Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

nottoddsklar One of the most original movies ever made. Also one of the funniest black comedies of all time. It's funny the same way Fargo is. In fact, if the Coen Brothers ever returned to their thriller roots, or made a straight up horror, this is the type of movie they might end up with.This AV Club blurb does a spot on job of conveying why this movie is so good.It may be hard to believe now, but once upon a time — call it the late Nineties — a major movie studio sunk $12 million into a comedic western about 19th century soldiers who believed eating other humans endow folks with superhuman strength and the ability to recover from life- threatening injuries. When shooting on the film crashed to a halt after three weeks of interference and executive micromanaging, one of the suits at at 20th Century Fox hit upon an idea: fire director Milcho Manchevski — the Macedonian art house sensation whose devastating wartime romance Before the Rain was nominated for an Oscar — and replace him with Raja Gosnell, whose only feature credit to date was Home Alone 3. Shockingly, it didn't work out.The cast, lead by Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle (fresh off his BAFTA-winning performance in The Full Monty), rejected Gosnell like a body denying a transplanted heart, and Ziskin's filmmaker of choice returned to the comforts of his wheelhouse in Los Angeles, where he would promptly get to work on Never Been Kissed. Carlyle eventually pressured Fox into filling the director's chair with his trusted collaborator, Antonia Bird, a veteran of British TV whose best known feature on these shores was Priest, about a closeted man of the cloth. It did not sound like an ideal match- up. Shockingly, it turned out great.Ravenous is a film that, by design, was forced to thread the needle between three different genres, a challenge that few directors have the finesse to overcome under normal circumstances — let alone on a project that had more cooks in the kitchen than it did carnivores on screen. Kicking off with the twang of a banjo that might not have been tuned since 1846, this Mulligan's stew of a movie walks such a fine line between bleak comedy ("He was licking me!"), hyper- violent survival drama, and supernatural creature-feature that the guy narrating the trailer seems to have no idea what he's actually selling. Advertising lies all the time, but seldom is it so confused: "One man must choose between having dinner, and being dinner…" (You wait for him to follow that oddly jokey declaration up with "I guess?") Audiences of the time can hardly be blamed for not being sold.But while many studio boondoggles betray the messiness of their making (Fantastic Four, anyone?), this ragged, unsung 1999 gem was one of the very few that was able to feed off the chaos. An origin story about the American spirit, the film is a lot like America itself: a melting pot of disparate elements, thrown together in a fit of violence, and galvanized by the righteous illusion that this is how God intended it to be.Subtlety is not on the menu here, and it's easy to imagine how the bluntness of the script by Ted Griffin (Ocean's 11) helped it weather the constant assault of studio notes and creative upheaval. The story begins by introducing us to Second Lieutenant John Boyd (Guy Pearce), a Mexican- American War vet who's being promoted to Captain after killing an entire unit of enemy soldiers on their own turf. The problem is that, after playing dead and being stacked in a heap of corpses, our hero was only capable of such battlefield bravery because of an unsettling jolt of strength — which he got from drinking trickling-down blood. Boyd is now nauseated at the sight of raw meat; he pukes behind a tent after a celebratory banquet as the title card flashes on screen. Laughs are usually the first things that get lost when a movie is Frankensteined together, but the film's sick sense of humor remained intact.Surprisingly, a story that rubs our faces in America's ongoing history of cannibalism (cultural, commercial, or otherwise) is always going to be a tough sell in a country that still celebrates Columbus Day. Ravenous bombed at the box office, grossing $10 million less than it cost to make and anticipating a climate where a film like this would be lucky to premiere at Fantastic Fest in advance of a straight-to-VOD release. Perhaps that's for the best. A major studio trying to wrangle something so bloodthirsty and off-kilter is like a child trying to raise a feral hyena — it's too wild to tame, and it's always laughing at you for trying.But maybe this movie isn't quite as bleak as it appeared at the time; maybe this is just a case of not being able to see the forest for the trees. For all of its nihilism, this perverse take on the weird, weird West digs so deep into the darkness that it eventually shines a light out through other side. Like Colqhoun, it knows that we have to face the truth — and like Boyd, it knows that doesn't mean we have to live with it. To quote the film's opening title card, it's never too late to say "Eat me."

Svantje Baker There are two ways you can watch this. You either expect a spooky film with cannibals or a film with the embodiment of courage, fear, and bravery. There is definitely a stronger, deeper meaning to it that most people overlook... If you're expecting a war film or a horror, I think you will be pleasantly surprised. It's so unique and distinct... it's just a fresh dose of...something. I adore the film so much and the nostalgia it holds, I have a quote from it tattoo'd on me. If you want to know the quote, I will put it at the very end of my review with a spoiler warning. Back on topic...If you allow yourself be absorbed, there are some scenes that definitely arouse panic and curiosity... I don't think there could have been any better actors for this film. Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle collide in this movie like PB&J! Another thing, the soundtrack is absolutely ASTOUNDING. A mixture of folk, bluegrass, and classical. Some songs are triumphant and it always brings a tear to my eye. The music FOR SURE enhances the experience. (NON SPOILER) For the negative things I have to say, there are a good amount blunders and factual errors. I won't give any spoilers out, you'll have to watch it yourself (maybe multiple times to notice the mistakes). It would be a 10/10 but I give this a film a 8/10 because of it's mistakes and because I personally feel it would have been better if it was a Spaghetti Western AND because I feel like some of the actors (David Arquette, Guy Pearce, and Jeffrey Jones to be specific) could have done a better job... I know earlier, I stated, "I don't think there could have been any better actors," ...That still rings true, but the acting itself... these men performed exceptionally well, but don't act vicariously in their roles as authoritative figures... If that didn't make sense, here's another way to explain... MINOR SPOILERS...I don't believe a realistic colonel would act as goofy/lighthearted as Colonel Hart did. And I don't believe a realistic private would act like a jerk fresh out of boot camp (Private Reich). Other than that, I am emotionally attached to this dainty film... It's very precious to me... SPOILER..."Morality; the last bastion of a coward."

GL84 Arriving at a secluded forest-bound fort, an Army Officer joins the present company investigating a stranger's tale of cannibalism and learns their charge is a ravenous cannibal out trying to eat the remaining troops.Overall this one was quite a disappointment. One of the biggest problems with this one is the main villain himself, who is presented as such a completely unimposing physical presence that he could very easily be physically overpowered that his rants and raving don't really hold that much weight to them. On top of all that, he seems so twitchy and paranoid that there's very little reason to believe anything he's saying, and the tent encounter on the trek up to the trail should've been another giveaway of his true intentions. Likewise, there's one big problem here in the film asking us to take the side of someone of such reprehensible mortality and ethics by presenting him as the good-natured hero of the piece for all his time spent doling out those speeches and painting in a good light throughout which is really distressing. On top of the problems with him, the film is just plodding and dull during the latter half here which really tends to lower this one by featuring such bland scenes of the two slaughtering through the reserves on the base only to turn it into a philosophical battle about the morality of what they're doing rather than actively doing anything interesting as they're along at the fort, the perfect opportunity to engage in some rather than getting involved with some nice action. There's enough wrong here with all these factors for it to override the few good parts here. The main one is the initial recovery of the stranger and the subsequent expedition sent out based on his story, which has a lot of intriguing elements and lots of action the story is certainly chilling and sends them out in the woods appropriately, the journey there is fine and the darker path it takes following the revelations in the cave lead to the extended, thrilling chase scenes through the woods where they get face- to-face in several rather enjoyable encounters. The only other enjoyable facet here is the extremely fun, brutal and drawn-out finale confrontation where the bloodied combatants brawl throughout the fort which is quite an enjoyable and exciting scene that's more action-packed than anything else in the film, but is not enough to help this against the flaws.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language, Brief rear Nudity, strong themes of cannibalism and mild drug use.

avidengine Before watching Ravenous, it probably helps for you to know that the impression of this film given by marketing is inaccurate. It appears to be a horror and a thriller but, while it does contain some guts and suspense, the film is much more than a generic horror. Ravenous has elements of adventure and some black comedy in quirky moments, more so in the first half, and thrills that are more-so concept and emotionally based rather than cheap adrenalin. The point is that it's a bad idea going into this film because you heard it was a picking-off-the-victims "gore-fest".The film begins with events following soon after the Mexican-American War where Second Lieutenant (John) Boyd (Guy Pearce) is struggling after letting his unit down while they are massacred. He stumbled into the Mexican headquarters and, in a bout of bravery, managed to capture enemy command from within. He is haunted by images and flashbacks of the mass of deaths and aggression he has witnessed. Boyd is promoted to Captain for his heroism, but his commanding officer discovers the cowardly truth of this victory. Boyd is exiled to Fort Spencer in the Sierra Nevada. Boyd settles in with 7 interesting residents of Fort Spencer. Soon they're all introduced to a man who shows up in the night weak and injured. He proceeds to explain to them a disturbing account of his group turning to cannibalism having him flee in fear of his life and the Spencer team setting off with him venturing back in obligation to the cave which he has fled to save a woman he admits he has left alone in danger.Apart from the events that take place in the film, the situation John Boyd finds himself in is a reflection of honest morality with a front focus on temptation and the will power not to give in. It is really a matter of opinion whether this is appealing, which is is for me, but it really doesn't hurt for one to open their mind.Ravenous can get you to think if you let it do so.