It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This 'epic' follows four students who decide to go on a road trip after recently graduating. They trespass into a gated off park for some off road fun but early into their adventure things start to go wrong as they crash their Jeep into a tree accidentally hitting a bear cub in the process.Now as we all know grizzly bears tend to stick close by to their cubs and so it is not long before momma bear shows up and starts hunting them down (in your standard bear with a blood vendetta scenario) as they flee the scene of the crime. And just to make it all that better, this is no ordinary bear, O no, but rather a mutated super grizzly bear from all the toxic waste that has been dumped into the lake nearby.The acting is poor with weak performances not doing much for the script that would have needed some world class Hollywood stars to make me even think about evoking some emotions. The award for the best performance has to go to the bear who most of the time did look genuinely p*ssed off, as would I if I had to take part in this movie.I wouldn't say it was a redeeming feature by a long shot but the cinematography isn't half as bad as it could have been (for one of the scenes at least) when compared to what the rest of the movie was offering.Even better though is the fact that the movie is trying to take itself seriously but fails on every level to do so. Call me cold hearted but I was laughing all the way through the 'horrifying bear scenes' as the graduates were outsmarted again and again. It doesn't take long before you end up siding with the bear and are egging it on to get the next one.Whoever thought that a grizzly would make for a good terrifying enemy in a movie certainly didn't think long and hard about it- being a massive and potentially dangerous animal in real life, there is not one point in the entire movie when bear and actor are in the same shot. This leads to some quite appalling and certainly comical scenes where the film makers use obviously fake props, stock footage and shockingly bad blood CGI (I'm talking Playstation 1 standard here) to bring the bear to life. My favourite scene had to be the guy in a bear costume; and you could tell, jumping on their Jeep while they are trapped inside!Apart from those moments of unintentional comic brilliance I would rather take my chances in the movie along with the bear as then I would one, not have to watch it and two, could hope to be knocked off nice and early so I didn't have to ever think about this again. Why not a zero rating you ask? Well because you can't and I've seen worse.For further reviews feel free to check out: http://www.fanaticalaboutfilms.com

Grizzly Rage starts as four young high school friends Lauren (Kate Todd), Wes (Tyler Hoechlin), Sean (Graham Kosakoski) & Rich (Brody harms) embark on a celebratory 4x4 off road drive through some woods but decide to do their thing on private property. While racing around the woods in their 4x4 jeep they accidentally hit & kill a young Grizzly Bear cub & crash their jeep in the process, idiots. Lauren is gutted about the Grizzly Bear but what the hell, then suddenly the four friends find out that the young (dead) Bear's mother is around & very angry at the four friends for killing her kid & sets out to kill them all in a Grizzly rage...Apparently also known as Off Road in Canada this awful Sci-Fi Channel 'Creature Feature' was directed by the generally untalented low budget film auteur David DeCoteau (despite having nearly 80 directorial credits to his name you can count his good films on one hand) & is as bad as all the IMDb user comments & the low 2.5 IMDb user rating would suggest. Part of the 'Man Eater' series my heart sank as soon as I saw Robert Halmi Sr. & Jr.'s names on the credits as they are responsible for many an awful tame made-for-telly creature feature of the most routine kind. Grizzly Rage lacks any excitement, pace, tension or decent set-pieces & the four main character's are all idiots. There's one scene in particular that stunned me, it's just after the first attack when Rich is killed & as Wes drives the jeep away next to a sheer drop & Sean grabs the steering wheel & they have a struggle which sends the jeep over the edge of the small cliff & causing themselves all sorts of problems. It's just such a stupid scene that makes no sense & after Wes & Sean don't even argue about it, no offense but I would have killed Sean myself. Then there's the ending which feels like it has five minutes missing & a plot that doesn't make any sense with the main character's splitting up (when Sean decides to run for help why didn't all three just go?) & at the end when they have the killer Bear trapped they hold hands & walk away very, very slowly (running would be a good idea at that point, no?) & for some strange reason a local lake is full of toxic waste barrels which is mentioned & seen but never comes to anything & is totally forgotten about almost as soon as they are introduced. At 85 odd minutes Grizzly Rage is a real chore to sit through & some of the dialogue is awful too with Lauren's confession about hitting a neighbour's car both funny & somewhat pointless. The list of things wrong with Grizzly Rage is never ending & it's the sort of film you could pick holes in all day long, as bad as Sci-Fi Channel 'Creature Features' go & believe me they can be bad.Another huge problem with Grizzly Rage is that the suppose threat just comes across as really tame, the Bear never really does anything other than stand on it's hind legs & there's this obviously dubbed roaring noise even though you can clearly see the Bear is just not angry or aggressive. When it attacks Lauren & Wes in the jeep instead of turning it over why doesn't it stick it's arms inside the clearly broken windows & slash them with it's claws? The film introduces a random run down house (character's in these types of films always find a random run down house don't they?) that looks like it belongs in Wrong Turn (2003) or something & since DeCoteau like to fill his films with homo-erotic vibes (out of four main character's three of them are young fit blokes & only one lady) the leading man at the end takes all his clothes off expect his boxer shorts for reasons that are flimsy at best. There's zero gore either, there are a few CGI blood splatters but nothing else. Talking of CGI Grizzly rage is maybe the only modern 'Creature Feature' I have seen not to use any for it's main threat, in this case either a real Bear was used or a guy in a bad Bear suit.With a supposed budget of about $2,000,000 I can't see where the money went, shot on location in Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada the music is awful as is the whole production. The acting is pretty bad, the cast try but they just come across as looking silly.Grizzly rage is the sort of Sci-Fi Channel 'Creature Feature' that typifies everything bad about the genre, this is just awful in every regard really & the overall negative comments from people here on the IMDb are wholly justified here. Watch the original killer Grizzly Bear flick Grizzly (1976) instead.

What would life be like without an occasional rotten movie? The title tells all in this weak variation of the vintage 1977 killer whale movie "Orca" about a whale that wreaks vengeance on the fishermen that destroyed its mate and baby. In the lackluster "Grizzly Rage," four obnoxious teenagers recklessly careening through the woods strike a grizzly bear cub accidentally and kill the little fellow. No, the filmmakers don't show the cub getting clipped. Only after they have smashed headlong into a tree and done permanent damage to their 4X4 Jeep Cherokee do they discover the critter. Surprise, surprise, the cute girl, Lauren Findley(Kate Todd of "Saving God")cannot get a strong enough signal on her cell phone to summon help. Actually, she objected to their thoughtless plans. Specifically, the guys used the winch to break a chain and trespass onto private property deep in the middle of nowhere littered with ominous looking barrels that would appear more appropriate in a toxic waste dump. The producers never connect the dots here about the toxic waste dump and the bear. Suddenly, an angry momma bear emerges and comes after them. I gave this movie one star because they rely on the old, stand-by suspense scene where the vehicle refuses to crank until the last second.Director David Decoteau, who has helmed such low-budget schlock as "Sorority Babes in the Slimball Bowl-O-Rama" as well as "Frankenstein & The Werewolf Reborn," is up to his usual nonsense. Basically, this rarely scary horror chiller boasts three dudes, a sexy babe and a hulking she-bear (a male named Koda) in the forest. Decoteau shows the bear howling, walking on all fours and then rearing up on its back legs, but you rarely see anything but the wrecked vehicle in the same shot with the critter. When the bear is merely stalking her prey, Decoteau provides us with a slightly wide-angled 'bear cam' perspective like they do for the human killer in a stalker movie. When the momma bear does attack, all we see are its paws and claws in close-up. Nevertheless, you know that those belong to a man in a bear costume.Not only do these teenagers lack a shred of sympathy, but they also have no common sense. After their Jeep overheats, they separate and wander off into the woods searching for water to cool their vehicle off. Meanwhile, you find yourself rooting for the bear. Unfortunately, this carnivorous bear takes its time showing up and possesses little personality. Of course, the momma bear eats them all. The first casualty--Ritch Petroski (Brody Harms of "Adam & Evil")occurs about 20 minutes into the action, and the shook-up survivors tear off in their Jeep and then have second thoughts about leaving their poor mauled friend behind. They wreck their Jeep again, rolling it down an incline, but manage to recover despite some injuries to themselves. One of them decides to pull on his jogging shoes and run for help. Guess who he runs into? Guess what you'll get watching this half-baked epic? No, no bears or bear cubs were harmed in the making of this forgettable film. Where was Daniel Boone when these kids needed him?

Three words: grizzly bears are awesome. I was serious when I said this is the best movie I have ever seen. None can rival it. It makes Shindler's List look like a flop. So often people misconstrue the true nature of an angry grizzly mother. Seriously. Even if it would send you into bankruptcy, you NEED to purchase the 8-disc DVD set with over 246 hours of special features. It's amazing that only $15 million was spent on this fantastic 13 out of 10 star film. Say goodbye to fame, Steven Spielberg, David DeCoteau is the new king of directing.Now that I'm finished talking about how fantastic this movie is, I'll tell you why.1. You should have known the entire time that the grizzly would win. They can fly, for crying out loud, and they can shoot quills at you. 2. GRIZZLY RAGE 3. It has some of the most brilliant dialogue ever conceived. For example, "What's a bear doing all the way out here...?" (they're in a forest). 4. The only thing more dangerous than an angry mama grizzly is a space grizzly. 5. It had the best ending of any movie. Ever. Period. Semicolon. Exclamation mark.Simply put:GRIZZLY RAGE!