Remember that movie The Animal that starred Deuce Bigelow Male Gigolo and that mildly cute girl from the first Survivor? He was a security guard or something and he was horribly injured so a mad scientist transplanted animal organs into his body and he got their powers? Well this is just like that except unlike The Animal it's not even accidentally funny, but the acting is better and it's somehow more believable.Basically Justine Bateman helps a dude out by replacing his damaged eyes with wolf eyeballs. This obviously leads to him developing wolf powers, like night vision, which is cool at first, until the more undesirable wolf traits start to manifest themselves, like growling, snarling, a thirst for human blood and butt-scooting across the living room carpet. This one's not bad and manages to add a twist to the werewolf mythology.

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

When the operator of security cameras of the Olaris Corporation Aaron Scates (Cory Monteith) watches one of his colleague trapped in a fire, he saves him but burns his eyes becoming blinded. Dr. Andrea Hewlitt (Justine Bateman), who is ahead of a secret research of eye transplant, decides to use Aaron as a human subject of her experiments, successfully transplanting the eyes of a wolf found wounded by the half French half American Indian Lydia (Tinsel Korey), restoring his vision. However, Aaron changes his behavior and abilities, as if he were dominated by the spirit of the wild wolf. Lydia helps Aaron to escape from the facility and go to the woods while the government troops chase him."Hybrid" is a weird little movie with a quite original story. Unfortunately and probably due to the restraint budget, something is missing to make "Hybrid" a good movie. The unknown Cory Monteith shows a great physical shape but the plot does not work well and in the end this film is a forgettable entertainment. My vote is five.Title (Brazil): "Olhos Selvagens" ("Wild Eyes")

I liked it.I think it's rather important to attempt to look out through the eyes of other species on the planet, many of which we slaughter, imprison and use in painful experiments.If the movie is low budget, I think the importance of the message can be taken into consideration.Running about with wolves looks pretty pleasant to those of us who work hunched over a desk much of the time. Running through the woods. Yeah.Wolves are cool, and they help ecosystems in countless ways, such as reducing predators that overgraze plant species in which birds nest. Prey carcases increase insects which feed small mammals including beaver which affect the water systems that support frogs, the fish that sustain bears and so forth.The lead was personable, the love interest attractive with her heart in the right place, and burning a braid of sweet grass with a medicine man is a fine thing. I liked the touches of light hearted humor.The movie was also about violence. The wolves' violence was to defend themselves, family and offspring. Bison were killed for survival. The shooters' killings, by contrast seemed purposeless. They seemed out of touch with nature outside and within themselves. Another way of saying that corporate people need to get back to what's important and reconnect with the natural world.I'd like to see the sci fi channel air more movies like this. Rather than feeling down and empty after watching nonsensical gore following a lot of hype which mainly serves to keep more of our eyes glazed on advertisers' shiny mirages no matter how good the special effects can be, we can go back to our lives feeling far better and even a bit optimistic. I think that's what entertainment is for.