TheLittleSongbird Review of Hybrid

Hybrid (2007 TV Movie)

Had a good idea to work from, but ends up being a big mess

[2/10 · 18 August 2012]

Hybrid did have a good idea going for it, but I was also dubious because it was a SyFy movie. Sadly, despite this idea my dubious expectations of Hybrid proved to be correct. While not among SyFy's worst or among the worst movies I've ever seen, Hybrid still managed to be a terrible movie. There are more cheaper-looking films out there, but that doesn't excuse Hybrid in any way. The camera work is choppy and spends too much often on someone or something, while the effects are very artificial. The music is not eerie at all, if anything it is obviously placed and too over-bearing, while the dialogue is stilted, the killings lacking suspense or genuine horror and the storytelling unsurprising and uninteresting. Not to mention with one too many ridiculous moments, the sequences with the baboons in the lab, the military actually leaving despite the hero character escaping through an open window(didn't know the military were this stupid) and the firing of the guns at nothing there were bad enough and the ending was contrived, but even worse was the idea of a man escaping the building after having wolf eyes, assaulting several people, walking around shirtless, biting a doctor's throat and killing a squad who try to apprehend him and then trying to make us think he is good when actually he is a psychopath. The characters have no likability or depth to them, and the acting especially from Tinsel Korey, who is another actress who looks beautiful but can't act. Cory Monteith is a little better, but doesn't pose enough of a threat. I also think for somebody coming out an operation that he looked too perfect. Overall, a big mess despite its initial potential. 2/10 Bethany Cox