Roy Hart
If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
Quiet Muffin
This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Darin
One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
Joejoesan
The original Screamers movie was an entertaining scifi film that could best be described as a serious science fiction variation on Tremors. Years later the sequel is clearly inspired by James Cameron's Aliens and if you don't expect much it's pretty entertaining.In this highly predictable tale a team of soldiers are traveling to the Screamers planet because of a distress call they received. They only have six days to rescue the one who sent out the signal before a big meteor storm will destroy the whole planet. Okay, let's do this!The story will then give you all the clichés that you want, from the lead who has a personal score to settle to the one who wants to steal the Screamers technology to sell it on earth (yes, that's Burke!). In classic The Thing fashion anybody could be a Screamer so if our protagonist meets this handsome survivor (a young Stephen Ammell) you'll probably know how this will end.Despite all its flaws Screamers: The Hunting is a nice low-budget action movie. There is a lot of blood and although actress Gina Holden is no Ripley she does a decent job (and isn't hard on the eyes either). Go see it!
siderite
This movie is clearly what it was set up to be: a low budget sci-fi action to take some money from people who liked Screamers. Unfortunately, 95% of the script is taken from Aliens, they even have Lance Henriksen in it. The only thing that is bringing to the table is that now we know where The Arrow was all that time he said he was on an island somewhere. (that's a Steve Amell reference, sorry)In truth I really wanted to like it. I loved Screamers and I thought that, just as that one was a box office bust but was OK, this would also be some sort of attempt to escape mediocrity, however when the film starts with talk about "class 10 Magellanic solar meteoric storm" you know you're in trouble.Bottom line: everything in this movie is copied from somewhere, like scavenged spare parts put together to kill any sort of creativity. Ironically to the point.
eflemieux
OMG what an awful movie. The story is moronic, the acting is laughable and the casting is pathetic (except for Lance Henricksen, who rocks, as usual).When I saw that the writing credit went to one of the producers, I should have known that the main objective of that production was to rip-off the Canadian tax payers and the viewers of their hard-earned dollars. It confirms my opinion that English Canadian cinema is mostly a bargain basement version of Hollywood, that only survives on subsidies and because Canadian pay-TV channels have to invest in local production.The story is a festival of clichés, any idiot could guess the finale 30 minutes before the movie ended. We even get a sex scene but the producers must have cut the unavoidable t&a images so they could get a PG rating. It's an horrible movie, really... The only reason people watch it is because the title has some notoriety (and i must say I hated the first one).Physical effects are well done, though.
elbandito1200
I really looked forward seeing the sequel to screamers, as the first one is a b-movie scifi-marvel. But what did I get? This? Non-class-pseudo-actors given a piece of inconsistent trash to make a movie from??? Everything is stolen from great scifi-masterpieces like alien 1 and 2. You may credit this as "hommage" but a movie as bad is just an insult to those movies. The story is nonexistent, read the other criticisms below for details of how insanely stupid and at the same time boring the script was written. You can foretell every minute in the movie as it is so plain obvious. In how dire financial problems was Lance Henriksen to make even this short appearance?Utter waste of time. Just watch it if - like someone suggested below - you want to see it as a scifi-parody. Even if it's bad.
