Hyena Road Reviews

This has been sitting on my Netflix queue for awhile and I typically like war movies. I just wasn't too excited because of the runtime and that it didn't have too many known faces. I mean it has a Sutherland brother, but he is one of the least known. Anyways Netflix was going to take it off my queue so I just went ahead and decided to check it out. It's written and directed by Paul Gross who I've never heard of before.

Well it wasn't bad. In fact the writing and directing was okay. The action infrequent for a war movie was even pretty good and intense. Where this movie fails at though is the acting and length. It's really way too long for a movie with actors not many people would recognize. Let alone the acting is pretty bad at times. Some scenes linger too much or are unnecessary for the story. Also I feel like part of the plot is extremely similar to that of Lone Survivor which was a much better movie. Although the outcome of these two films are vastly different. I didn't see the ending for this coming which was good.

It's not a bad film though it needed better acting and a time cut. The action when it happens is good. The characters are at least likable. Some may find this a bit boring for a war movie and I would agree until the final battle happens. That's when things really got interesting. For that it's worth checking out, but the rest is just plain skippable.