miked6022 Wow, where to begin. Let's be fair to this movie and say that it was made for television. That being said, the special effects reflect that and no further mention of special effects, or lack there of, will be made in this review.Starting with the characters seems like good a place as any. These characters make questionable, if not just plain stupid, decisions. For example, when first attacked by the giant mutant birds, one character hides under a picnic table while another hides in a tent. I guess that hiding spot behind the dandelion was already taken. While in the gas filled tunnel with boxes of old dynamite at their feet, the character Derrick attempts to light a cigarette. (In a continuity note, didn't Derrick attempt to bum a cigarette a couple minutes earlier? Where did he get that cigarette?) There are other examples of character stupidity (all lighting up cigarettes seconds after their Counselor is mauled by mutant birds, initiating sex in the woods while fleeing the birds, etc.), far too many to list here.Medical mistakes. There are numerous medical blunders in this film, but I will just point out a few:1) The blood transfusion in the surgery scene is not infusing. Good thing too, because there is enough air in the IV tubing to cause an air embolus and actually kill the patient.2) The sutures on the wound are far too apart. Doesn't really matter as the surgeon did not irrigate the wound. If she had, she would not be pulling foreign bodies from the site after wound closure had begun.3) Park Ranger goofball Lance Guest not only walks into the OR without putting on a pair of scrubs, but also seems to have all medical and laboratory equipment at his disposal.Question: How big is that Wisconsin forest? We know that it takes place in Wisconsin because Lance Guest's vehicle in the film has a Wisconsin license plate. When asked how long it would take the Army Helicopter to intercept the birds, the answer is given "15 minutes." If the Army Helicopter can travel 180 MPH, and we assume it is flying at it's top speed to find the killer mutant birds, does that mean the helicopter is 45 miles away from the birds at the time? Where exactly were they looking for the birds? Did the helicopter plan to stop for coffee, increasing their travel time to 15 minutes? Finally, in an example of some extremely lazy and apathetic film making, there is a very obvious recycled scene. At 17:40 of the film, there is an Establishment Shot outside the hospital. There are many extras in the scene standing around the hospital, walking into the hospital, and walking out of the hospital. At 30:46, there is another Hospital Establishment Shot with all the same extras going through all the same motions.This film is one to be avoided. It is a complete waste of time.

Paul Andrews Flu Bird Horror starts as two guy's out deer hunting in some isolated forest are attacked by what look like large reptilian prehistoric birds, one is killed while the other is badly injured. Meanwhile several convicted teens on a trip to the woods with a social worker are also attacked by the birds, with their social worker dead these layabout law-breaking teens have to work together to survive becoming bird food. Back with the fisherman & he is rescued by a local forest ranger who takes him to hospital where the doctor's get very worried as he seems to be infected with a highly contagious & lethal mutant strain of bird flu that could start a worldwide epidemic that could kill billions...Great, just what the world needed. Another Sci-Fi Channel 'Creature Feature' with bad CGI computer effects & a totally lame & predictable story full of holes & bad writing. Issued on DVD in the US under the title of Flu Birds & knew I was in trouble when I saw Nu Image Films produced it & Leigh Scott directed it (just check out their IMDb resumes & see at how many bad horror films they both have credited between them) so at that point I wasn't expecting too much which is just as well because Flu Bird Horror isn't that good although I will admit I have seen worse Sci-Fi Channel 'Creature Features' although that's certainly no sort of recommendation in itself. The script is pretty poor, the teen character's are all clichéd & annoying, there's virtually zero exposition or plot & the makers don't even try to suggest where the birds came from, what they are, where they have been, why no-one has ever seen them before, why there's only six of them, why they have only just started to attack people or why they carry a mutant strain of bird flu. Then there's the fact that Flu Bird Horror tends to focus more on the killer disease aspect of it's story like a zero budget rip-off of Outbreak (1995) rather than it's monster birds which would be fine but the disease angle is never tied up, the last time we see the hospital it's quarantined & the deadly mutant bird flu is rampant yet this side of the story is never resolved or gone back to again. Having said that it moves along at a reasonable pace, it doesn't outstay it's welcome, there are a couple of OK gore scenes & it's relatively entertaining in a crap sort of way if you don't think about the plot too much.Like all Sci-Fi Channel 'Creature Features' Flu Bird Horror has plenty of CGI computer effects & I have to say while they aren't particularly good they are better than most of the Sci-Fi Channel output. There's some OK gore here too with a pecked out eyeball, a severed leg, a body bitten in half, some intestine eating & some guy with bird flu who has lots of open bloody sores all over his body. I think the DVD artwork displayed on the IMDb is misleading, this isn't about ordinary birds turning into killers & giving people horrible diseases as there's these prehistoric dinosaur looking creatures the origins of which are never explained in any way whatsoever.The production values are alright, it's fairly well made as far as cheap TV films go. The acting is alright too, even though the character's are poor the actor's are OK & there one or two good looking girls here which helps.Flu Bird Horror is a fairly routine Sci-Fi Channel 'Creature Feature' that isn't as bad as some of it's type but that ain't saying much, if you know what to expect & can live with the expected &^ obligatory flaws then you may get something out of Flu Bird Horror, all other's should steer well clear.

Helen Kay So my warning to those of you who have not yet wasted their time, no matter how cheap you may view it, DON'T.This is what the Sci-Fi Channel is becoming known for; brain-dead movies which are not in the least "Sci-Fi". At one point in history, not so long ago, say, prior to 2002, the Sci-Fi Channel was true to its name. Then came movies like this. And in droves! Garbage, pitiful piles of dung which never cease to amaze for the sheer low quality they exude.What's most notable about this "movie" is the sheer LACK of anything GOOD to say about it! Rare is the movie which is of such all-encompassing lackluster merits that there are no good points to be offered. No, this movie doesn't even have the "cheese" appeal; you can't even say "it's so BAD it's GOOD"! If you want that, watch some of the Japanese monster films from the 1960s.About the only remarkable quality of this film is how the Sci-Fi Channel manages to produce movies which continue to get WORSE.

kapman I was cheering for the Flu Birds to win so the movie would be over. The writing and directing had me feeling sorry for the actors. What could they do to save the film being handed this piece of poop. Was it written by a 7 year old and directed by a homeless person. My apology to the homeless. The actors apparently needed jobs and apparently need new managers. The actors did over act in what I think was them trying to make the movie kind of camp. The actors were good looking but I saw pain in their faces like they were being forced to do this film. If this was intended to be a horror movie then they really missed the mark. I did find myself laughing at how ridiculous the whole thing was. It is another example how someone had a good idea for a movie and then the writers and director screwed it all up. I suppose the people that funded this movie are so rich that they wanted a tax loss for the year?