Movie Reviews for Kaw

Kaw

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Movie Reviews of Kaw

Movie Review: Lots of Angry Birds and Not Much Else
Summary: 2 Stars

Kaw is Director Sheldon Wilson's attempt at remaking Alfred Hitchcock's Birds. However, unlike the original, Kaw lacks a clear vision, a compelling plot, or strong characterization. The story begins when a small town chief of police is getting ready to retire. On his last day a huge flock of angry Ravens attack all the towns' people. This is where the resemblance to Hitchcock ends.

The acting isn't that bad, and I've seen much worse, so no big complaints there. But the characters are wooden, one dimensional, and rather uninteresting. There is a bit of intrigue with some of the Mennonite characters, but this isn't followed up on and it falls apart a few minutes after it's begun. You don't get to like any of the characters so when they're picked apart, it's hard to care. So characterization is one of my biggest complaints. Another is the plot.

The plot is weaker than wet, generic brand, tissue paper. There is a story given as to why the ravens attack, but it is medically impossible. I cannot say too much more because I don't want to give spoilers, but Mennonite farming practices are so old fashioned that their cows couldn't have the disease they do in the movie, it is medically impossible. There is no explanation as to why the Ravens are attacking all the people, or how they got to be so smart.

Look, I don't mind a movie having some weak points if it's entertaining, but it starts off horribly slow and when it does kick off, the special effects are weak at best.

I love low budget, direct to DVD horror, but this is NOT a good example of the genre and your money would be better spent elsewhere.

Not recommended. Instead, buy or rent The Birds and treat yourself to a true classic.

Movie Review: pretty god kawful...
Summary: 2 Stars

Ravens affected by mad cow disease, turn violent and terrorize a small town in Kaw (2007), a mildly entertaining, often irritating, Sy Fy production. After some birds kill a man on an isolated farm, the violence quickly escalates as the ravens become more aggressive, attacking cars, and later a school bus and buildings in the town. The local police chief Wayne Hayburn (Sean Patrick Flannery) is way out of his depth, and barely manages to do anything intelligent. The sleepy town seems to be mostly populated with halfwits, religious fanatics, and some noisy and annoying young people.

When it comes to suspense, Kaw will never be confused with Hitchcock's classic The Birds (1963). Interestingly in his next to last film appearance, Rod Taylor, who starred in The Birds, appears as a doctor in Kaw. His character is one of the few who displays any signs of intelligence, as mainly due to their own stupidity, various residents fall victim to the hoards of vicious ravens. Most of the attack scenes involve a combination of CGI, and real or dummy birds, and are semi-convincing at best, usually featuring people waving their arms wildly, pretending to try and fend off an attack. The special effects used to create the mad flocks, while passable, still look pretty fake.

To help setup the raven attacks, the poorly written screenplay has most characters doing silly and very stupid things, which gets rather annoying after a while, and by the end of the film, you may not particularly care who survives. If seeing some bird-brained people being swarmed by a pack of vicious CGI ravens sounds like fun, you might want to check this out. For those only mildly interested, you may be able to catch it on Sy Fy where it occasionally appears.

Movie Review: It's Pretty Kaw-ful
Summary: 2 Stars

I really enjoyed Sheldon Wilson's "Shallow Ground", but this movie is terrible. The concept obviously works, check out Hitchcock's "The Birds". For some reason it doesn't work here. Maybe it's because of all the clichés, but this film just fell apart from the get go. There is no suspense, the acting is half-hearted, and that's not just because of the bad script. I actually couldn't even sit through the entire movie. So do yourself a favor, don't waste an hour and a half of your life on this movie. I didn't.

Movie Review: Kaw...
Summary: 2 Stars

Well the only reason I bought and saw this movie was because of Sean Patrick Flanery. Well it was good if you like him, which I do, but the movie itself was pretty horrid. If you are not a fan of his I wouldn't recommend this movie.