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Frank Grillo has to use his Purge skills to fight off a night of werewolves, in this horror-actioner that's very silly, but Film Brain doesn't think is fun.

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00:00Frank Grillo tries to survive the night when he's vastly outnumbered by lots of hungry werewolves.

00:06A year prior, a supermoon unlocked a dormant gene that turned over a billion people into werewolves.

00:11Now it's happening again and Frank Grillo and his scientists try to find a cure

00:15while Grillo races across the city to try and help his brother's widow and her daughter.

00:20That might be the goofiest, silliest premise of any movie in recent memory

00:25and it sounds like it could be some proper B-movie fun

00:28and under the direction of Stephen C. Miller who directed several of the infamous Bruce Willis

00:32geezer teasers, it certainly has the B-movie part down, the fun part not so much.

00:38Okay, let's be kind, the best parts of the film is the werewolf effects which are mostly

00:43accomplished practically by special effects experts Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr

00:47whose credits include AVP, Terminator, you name it.

00:52And yeah, the werewolves do look like massive blokes in suits, because they are,

00:56and the snouts are absolutely enormous,

00:58but it's great to see some actual costumes in camera with some gnarly gore shots.

01:03Honestly, the hero wolves that still have some human costumes or earrings like the punk werewolf

01:08are probably the most enjoyment I got out of this.

01:11Aliens meets The Purge sounds like a great combination,

01:14but it has none of the characters of the former and none of the satire of the latter.

01:17It's just witless and obnoxious.

01:20Miller leans hard on a comic book aesthetic by bathing the frame with neon colours

01:24like a Schumacher Batman movie,

01:26and when you combine that with more lens flares than a J.J. Abrams flick,

01:29it's a bit unpleasant to look at,

01:32especially when whole sections take place under headache-inducing strobe lighting.

01:36There's some nominal plot about developing a moonscreen,

01:40but that gets completely forgotten about at some point,

01:43and then it just becomes a constant barrage of loud,

01:46frantically cut werewolf battles with characters making stupid decisions.

01:50It's not even amusingly bad,

01:52apart from some hilarious moments with characters in hazmat suits

01:55with face displays like they're Iron Man for some reason.

01:59It's just numbing and exhausting until it ends super abruptly,

02:03presumably because they hacked off any epilogue so you can leave it open for a sequel.

02:07Woof.

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