I was expecting little from Grizzly Rage, as many creature movies especially if they are low-budget range from slight guilty pleasure-worthy to truly terrible. Grizzly Rage belongs in the latter, really one of the worst films I've seen recently. People are not exaggerating when they say the bear is the best actor, however that is not saying much as through it is not enough of a threat, its range of movements is very few which undermines the tension. But when I say that, it is because the other actors are so terrible, some beautiful people here but no acting talent to match it, coming across as over-earnest or non-existent, mainly the latter. The acting is not the only bad thing about it. I have seen cheaper-looking movies, as the scenery is quite nice, the only redeeming quality of the movie actually, but Grizzly Rage is choppily edited and the bear at times looks like footage out of a nature documentary. The characters are little more than annoying stereotypes that I have many times in creature films and pretty all those times it's the same effect. The bear is the one character you come close to rooting for and that's counting for very little. The actors don't have much to work with either, aside from their annoying characters, the story is far too padded out, goes nowhere too often and when there is anything happening any potential for genuine terror or suspense is wasted for attack scenes that are awkwardly shot, predictable and also contrived. The script is awful as well, stilted and very cheesy, and a lot of the time is just as turgid as the pacing in the middle of the film. All in all, really bad, I struggled to finish it although somehow I managed to. 1/10 and that is only for the scenery. Bethany Cox
Review of Grizzly Rage
