EssenceStory Well Deserved Praise

Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

ljulien Long story short : -no scenario worst acting ever (you want to punch the face of the main character...)end is so bad that you want a payoff for wasting that much your time. Im serious, its just a bad climax of some home invasion, with no explanation at all...

MrSelfPaid Where do I start? Frankly, I'm angry at myself for not reading reviews first before paying my money to go see this abomination. Have you ever seen a movie so bad that you thought you're being punked and at any moment someone's going to step from behind the screen and say: gotcha!! Well multiply that feeling by ten.Ohh man, this film sucks. Holy sh*t it sucks so bad my cousin dozed off during the first ten minutes. I was like: let him sleep to avoid the torture I was going through. The characters - I don't think you can call them that - are so naive, so one dimensional, so stupid, you'd wanna throw up when they speak. The plot - if ever there was one - is so faulty, so bad, so bland, so utterly dumb that your IQ score will drop dramatically after seeing this film. If you value your money, do not pay to see this insult to your intelligence. Midway through the movie, I woke my cousin up, gave a big middle finger to the cinema screen, and went the f$%k home. My cousin asked me what the movie was like. I replied: TORTURE.

danaekar This is made to be a typical 80's slasher tribute with little or no originality and/or innovation as to the content. The acting can be bad oftentimes, the plot is completely predictable, and yet however, somehow, it manages to deliver. It is no masterpiece but I loved the atmosphere and the 80's nostalgia. Also loved the costumes, especially the one that the cult leader was wearing. This movie is to be watched solely for fun, by fans of slasher/horror flicks, and not for search of deeper meanings of some sort. Not bad. Quite entertaining.

Desi Torres *May Contain Spoilers* After watching Jackals, the first thing that came to mind was that overall, it's a decent movie. It doesn't set out to win any awards, and the movie makes that evident right away. After an interesting intro that seems to have nothing to do with the rest of the story, the film starts off fast and leaves the exposition for later on. Coming from a director of two of the seven Saw films, this movie was rather tame in the gore field, which gets no complaints from me. After an easily better first two acts, the film decides to go with a predictable ending in the third act, although I will give it points for taking a road I hadn't thought of until it happened. It still reaches the same generic conclusion most slasher films decide to take, but it changed some of the minor details of that ending trope. When the credits began to roll, I didn't feel cheated of my time. Quite the opposite, I was actually left wanting a little more. Jackals is a movie that you sit down and watch with nothing but the expectation of being entertained. It doesn't deserve all the bad ratings, but it doesn't earn top marks either. So if you want to watch Jackals, go in with the expectation of being mildly entertained and you'll come out as such. If you're a slasher/home invasion lover, (or just a horror buff in general), this film is definitely worth a watch. It may not be very memorable, but in the end it is entertaining.