Perhaps it didn't help that I could only watch this movie in dubbed English, dubbed voices rarely work in foreign movies, subtitles are better.
The movie is billed as a horror comedy by Amazon and that's it's biggest failure. The comedy aspect doesn't work, it needs to be a pure horror/creature feature. The better parts of the movie were definitely the serious parts where the authorities were hunting the lion.
The acting was .......bad! Perhaps it would be better if I heard it in dutch, the dubbed english voices certainly didn't work. There is absolutely no chemistry between the male and female lead. Authority figures are all depicted as buffoons. Perhaps the one actor who did do a good job was the guy who played the lead cop (Rienus Krul i think his name is) who carries off the role of a cop out of his depth hunting lions instead of criminals.
But the biggest acting faux pas is Mark Frost as Jack, the expert hunter. Being English myself, his portrayal of his English "aristocratic" hunter is deeply offensive to me. I can laugh at the English people but his parody is just offensive the English nation. Parodies and send ups of different nationalities have been done before, very well and very funnily (such as Allo, Allo, which parodies French, English, Germans and Italians). I can understand even better now how black people feel about Black Lives Matter.
There are some good features to this movie. The CGI lion was very well done and the chase on the moped works well. The scene on the tram was ok, but could have been done better.
If I find the movuie in dutch I'm prepared to watch it and see if I change my opinion but I will still hold onto my ioinion that the comedy aspect doesn't work.
The movie is billed as a horror comedy by Amazon and that's it's biggest failure. The comedy aspect doesn't work, it needs to be a pure horror/creature feature. The better parts of the movie were definitely the serious parts where the authorities were hunting the lion.
The acting was .......bad! Perhaps it would be better if I heard it in dutch, the dubbed english voices certainly didn't work. There is absolutely no chemistry between the male and female lead. Authority figures are all depicted as buffoons. Perhaps the one actor who did do a good job was the guy who played the lead cop (Rienus Krul i think his name is) who carries off the role of a cop out of his depth hunting lions instead of criminals.
But the biggest acting faux pas is Mark Frost as Jack, the expert hunter. Being English myself, his portrayal of his English "aristocratic" hunter is deeply offensive to me. I can laugh at the English people but his parody is just offensive the English nation. Parodies and send ups of different nationalities have been done before, very well and very funnily (such as Allo, Allo, which parodies French, English, Germans and Italians). I can understand even better now how black people feel about Black Lives Matter.
There are some good features to this movie. The CGI lion was very well done and the chase on the moped works well. The scene on the tram was ok, but could have been done better.
If I find the movuie in dutch I'm prepared to watch it and see if I change my opinion but I will still hold onto my ioinion that the comedy aspect doesn't work.