Hollywood Safari

PM Entertainment made a name for itself with its well-crafted action movies, though they dabbled in other genres occasionally, including family movies. After having seen several of their family movies, including this one, it's pretty clear why these movies have faded into obscurity. Although it advertises itself as a family movie, there are many touches that will disturb some children, such as a cougar attack on a youngster and some surprising hand-to-hand violence near the end. Even the opening credits, with its somber feeling, may bewilder kids! But even without these dubious touches, the movie would still be tough going. The performances are awful, and viewers tuning in to see Don Wilson will be bewildered why he's so prominently billed when he barely appears in the movie. (And does absolutely no martial arts!) It doesn't help that the characters these actors play are pretty stupid, particularly one police officer who breaks conduct so many times that he'd be fired in real life. His character is also mean-spirited, which is how much of the rest of the movie feels like. Add low-rent production values, including photography that makes the entire movie look dull and muddy, and you have a family movie that's best used as a tool of punishment for an unruly child instead of a reward.

This movie was pretty good but I was wandering what they were thinking when they cast for this movie. I mean they have Don 'The Dragon' Wilson and T.J. Roberts in the same movie. I mean these are two well known martial arts stars and here they are in a movie with not even one good fight scene. I mean yes I understand that they can also act but why put these two stars together like they did in Magic Kid and not even have any martial arts. It was still a pretty good movie but what were they thinking.

I do not believe there is anything wrong with the plot. There is a good story here. In my opinion, it is a combination of bad acting and directing. A lot of of the bad acting is because of the bad directing. Granted it is most likely a very low budget movie, but the director should have had some sort of a grasp on directing a motion picture, or cared more about the film. There are a lot of animals in the picture (a good thing), which probably took more than a few wranglers, and maybe this is where most of the budget went.

One thing that really stands out in my mind is the scene where one moment the Hummer is a car length away from the van, and in then all of a sudden they are about five or more minutes away? And the animal control stuff at the jail was so played out that it brings to mind the old saying, "flogging a dead horse".

I thought this movie was good, the acting was excellent although some of it got to be stupid and unrealistic basically this movie is about a mountain lion that escapes a group of film makers and runs away to a town where people claim its terrorizing the town and they need to put it to sleep, the film makers are insisting that its not the right mountain lion that the sheriff is planning on killing and of course thier right the police have the wrong mountain lion but the film makers have to go out and find the real terrorizing mountain lion to save theirs.

I guess every actor has to have one movie they are not proud of, for Don "The Dragon" Wilson, big time martial artist/actor, this must be that one movie, I didn't get to see him throw a single punch!the fighting towards the end was lousy, I know, I am a first degree black belt. Now I like watching this guys movies, and I like the fighting he does in them, and I was expecting to see him give someone else a lesson in the ancient art of butt kicking, but this let me down.