5/5 Scarry-action
  by Calvin J. Ramsey (hartsville,tn)
A movie like as to "The Pack" and "Kujo" all in one.Don't know if all members of the family can watch it though.Has a lot of attack scenes by the dogs..Will keep you on the edge of your seat for sure.
Anything but a Lassie movie..Except for the amazing intelligence of the dogs.

3/5 bad doggies
  by B. E Jackson (Pennsylvania)
Well, the Breed is probably not THAT great because the movie is basically another "kill all the teenagers one by one" kind of horror film which is not much different from any number of slasher films out there.

One thing that's pretty funny to me is that, when the dogs were attacking the teens, many times you can tell the dogs were happy while supposedly tearing people apart. The film directors should have cut away any scenes that showed the dogs wagging their tails because it seems really silly watching killer dogs wag their tail as they tear apart their delicious victims (and yes, I KNOW in reality quite often it appears like dogs are wagging their tails when they're actually eating at a dead body, but come on, the dogs in this movie are clearly happy).

I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting pretty tired of generic horror movies starting off by showing teens partying and having fun. It's such a boring, typical way to start a movie and it's *really* starting to get on my nerves.

As for the story itself, well...

mutated dogs vicious enough to bring down a human being weren't *quite* as vicious as you're led to believe. The dogs are actually normal-sized, very ordinary looking dogs. They should have been created MUCH bigger and badder than they ended up. They still pack a mean punch despite their regular size however.

The film contains a respectable amount of action and suspense, though you have to wait a good 30 minutes for things to pick up.

Overall, extremely dangerous dogs located on some island in the middle of nowhere while teens try to find a way to escape is a nice storyline, though the film had some funny moments as well such as one scene where the teens throw a dead dog outside in the yard of their cabin, a pack of wild dogs come up and start eating the dead mut, and the teens hurry back inside. The teens really didn't NEED to hurry back inside during this particular moment since the vicious dogs were distracted by the dead dog. Also, the one teen that kept tripping over everything in the dark was clumsy as heck, and yet, he was laughing about it the entire time. Come on, there's NOTHING to laugh about when hungry dogs are outside waiting to kill you. And the girl who had these amazing athletic skills by flipping over cars and flipping up and down houses and barns like Spiderman to escape the dogs was supposed to be believable? No way!

Overall, I like the movie.

5/5 This may be Wes Craven's best film ever
  by Ted E. Kissel (Greencastle IN)
OK, first off I would like to say that usually I'm not the biggest Wes Craven fan. I never have thought his PG-13 horror films were worth much of anything and before this film the only good movie I ever thought Wes Craven ever directed/produced that well were the Night Mare On Elm Street films, the one series of movies I was told were scarier then anything else when I was little. But this film was a really good movie, it was well worth the $7.50 I payed for it at Family Video. The monsters in this movie were not only well developed, but also believable and the picture and sound quality of the film was done exceptionally well. And I would also say that it was scarier then most of the Night Mare On Elm Street Films.

4/5 Where's the Dog Whisperer when you need him?
  by Jason (Backwater, Alabama)
Not since Cujo has man's best friend become his worst enemy. Whereas the previous attacks were caused by rabies, this time around it's the result of genetic engineering gone wrong.

A group of young friends make their way to an isolated island where they expect to spend a wild time full of drinking, partying, and debauchery. What they find instead is a large pack of vicious dogs protecting their island; or, as one character put it, "scary-a@# lassies" looking for food. Although, one scene in which dogs are swimming after a person is completely hilarious, because we all know that in the water, human is far superior. It would have just been a matter of holding breath, and drowning a few dogs. As for real plot, it's simply Darwinian, survival of the fittest.

I'm sure there is a morality lesson about playing God in there somewhere, but I didn't care and I hardly noticed.

With nice special effects, production, cinematography, and pretty fair acting, it's what one would expect from a Wes Craven production. The acting is particularly astute (especially the four-legged actors), and aside from Michelle Rodriguez, the cast is comprised of pretty good young actors who we've all seen before, but can't name. Actually, the thing that's great about Rodriguez is crystal clear in this movie. Even as a leading lady, she can't shake the "tough" chick persona. I was waiting for her to snap a dog's spine over her knee during the entire movie.

It has typical horror elements, like the moron who descends into the basement towards his demise - in this case genetically engineered, mutant dogs with a taste for human flesh - is waiting in the dark. At times the idiocy makes you want to scream at the screen, "Climb a tree genius!" Thankfully, however, the "black guy dies first"-rule isn't followed until Noah (Hill Harper) provides some laughs with funny one-liners like "crazy-a&* old yellers". Given the concept, it's more advanced than one would think, with one great scene where the dogs make their eventual assault on the cabin - straight from a classic zombie movie. The story and character development is crisp, creating just enough empathy for the characters and their predicament, however unreal it may be.

I recommend this highly for horror fans, and only mildly for others.

3/5 Down boy.Good dog.
  by Movie Dude (Alabama)
A group of friends get together on an island.The island houses a facility where genetic research was done on dogs.Dogs + genetic tampering = cranky(very smart)dogs who resent human intrusion on their island.Wacky puppy play ensues.

The characters are believable and the acting is good.They react pretty much as I would(except none of them soil themselves),and try some very inventive yet logical ways to evade and escape the dogs.Not all of them make it of course.Michelle Rodriguez(The Fast and The Furious,Blue Crush,Swat,Resident Evil and Lost,to name a few)is the best known of the actors to me,but they all play their parts perfectly.They come off as a group of friends who have known each other a long time and care for one another.And that makes me care what happens to them.

The FX are top notch all the way.No silly CGI monster dogs.There is some gore,but it is not overdone.The dog attacks look realistic and brutal.While filming one attack,Michelle Rodriguez was actually bitten(not badly).She did a lot of her own stunts here.

This is a good entry in the "When Animals Attack" genre of horror films,so give it a look.