Far Cry (2008)

Director:

Uwe Boll

Writers:

Michael Roesch (screenplay) &
Peter Scheerer (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

2 October 2008 (Germany)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Drama

Plot:

Two Seattle reporters investigate the deaths of mercenaries on an island off the coast of the Pacific Northwest.

Plot Keywords:

Island | Genetic Experimentation | Exploding Helicopter | Cult Favorite | Tropical Island

Cast

Til Schweiger	...	Jack Carver
Emmanuelle Vaugier	...	Valerie Cardinal
Natalia Avelon	...	Katja Chernov
Michael Paré	...	Paul Summers
Craig Fairbrass	...	Parker
Udo Kier	...	Dr. Lucas Krieger
Mike Dopud	...	Sgt. Ryder
Carrie Genzel	...	Tourist Laura
Anthony Bourdain	...	Scientist
Ralf Moeller	...	Max Cardinal
Michael Teigen	...	Mercenary Bridge
D. Harlan Cutshall	...	Mercenary Quinn
Scott Cooper	...	Young Reporter Brooks
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jay Brazeau	...	Ralph
Chris Coppola	...	Emillio - The Food-guy
Don S. Davis	...	General Roderick
Geoff Gustafson	...	Montgomery
Thomas Hanley	...	Mercenary
Jesse Kennedy	...	Mercenary
Kirk McMeekan	...	Vampire
Craig Skistimas	...	Scientist
Kimani Ray Smith	...	Machine gunner
Jamie Switch	...	Worker Steve
Gareth Von Kallenbach	...	Mercenary

MPAA:

Rated R for bloody violence.

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

Germany | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

Germany:16 | Australia:MA | UK:18 | Netherlands:16 | Singapore:M18 | South Korea:15 | New Zealand:R16 | USA:R (certificate #45630)

Filming Locations:

Deep Cove Marina, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Far Cry Productions

Goofs:

Continuity: While mercenaries chase down Valerie and Jack with boats, Parker's pistol is shown to be empty in close shot (slide is locked to back-position). In the next cut the weapon is reloaded again (slide is where it is supposed to), but in the next shot immediately after it the gun is empty again.

Quotes:

[from trailer]
Dr. Krieger: [From Trailer] You're just a simple boat man.
Jack Carver: I didn't say anything about being simple.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Guinness World Records - Die größten Weltrekorde: (#5.1)" (2008)

You need to know, what to expect

I went to see this film in the cinema with some friends of mine and we expected the movie to be complete trash. Since Uwe Boll is regarded the worst director ever, we expected to see a stupid, bad, ridiculous action movie with a story hardly good enough for a video game.

And this was, what we got.

This film will just make you laugh all the time. Not for actual jokes in the movie, but more for the ridiculous characters. Come on, a German ex-elite soldier making his living as a boat-captain in Canada, Meets the niece of another German ex-elite-soldier, who works for an evil, mad, German scientist who is trying to create the new Master-Race of biologically modified soldiers for the US-Military...in Canada. Then there are the stereotype Mercenary, the stereotype Soldiers and the stereotype Monsters.

Speaking of ridiculous characters, what exactly is Emilio's role in this film? Still, the action was surprisingly good and the movie all in all was very entertaining. If you want to see art, it's your own fault you didn't like the movie. But if you want to see a movie, too ridiculous to be taken serious, I promise you, you will be fine with "Far Cry"