second cut would work and maybe no one would notice. Inane explitive dialogue. Gratuitous female nudity and sex couldn't save this steaming pile of excrement.The sound is absolutely wretched. The horribly timed studio voice-overs are all savagely interrupted by the environmental on-set hiss of the live sound of the scene in progress. No post dialog dubbing in this film. They didn't hire a foley editor either. At one point a fairly realistic looking rock wall prop is touched by the actor and you hear the squeak of styrofoam. Like I said before, raw sound in every scene. My grandmother could do better sound editing than this and she's dead. It's impossible to hear what one of the more well known actors on the poster is saying half the time because his dialog is delivered in a hoarse whisper for some reason. At times they have sped up the footage when characters are running and it looks like a Benny Hill skit. In many action scenes with back and forth cuts with head snaps they forgo continuity and completely mess up what side an actor was on or what direction they were pointing a gun or where a particular Bigfoot was at one time. Also, that was the worst Bigfoot footprint I have ever seen in a movie. The director appears to have made it with his fingers in under five minutes.Every once in awhile you get a great angle and cut, but the majority of the other bad content kills this flick. They have sub plot characters that have no bearing on the film whatsoever dropped into the mix just to be killed I guess. You should watch this film to see if it ends up on your worst flick of all time list winner...

When I was kid, I read a lot of books about UFO's, the Bermuda Triangle, and Bigfoot. Naturally, when I saw that "Bigfoot Wars" had a decent rating, I gave it a chance. Unfortunately, the films decent rating was undeserved, and disingenuous. I even fell asleep during my first attempt to watch it, and it's a fairly short film. Well, being a fairly open minded person, I gave the movie a second chance, & made it all the way through. The first scene was a perfect metaphor for the film as a whole. The mayor of a small town in the U.S., is just about to sit on the john after having his way with a local working girl. Out of nowhere you hear a loud noise, and see glimpses of big hairy limbs. When the working girl goes to check out the commotion, she discovers a bloody mess, and is kidnapped by Bigfoot. Anyhow, this movie reminded me of a movie that you'd see for free on the science fiction channel. As for Bigfoot himself, there's a whole shrewdness of them, and none of them show an ounce of individuality, or intellect. All of them looked the same, ugly, and Neanderthal like. Do yourself a favor, and don't make the mistake that I did by watching this film. If you like Bigfoot, you'd be better off watching an episode of Animal Planet's "Finding Bigfoot".