Mike_Noga Remember that movie The Animal that starred Deuce Bigelow Male Gigolo and that mildly cute girl from the first Survivor? He was a security guard or something and he was horribly injured so a mad scientist transplanted animal organs into his body and he got their powers? Well this is just like that except unlike The Animal it's not even accidentally funny, but the acting is better and it's somehow more believable.Basically Justine Bateman helps a dude out by replacing his damaged eyes with wolf eyeballs. This obviously leads to him developing wolf powers, like night vision, which is cool at first, until the more undesirable wolf traits start to manifest themselves, like growling, snarling, a thirst for human blood and butt-scooting across the living room carpet. This one's not bad and manages to add a twist to the werewolf mythology.

johannes2000-1 I couldn't believe that this movie dates from 2007, it had all the looks of a below-average seventies horror-flick. Didn't they have any knowledge of modern special effects or CGI?!? Didn't they know that in the post-millennium the violence in a supposed horror- and/or scifi-movie should at least be a little bit graphic? Or did I get the purpose wrong, was it supposed to be a deep and meaningful story of man and animal, bound together in the big cycle of life, or a warning to mankind not to mess with Nature, or something like that?? It doesn't really matter, either way it turned out wrong and to me this movie failed on all accounts.First of all: the premise is very improbable. If at a given time you're capable of replacing a total eye, no responsible medical scientist would start his very first human attempt with both eyes at the same time, that's totally unprofessional. And to do all this apparently without informed consent of the patient?! And why on earth choose for eyes that have a totally unusual color for humans, and make the victim look like a freak?! By the way, I noticed that all the real wolves in the movie had puppy-like normal dark eyes, couldn't they have waited for such a specimen? The story is lame, it's about this poor guy Aaron who gets these weird eye-transplants, which suddenly makes him feel like the donor-wolf (or at least, that's what I make of it) and then he's being chased by some military men. Especially this last bit is ridiculous. I mean, I can understand that the army is interested in the results of the experiment (imagine soldiers with night-vision eye-sight!) but as the operation fails on account of the apparent nervous breakdown of the patient, it's beyond me why they're out to kill him. Why not leave him alone and look for another usable recipient? (a volunteering soldier maybe??). And why try to kill everyone else that's involved with poor Aaron, isn't that a bit steep?! Who the hell are these militaries anyway, I hope not the US army or the government, they behave like psychopaths, walking around the hospital waving automatic weapons, raiding private apartments like they're after some public enemy # 1, and displaying during the ultimate show-down in the woods a total lack of discipline, like a bunch of frightened schoolchildren, panicking and shooting randomly around.Aaron, for some unfathomable medical reason, feels like a wolf after the transplantation of the eyes. Why would that be??? He suddenly sees visions of wandering wolves. What is this? Are we supposed to believe that the memories of the donor-wolf are situated in it's eye-balls?!? And that the recipient of these eye-balls also adopts the wolf's craving for red (life-) meat and can jump off of a 30 feet high balcony and land unharmed on his all-fours like a cat (can a wolf even DO that??!).The acting (or the lack thereof) didn't help the credibility of all this either: everyone stumbles through their lines like wooden dolls, especially this Indian girl, she may be pretty but she can only come up with one expression (vexed) and some disinterested mumblings about the force of Nature, and it beats me why Aaron all of a sudden is all over her (but hey, there probably had to be at least one love-scene!). I really sympathized with actor Cory Monteith, who seems like a nice guy with a handsome enough face, but they didn't give him much to go with. He has to run around bare-chested for more than half of the movie, which could have been fun to watch, but then they had better chosen someone with a more impressive physique, Monteith really should leave his shirt on. His (few) killings and attacks are hardly shown, we just hear some growling and cries of fear and then there's another victim lying down and Aaron with some more blood on his face and chest. Not much for a modern sci-fi horror! The only good acting came from Justine Bateman, and I really like to see how she has matured into a beautiful and classy forty-something lady. She did what she could with her silly lines and she even convinced me of being this doctor with good intentions, but they made her character a kind of a wimp, who gets totally bossed around by the leader of these militaries. What a pity that the script didn't make her stand up a bit more! In the end this sums up as being a silly and rather boring movie, hardly scary or thrilling, with unbelievable goings-on, a lot of overlong National Geographic-like visuals of wolves running around woods and slopes (who cares?!?), some pretentious Indian ramblings about Man and Nature and an uneven musical score with poppy songs at the most inappropriate moments. I guess the word "superfluous" covers it all.

sol1218 **SPOILERS** Experimenting with organ transplants at the top secret Olaris Corp. Dr. Andera Hewlitt, Justine Bateman, has been able to successfully preform an eye transplant from a wolf to a baboon. It's when Dr, Hewlitt comes across a blinded security guard Aaron Scates, Cory Monteith, who was badly injured at a explosion at the plant he worked at that she used the eyes of a gray wolf to restore Aaron sight.It turns out that the wolf was brought to a local animal hospital by half French half American Indian Lydia, Tinsal Korey, who expected the injured animal to be treated for it's wounds not used in an laboratory experiment. Going to Olris Corp. to give Dr, Hewlitt a piece of her mind, on what she did to the injured wolf, Lydia is escorted out by security guards and told to stay within 50 feet of the place or else she'll be arrested for trespassing.It doesn't take that long for Aaron to realize that he not only has a new, and in good working order, pair of eyes but also a new sense of direction in life: That of a big and powerful Alpha Wolf! Aaron not only sees like a wolf but both smells and hears, and fights, like one as well. Aaron soon starts to get restless, hearing the call of the wild, and escapes from his hospital room running, bear-foot and with only his hospital pajamas on, into Lydia. Lydia upset at how she was treated at Olaris Corp. is driving home to her good friend and spiritual adviser Indian Shaman Claud Robertson, Gordon Tootoosis. Claud is the person who in the end would not only give the confused Aaron a reason for living, to reunite with his former wolf pack in the wild, but will save his life from the power-hungry military man Mobley, Will Woytowich. Mobley is trying to shut Aaron up about the secret experiments he was put under at Olaris Corp. If this all comes out Mobley and his both stooges and superiors will have to answer to congress and the American people in what their doing! Not in saving lives but, Mobley's real reasons for the wolf to human transplants, creating an super secret corps of mindless and vicious "wolfmen", who can see in the dark without the use of inferred goggles, to be incorporated into US military. The movie "Hybrid" doesn't get moving until Aaron completely abandons whatever human feeling he still has left and becomes a full fledged Alpha Wolf in the wild. After trying to rustle up a wolf pack in the civilized city all Aaron could get to follow him is a bunch of stray dogs. It's when Claud gets Aaron to understand his noble mission in life, with a whiff of ancient Native Amerian Indian wisdom, that he realizes that as much he likes his former life as a human being he's now and forever a child of the wild, and night. A wiser and enlighten Aaron now does according to what and where his animal instincts lead him. Aaron goes on to leading the wolf pack like he did in his previous life as the big gray wolf who's eyes he's now seeing with.

whitlite I liked it.I think it's rather important to attempt to look out through the eyes of other species on the planet, many of which we slaughter, imprison and use in painful experiments.If the movie is low budget, I think the importance of the message can be taken into consideration.Running about with wolves looks pretty pleasant to those of us who work hunched over a desk much of the time. Running through the woods. Yeah.Wolves are cool, and they help ecosystems in countless ways, such as reducing predators that overgraze plant species in which birds nest. Prey carcases increase insects which feed small mammals including beaver which affect the water systems that support frogs, the fish that sustain bears and so forth.The lead was personable, the love interest attractive with her heart in the right place, and burning a braid of sweet grass with a medicine man is a fine thing. I liked the touches of light hearted humor.The movie was also about violence. The wolves' violence was to defend themselves, family and offspring. Bison were killed for survival. The shooters' killings, by contrast seemed purposeless. They seemed out of touch with nature outside and within themselves. Another way of saying that corporate people need to get back to what's important and reconnect with the natural world.I'd like to see the sci fi channel air more movies like this. Rather than feeling down and empty after watching nonsensical gore following a lot of hype which mainly serves to keep more of our eyes glazed on advertisers' shiny mirages no matter how good the special effects can be, we can go back to our lives feeling far better and even a bit optimistic. I think that's what entertainment is for.