The cover makes us believe that we will get to see psychotic sheep ripping people apart and the like. This is not even close to the truth. What we get is a "warning" tale about genetically engineered food (GE).
Our heroine, who is pregnant with an illegitimate child becomes concerned about the health of her child when GE corn is grown next door. Her concern starts with the sheep, which are starting to act violent. The source is, of course, a weed that grows under the corn. Yes you heard me...the corn is not the actual problem. The problem is of course this weed that has the corn has created. The movie uses techno-jargon to gives its science a real feel to it. Explaining out the real basic ideas of putting genes from other plants and animals into other plants and animals. While this science is essentially fledgling its worth pointing out that cross-breeding and cross-pollination has been occurring for centuries.
Now where this story steps away from traditional horror is when our heroine attempts to alert the community to the dangers of the contaminated meat that would come from lambs fed the weed. Officialy its suggested that the lambs that are fed the weeds are only used for wool, and the end of the film has the sheep being specifically fed the weed to increase their wool creation.
The people don't wish to except what she is saying, its scary. And it is scary but at the same time the film is a strong piece of propaganda being show to possibly unwitting viewers. This movie very strongly makes out GE foods to be extremely dangerous and doesn't in the least provide an idea of how to look into it if a viewer grows concerned from it.
That is part of the reason I give it a three, its an interesting movie at least. It catches the Erin Brokovitch feel though it lacks some of the reality of that film. The acting is reasonable even if the story is a bit lacking. I would suggest this film would be good for a film studies class about what you can use a film for, but its hardly a good film. Even for a b-film.
Our heroine, who is pregnant with an illegitimate child becomes concerned about the health of her child when GE corn is grown next door. Her concern starts with the sheep, which are starting to act violent. The source is, of course, a weed that grows under the corn. Yes you heard me...the corn is not the actual problem. The problem is of course this weed that has the corn has created. The movie uses techno-jargon to gives its science a real feel to it. Explaining out the real basic ideas of putting genes from other plants and animals into other plants and animals. While this science is essentially fledgling its worth pointing out that cross-breeding and cross-pollination has been occurring for centuries.
Now where this story steps away from traditional horror is when our heroine attempts to alert the community to the dangers of the contaminated meat that would come from lambs fed the weed. Officialy its suggested that the lambs that are fed the weeds are only used for wool, and the end of the film has the sheep being specifically fed the weed to increase their wool creation.
The people don't wish to except what she is saying, its scary. And it is scary but at the same time the film is a strong piece of propaganda being show to possibly unwitting viewers. This movie very strongly makes out GE foods to be extremely dangerous and doesn't in the least provide an idea of how to look into it if a viewer grows concerned from it.
That is part of the reason I give it a three, its an interesting movie at least. It catches the Erin Brokovitch feel though it lacks some of the reality of that film. The acting is reasonable even if the story is a bit lacking. I would suggest this film would be good for a film studies class about what you can use a film for, but its hardly a good film. Even for a b-film.