Just finished watching SyFy's Mothman and got to say I wasn't expecting much. In all honesty I was only really interested because it had Jewel Straite in it! I was pleasantly surprised.
There are numerous reasons when watching this to shake your head or role your eyes. The attempt at CPR in the first 10 minutes is an absolute joke, the first act is a knock off of 'I know what you did last summer'. And please tell me, if they were going to hide the way Jamie died and say he died diving into shallow water, why did they take turns hitting the body in the head with a rock?!!! Did he do it 6 times? But things really improve as the movie progresses. The mirror breaking when Katherine (Jewels character) looks into it and says 'You look as bad as I feel' shows real skill for the director in timing, I wasn't expecting it and it drew me into the movie. The characters are believable and likable (except for Jared who I thought was retarded) and the actors did a decent job, especially Jewel.
There continues to be stupid elements and scenes such as naming the native American who became the Mothman Chief Cornstalk, and the shotgun that Jewel uses near the end when she shots the Mothman about 10 times without reloading, but they were forgivable. The CGI was very poor and is probably the biggest let down. If the production had put more money into the CGI, cleaned up the script the movie would have been good enough for theatrical release (I mean if Killers can get a theatrical release...
Overall I give it a 7.
There are numerous reasons when watching this to shake your head or role your eyes. The attempt at CPR in the first 10 minutes is an absolute joke, the first act is a knock off of 'I know what you did last summer'. And please tell me, if they were going to hide the way Jamie died and say he died diving into shallow water, why did they take turns hitting the body in the head with a rock?!!! Did he do it 6 times? But things really improve as the movie progresses. The mirror breaking when Katherine (Jewels character) looks into it and says 'You look as bad as I feel' shows real skill for the director in timing, I wasn't expecting it and it drew me into the movie. The characters are believable and likable (except for Jared who I thought was retarded) and the actors did a decent job, especially Jewel.
There continues to be stupid elements and scenes such as naming the native American who became the Mothman Chief Cornstalk, and the shotgun that Jewel uses near the end when she shots the Mothman about 10 times without reloading, but they were forgivable. The CGI was very poor and is probably the biggest let down. If the production had put more money into the CGI, cleaned up the script the movie would have been good enough for theatrical release (I mean if Killers can get a theatrical release...
Overall I give it a 7.