GUENOT PHILIPPE
Or Daktari meets a kind of Bill Dieterle's ELEPHANT WALK with lions and tigers instead of our pachyderm friends as the heavies of the film. Or, if you prefer, a sort of home invasion film with wild beasts instead of humans. You could decline the elements of this scheme for hours with all kinds of beasts. This most dangerous movie ever shot is far from being a masterpiece, but it remains worth watching. Poor Melanie Griffith who already had to deal with BIRDS nearly twenty years earlier, now she has to face wild animals !!!!
Mr-Fusion
Definitely one of those movies you have to see to believe. "Roar" doesn't have much to offer in the plot department (aside from the conservationist message), but it has plenty in the way of unparalleled filmmaking negligence. Just look at that tagline:"No animals were harmed in the making of this film.
70 cast and crew members were."It's hard to watch what happens onscreen because there are no stuntmen. Tippi Hedren really fractured a leg after being thrown from an elephant; Melanie Griffith really needed medical attention after being mauled; Jan de Bont (that guy who made "Die Hard" and "Speed" look so good) really needed extensive stitches after being scalped(!) by a lion. The reactions from the cast are as real as the blood, and you're constantly shaking your head that they'd use wild animals with no training or supervision. They're apex predators, not pets! The whole thing is incredibly irresponsible, and it lives (warts and all) on film. It's amusing that they try to lighten things up with a playful score and a happy ending. But this is not family film; it's downright chilling.7/10
sarine voltage
Wow. This is by far one of the coolest--if not the coolest--flicks I have ever seen (and I've seen it 3 times so far); definitely one-of-a-kind, there are no others in its class to even liken it to.If labels are to be given, I believe "adventure" would be the most appropriate classification. I don't know who put "horror" up there in the listing, I'd sooner list it under "family" than "horror"; they may have been confused by some reports of what transpired during the filming of this movie, but those reports should not be confused with what happens in the movie itself.Set in the wild jungles of Africa, the left-of-center storyline is original and most unique (strokes to Noel Marshall for that). The filming is nothing short of awesome, the shots of merely the scenery are spectacular, and capturing on film the animals in action (including the humans) makes for some seriously breathtaking visuals. Tippi, Melanie, John, Jerry, you totally rock--thank you and thanks to everyone involved in the making of "Roar" for enduring and seeing it through to the end so we can all now enjoy it.I highly recommend seeing "Roar" at least one time; if you're a lover of the feline, perhaps 9 times would do. Me-ow.
Mastur Batsler
What did I just watch? Adventure, horror, thriller? Well, it's all true. First they thought to make an adventure, but the script wasn't really working, most of the lion scenes were pure improvisation, and after it turned out to be a horror-thriller, not because you are afraid for the characters but for the actors themselves. I have never seen a movie where actors were so afraid but had to act as if they aren't. But you have to give them credit for the courage.Considering that the movie was mostly improvised mess, editing was done OK, still pretty bad by normal standards. They probably did a tone of b-tape, and it worked, seems a bit clunky, lots of added voices and sounds, lots of cutting in the middle of action, but still a decent job with material they had. Script is almost non existent, story is as simple as it gets: family came to visit their father, who lives with ferocious animals. And there is a side story, I don't know why they put that in the movie, it makes no sense and leads to nowhere, I guess it was because they wanted to involve characters from the beginning that had an awesome fight with the lions which was probably not even supposed to happen, but they kept on rolling (bandages on them throughout the movie are probably real). The most amazing scene was when the main actor comes running towards 4-5 lions and starts fighting them, they filmed that scene first, probably because if he got killed they could just say screw it we are canceling the production. You can tell that because even in the scenes before the fight the main character has a bandage on his hand that he hurt when fighting the lions.Most of the movie is characters running scared from the lions and lions run around in the surroundings lions normally aren't in. It is portrayed as something normal to live with a bunch of animals, but it's hard for audience to believe that because in just one day that tigers and lions lived in the house, they wrecked the bloody house to shreds. 4/10 just because the actors survived. What is next? "Hissss" an adventure in a beautiful eden with cobras.
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