There’s no way around it - Be it shredded, sliced, creamed, melted, grilled, or, yes, toasted, Cry Wolf is most positively cheese – but, and like a thin slice too close to the toaster, it starts to stick after a while. No-frills
filmmaking in the truest sense of the world – not surprising
considering it’s the result of a filmmaking competition, much
like Project Greenlight, that rewards its most talented entrant a movie deal – Wolf is a starless (well, the most familiar faces are TV regulars Jared ‘Supernatural’ Padalecki and Gary ‘American Gothic’
Cole, as well as rocker Jon Bon Jovi, miscast as a puzzling computer
teacher) horror horse around that’s got a lot more going for it
than it’s vanilla-sounding synopsis and vacation video-style
production values might at first have you perceive. First and foremost,
it has quite a clever script. Here’s the gist: A young
British lad (Julian Morris), apparently a bit of a troublemaker,
arrives at a preppy American school where he almost instantly strikes
up a bond with a spunky redhead named Dodger (Lindy Booth). Through
her, he learns of both the recent murder of a young girl in the woods,
and a juvenile game that her circle of friends participates in - where
people have to guess who’s lying. In a convoluted series of lefts
and rights, both the murder and the game amalgamate. With a bit
of a dialogue polish, and possibly some bigger, more credible stars to
help make the film just that little bit more convincing – some of
the folks here would be lucky to get a job reading an auto prompter on
late night infomercials, they’re that stilted and incredulous
– Cry Wolf could have been quite the film. At
the same time, the filmmakers have done wonders for their small budget,
and one wonders whether Hollywood could’ve made a better film if
it had spent another $100 million on it. The most promising members of
the production though are writers Wadlow and Beau Bauman, whose script
is not only unique, but also very imaginative and appreciably full of
surprises. They need to work on their dialogue a bit – so much of
it seems to be left over from bad late-night 80’s TV – but
on the whole, they’re a team to definitely watch. Cry Wolf
is far from the howler one thought it’d be, and though its bite
is a little blunt, once its teeth sinks into you – mind you,
you’ve got to stay with it for a bit until it does–
you’ll be hard-pressed escaping from it’s grapple. EXTRAS Not
to bad here. Generally featurrettes are rather puffy, but here there
are a couple of corkers included "Manual Labour: The Short Film That
Helped The Filmmakers Win The Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival"
and "Wolves, Sheep & Shepherds: Casting The Roles". There are also cast interviews, but let's face it, we don't know who they are anyway - so it it really worth it? Conclusion:
Movie 50% Extras: 50% 
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