kensai-5 Objectively, Dog Soldiers is a fairly bad movie, with hardly any of the scenes making sense, very shallow humor, low-brow writing and a pitiful excuse for action. The film crew and actors manage to provide some credence, but I assume that the "so bad, it's good" factor would work a lot better if they hadn't.Let me give you a spoiler-free rundown of what the first 30-40 minutes of the movie *looked like* to me: A group of adult men are playing a group of twelve-year-old boys who are running through the woods, shooting with their toy guns at imaginary enemies, while shouting nonsensical stuff that preteens assume adult soldiers might say. Since none of the material the camera captured had any resemblance of tension, generic but frantic action music is playing, while the actors are pointing their rifles into the depth of the wood, shooting wildly at absolutely nothing. When not shooting at air, the group of men-playing-children is sitting around a fire or walking aimlessly through the woods and having some of the most boring and dim-witted conversations you could hope to find in a movie...in my opinion. After that, the scenery switches but nothing else improves much.The acting is fair enough and occasionally loosened by exaggeration. Author/director Neil Marshall isn't generally awful either, but rather brought to the limits of his wits when it came to creating tension or action with a bare minimum of a budget. Almost everything that happens is laughably ridiculous and hardly given much thought. A lot of cheap tricks serve in visibly veiling the lacking quality of the action. The music is basically carrying every scene. Without it most viewers might question whether anything is actually happening at all. Choppy editing is used to help the music along, creating an audio-visual mess. One scene features a single soldier attempting to block a door from a werewolf, while also reloading his rifle. Nothing exciting is actually happening. The soldier is crouching in front of the door, fumbling with his gun, while we see little bits of an ugly, static wolf mask lightly moving around in the door's window. If the camera held still, the scene would be laughable to look at, without a trace of tension. To circumvent the obvious absence of action, the scene switches between 2 different camera perspectives, every second. In one angle the camera keeps swinging around, like the cameraman was heavily drunk and just about to run off to the toilet, jerking around on the spot, unable to concentrate on his job, only barely capable of keeping the camera held on the scene. In the other angle, the camera appears to be lying on the ground, after the cameraman finally ran to the bathroom. In his despair he didn't even mind placing the camera straight or orderly. The soldier is seen in the top right corner, while 3 quarters of the screen only show the ground and the wall next to the door-frame. Additionally, the camera is slightly tilted, giving the impression that the house is about to tip over to the side. Now imagine the scene altering between those two camera angles once per second. In effect it's a lot like watching a video of two elderly men, quietly playing chess, while frantic action music is playing and the camera view is doing what I described above - wildly moving around. And that's exactly what the majority of the movie is doing, adding music, shaky cam and bad editing to otherwise boring and nonsensical events.I won't pretend that my assessment of the movie would or should feel the same to everyone. Regardless of that, I think you might have the best chances of enjoying this movie if you belong to the group of men who are easily excitable by soldier uniforms, firearms and thoroughly meaningless, childish expressions like "Owned you!".

Syxiepoo Since 2002, I have watched Dog Soldiers maybe a dozen times and I find it just as good every single time.It's as real and visceral as a Werewolf movie can ever be. It benefits greatly from being located in Scotland and from its British cast, all of whom are, quite simply, excellent.The werewolves are brilliantly conceived and brought to the screen. The script and action are so engrossing, I feel myself believing that they are real, at least for the duration of the movie. This is the suspension of disbelief to the maximum.Someone on here made a comparison with American Werewolf in London, another excellent, classic horror thriller. However, I feel that Dog Soldiers is an even better thrill ride.I'm a movie buff, but not a complete purist. I've considered every aspect of the movie and I cannot find anything about it worthy of the slightest adverse criticism.My apologies if I sound somewhat of a fanboy about Dog Soldiers, but, for me, this may be the best film of its genre that I've ever seen ... and I've seen a good many over the years.If you're reading this and haven't yet seen the movie, drop everything and do so now And if you've seen it before ... you know you must see it again.

The Funny Just so I don't forget, 'CONTAINS SPOILERS!'. I like how the movie started with the couple being attacked by a Dog Soldier in the tent. That was pretty decent. But, what I love most about this movie is the fact that it is an original idea. Not many movies these days are something original, It's either a remake or based off a book of some kind which even if the movie is really good, that does get kind of annoying just like this long review I'm writing. Another thing I love about this movie is the HUGE lack of CGI... that makes me so happy to see how much work and effort this team put into making this movie awesome! I honestly don't care for CGI, and if I ever make my horror script into my own film, it WILL NOT have any either, all makeup and props only. The only thing that I don't agree with on this movie is how fast a Dog Soldier can heal. it's like, instantly. Other than that, I don't think I have too many spoilers, but I rather be safe than sorry... I just wish they would make that Fresh Meat sequel I've been reading about for the last decade. If they do, I will love it too! also, this movie should have gotten a 7/10 star rating at least. and THANKS to whoever takes the time to read this review, sorry if it's a waste for you.

gwnightscream This 2002 horror film stars Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Ian Cunningham, Emma Cleasby, Darren Morfitt and Chris Robson. This takes place in Scotland where a squad of army soldiers on a training exercise become attacked by werewolves in the wilderness. Pertwee (Gotham) plays Sergeant, Wells, McKidd plays Private, Cooper aka "Coop," Cunningham (Game of Thrones) plays Captain, Ryan, Cleasby plays Zoologist, Megan, Morfitt plays Private, Witherspoon aka "Spooner," and Robson plays Private, Joe. This is pretty good, the cast is decent and there's good make-up effects. If you enjoy werewolf/horror flicks, I recommend checking this one out.