Review of Razorback

Razorback (1984)
2/10
Difficulty of making a Robot do the Acting
16 December 2013
Warning: Spoilers
From the title of this move, you might suspect that it takes place in Arkansas in the Ozarks. But no, this movie takes place in Australia, and American actor Gregory Harrison plays the lead.

The production of this move is not bad. Movie captures the atmosphere of Australian outback pretty well. But as the movie progressed, I started to hate this movie more and more. Why ? because the movie is not much about the razorback, but stupid humans trying to kill each other.

It's well known by now, that using a robot animal to play a convincing role in a movie is pretty difficult from experience of director Steven Spielberg's "JAWS". So what happens in these lower budget animal horror flicks is that you hardly ever see the actual creature. And even when it appears, it's a dodgy shot in darkness with small part of animal shown or just the shadow of it is shown moving around.

Unfortunately this movie falls right into this category.

So there's not much meat to the story, and lot of fillers. Less than 1 minutes, of the actual hog is seen in this movie. Too bad because this movie had pretty good production to it.
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