5/5 Love it!!!
  by pjthepanda
When I got this movie I didn't really know what to expect, I mean what the heck is a Wyvern?! I watched and was hooked instantly. I love this movie, it's awesome. It is the best maneater movie I've watched by far. My mother wasn't really impressed she isn't that into unrealistic things but she sat through the entire movie which is rare so I'd have to say this movie rates a 5 for sure, I'd rate a 10 if I could, great movie!

1/5 A dragon movie that was draggin for 90 minutes..
  by D. Steigman (USA)
To me this was nothing special, just your run of the mill Sy FY Channel direct to DVD movie with a CGI dragon. It is the same formula as most of their recent releases like Sea Beast. Monster eats people. Lots of gore & bodies being ripped apart. The obligatory scene of someone vomiting in front of the camera after seeing some people ripped to shreds. The average acting. If you are into these type of movies than you will like it, but for those of us that want something better than CGI dragons on a SY FY channel budget , you better seek elsewhere. I watched it out of curiosity. Next time Ill know better...
Wyvern is a species of dragon that invades Alaska & lays eggs and its up to the apparent population of 20 to save them. CGI dragons arent all that thrilling & the cast was negligible,including a weak love triangle that never really developed.
I cant really say much else other than it just wasn't all that good & made me want to watch something from the Bert I Gordon / Roger Corman 50s B monster movies. At least those low budgeters were fun and entertaining if nothing else.
The only good thing in this movie : The hot lady who played the radio DJ..she was beautiful ! It couldnt save the movie unfortunately
And for the record , I wasn't able to see Russia from Alaska either

5/5 Definitely worth waiting for!
  by Bakuryuu Tyranno (England)
Just recently I'd re-watched a movie I thought was a good version of the usual Sci-Fi Channel formula, even more recently I've seen a creature feature with a storyline that surpasses that formula completely! I think the best I could do to summarize the feel of this movie is to say that if other Sci-Fi Channel movies were originally novels the channel had dumbed down to make adaptations of, Wyvern would be a faithful adaptation

UPDATE: Okay, now I have a good movie comparison. I'd say it's less like the average Sci-Fi Channel movie than it is like Lake Placid or maybe Tremors. Slower pace, charismatic oddball characters etc.

Comparatively, I think the CGI is better than the flying creatures from Tremors 3 and possibly a bit worse than Lake Placid though I'm not overly familiar with that one. Needless to say its better than what you'd expect from a TV movie.

So the title creature... its actually pretty good. The wyvern's anatomy is pretty good( I've had the misfortune of seeing some movies with silly-looking dragons recently, two of which had the heads of species of reptiles that just looked out of place).

Also we get gore effects in which the blood actually behaves like blood (not common for this channel) and when vehicles are damaged it looks a lot better than the obvious CGI model tumbling cars we normally get in low-budget, er... everything.

A lot of the characters have unusual quirks. They also react a lot more realistically to seeing people killed than the characters of most Sci-Fi Channel movies... or for that matter, most modern horror movies (let's face it; in most horror movies, even if people care before a character dies, they forget pretty quickly when that character dies)

Most importantly, though, this movie is very story-based and a lot of the deaths take place offscreen. If your idea of a good horror movie involves seeing lots of people slaughtered onscreen, I think you'd enjoy it a lot less.

1/5 Guess I'm not a fan of SyFy films
  by D. Sippel (Chicago, IL United States)
Based on the 5 star reviews here, Wyvern jumped to the top of my queue. I can't say that I've ever managed to sit through a SyFy produced film all the way through, but the raves for Wyvern had me sold that this was better than the rest. Far from great, I found the acting rather perfunctory, and I just couldn't suspend disbelief on the CGI wyvern. Some of the scenery shots are magnificent, but when I'm more interested in looking at the trees than following the story, that doesn't speak well of the film.

Sorry folks, but I thought the current 5 star rating misleading. Fans of SyFy channel films obviously love this one, but as a fan of straight to DVD low budget horror, besides a few unintentional laugh out loud moments (and some lovely scenery shots), I was bored throughout.

5/5 Just when I thought Sea Beast was the best in this series.............
  by new yorker (NYC)
................along comes Wyvern. Oddly it has one of the worst package illustrations. Do not judge this book ...er DVD by it's cover.This Dragon is one of SyFy's most realistic looking creatures to date. Yes, it's still a genre pic . Yes, it has elements of Jaws but as these movies go it's up at the top of the heap. Highly recommended for creature feature fans.