SoTrumpBelieve
Must See Movie...
MamaGravity
good back-story, and good acting
Sexyloutak
Absolutely the worst movie.
PiraBit
if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
jagault
I was very pleasantly surprised with this movie. The beginning was well acted, just like I would perceive, some kidding around, a big RV advertising the reality show, the trip into the woods. The sound track was very appropriate I felt, kind of a feeling of unease, yet real. Diamantopoulos, with the lead role, was great. Acting, for the most part, on his own, he did a masterful job of transitioning from a "reality show" actor, to a person knowing something was wrong, but not sure what. Then, finally, understanding what he was up against, his, and the world's, ultimate survival.
kingkitsch-80142
Actor Chris Diamantopoulos is a handsome guy. Viewers are made aware of this from the first minutes of this earnest, yet ultimately predictable exercise. Here, our intrepid male model is pretending to be a TV survivalist dropped in a remote Canadian wilderness filming a low-rent cable series about man vs nature. He has a satellite phone with which he calls his crew and "checks in" within hours of being set loose in a wilderness that's not really very remote, or wild. In one scene, while the director is attempting to ratchet up the tension about the "something" that ends up stalking the guy in the wild, you can see cars on a road behind him. Really. Not once can you actually believe he's out in the deep scary woods. Mr. Diamantopoulos has a very nice beard, which is sort of a character unto itself. Problem is, if this luxurious face-fur is unchecked by a razor for five days, shouldn't his neck beard fill in? This guy runs around in circles in the woods for five days dodging an alien that you figured out was the mystery chess player early on. The Beard remains trimmed, although no disposable razors are in sight. Sloppy film continuity ruins this small exercise, as do bad CG effects. Our lead actor really pulls out all the stops acting terrified, but suddenly has the presence of mind to scream "checkmate!!" at the alien he's just dispatched with a weird outboard motor attachment that was shown earlier in the movie. The director just couldn't help himself, so we get a snappy one-liner that was telegraphed way ahead of its utterance. One star for the Beard, one star for the human trap set by the alien (the only really scary thing seen here), and one star for the bunny who gets field stripped and eaten.
sneed-85033
This movie starts off interesting enough to keep you from turning it off, but quickly becomes unwatchable. The alone journey of one character was poorly written and the cgi at the end of the movie was so bad it makes you wonder why attempt this movie. I cannot fathom how one sits through this film and feels any type of satisfaction at the end.
thisseatofmars
Man Vs. is a Canadian horror movie that incorporates elements of found footage. It does this via its plot: Chris Diamantopoulos, who played Moe in the 2012 version of The Three Stooges (oh baby) has a reality TV show like Bear Grill-is-us (never seen it and can't be bothered to look up the actual spelling). He treks out into the wilderness and videos himself scraping the soot off of tree bark to use as toilet paper, foraging for nuts and berries, and hunting wascally wabbits. By and by he realizes that he's not alone in the woods and all that soot-scraping will not go to waste.It's a good movie except for its creature effects, which are CG. Have we learned nothing from Predator, you fools?! Makeup and animatronics always beat CG, always! (Whaps film with cane.) But the creature doesn't show up so often, so I guess it's kind of okay. Man Vs. is laptop-viewing quality on an insomnia night, yknowwhatimsayin? And it's Canadian, so ding-ding-ding A+ dood!
