girvsjoint Any film made with rampaging birds is bound to be immediately compared with the Alfred Hitchcock classic 'The Birds', especially if it has the hero of that film, Rod Taylor, playing a cameo role. Now this was Rod's pen ultimate movie appearance at 76, and he probably only accepted it for a laugh, but he does lend it some heavyweight clout, and is the main reason I bought it on DVD. Having said that, it's light on plot, but considering the minuscule budget compared with what Hitchcock would have had, it's quite well done, of course they had the added benefit of CGI, which of course Alfred didn't. From the extras I learnt that they had 11 trained ravens to work with, plus a couple of mechanical ones, and of course the CGI effects. Unlike 'The Birds' at least there's a reason given for the birds behavior, even if implausible, and the ending is equally anti climactic, still, as I say, anything with Rod Taylor in the cast can't be all bad, and it's better than a lot of stuff being churned out!

Neil Doyle In what appears to be a feeble rip-off of THE BIRDS, KAW stars SEAN PATRICK FLANERY as a man about to serve his last day as sheriff of a sleepy town when some nasty business involving black ravens preying on people comes to his attention. Naturally, he has to do something about it--and then the fun begins.What's so irritating about this one is that everyone seems to deliberately do the wrong thing in order to cause even more hell to break loose. Either careless with their guns or thinking they can shoot a couple of ravens and emerge without a scratch--not knowing that each "kaw" brings hundreds more to the scene.But the main trouble with KAW is that none of the people are the least bit interesting. In this kind of thriller, you have to care about the participants. Even SEAN PATRICK FLANERY as the brave sheriff doing his duty to protect the townspeople is as bland as can be. Let's face it, he's no ROD TAYLOR who played Hitchcock's hero in THE BIRDS.And unfortunately, Rod Taylor has a small role here as Doc, looking more like character actor Walter Brennan than Rod Taylor. He was just about unrecognizable to me until I realized I'd seen his name in the cast. Whatever, age has certainly caused a transformation in his looks.As for the story, it starts slowly but the moment it gets into the more frantic movements of the ravens, it goes into a frenzy of screaming hysteria from the girls on the bus and elsewhere dominating the movie until the end. If you enjoy listening to screams, this one's for you.Summing up: Some passable CGI effects and overall good photography but everyone is let down by a weak script and poorly developed characters.

logical-1 This movie is as bad as it sounds. Killer ravens. I watch almost *anything* that is labeled horror. But I had been avoiding renting this since the premise seemed so weak that it couldn't possibly flesh out into a watchable movie. My wife brought it home one Saturday night and... I was right. The problem here is exacerbated by the fact that I had recently watched two movies which had killer birds in them as a subplot and they were pretty well done. "Resident Evil: Extinction" was one of them, can't remember the other but it was a ghost movie o some kind. Anyway, the crows/ravens in this movie didn't scare me one bit. I kept thinking "just cover your head with your jacket and you'll be all right dammit!" The production values are a couple of notches higher than the quality of the script. The acting is standard/mediocre, which isn't a deal-breaker for me in these genre flicks. The cgi was, again, standard/mediocre, which wouldn't bother me much. Oddly, the photography was quite well done, (always comparing it to the quality of the script). It seemed like there was *some* talent in the crew, but they were simply doomed to make a horribly scripted piece of ... I cannot stress enough how bad, bland, clichéd the story is. It's the only reason I felt compelled to write about it.

Claudio Carvalho On the last working day of Sheriff Wayne (Sean Patrick Flanery), his small town is attacked by blood thirsty ravens that eat human flesh. Meanwhile his wife Cynthia (Kristin Booth) visits a farm where a Mennonite family lives to say farewell to her friend Gretchen (Megan Park) and discloses a dark secret about the origin of the fierce ravens."Kaw" is entertaining, but the plot is quite ridiculous. The explanation that the ravens had eaten flesh of cattle with mad cow disease could explain their aggressive behavior or they hunger for flesh; but the ravens are smart, using for example stones to break the windows of the school bus, and the scientific conclusion is that mad cow disease makes raven intelligent. That is too much, isn't it? My vote is five.Title (Brazil): Not Available