Far Cry
Tags: cult, stupid

Plot synopsis:
Jason Brody is on vacation with a group of friends in the Rook Islands, celebrating his younger brother Riley getting a pilot license. However, on a skydiving trip, they land on a pirate-infested island and are kidnapped by a pirate lord named Vaas, who plans to extort ransom money from their parents, and then sell them into slavery. With the help of his older brother Grant, Jason breaks out of captivity, but Grant is killed by Vaas in the escape. Jason is rescued by Dennis, who is part of the Rakyat (the island natives who suffer due to the activities of the pirates). Dennis recognizes Jason's potential as a warrior, and gives him the Tatau, the tattoos of a Rakyat warrior. Jason then helps the Rakyat in a number of missions and ends up finding one of his friends, Daisy, at the house of Dr. Earnhardt. Impressed with Jason's prowess, the Rakyat allow him to be the second outsider to enter their sacred temple (Dennis was the first being born in Liberia) and their leader Citra initiates him into the tribe, after Jason finds and returns the Silver Dragon knife, a Rakyat relic, having seen it in a previous dream. He runs a series of missions during which he rescues his captive friends Keith, Oliver and Jason's girlfriend Liza while simultaneously helping the Rakyat retake their island, helped at times by Dr. Earnhardt and Willis Huntley, a CIA agent. After a few run-ins with Vaas, Jason discovers that he is employed by Hoyt Volker, a slave trader and drug lord, and that Vaas is Citra's brother. Throughout the adventure, Jason matures into a fearsome warrior and is revered by the Rakyat, begins to enjoy all the killing, and grows more distant from his friends, especially after receiving information that Riley is dead. After Citra asks him to stay in the island, Jason returns to Dr. Earnhardt's house (where his friends are hiding and preparing their escape by boat), and tells them that he is staying, completely distant from his friends and family, leaving them disturbed. Meanwhile, Jason has an affair with Citra after she drugs him and has sex with him while he is in a hallucination.
After bidding goodbye to his friends, Jason goes to the pirates base where Vaas is. Believing that Jason was dead after a confrontation between the two, Vaas is celebrating Jason's death, although it transpires he was actually waiting for him. After Jason kills numerous pirates and reaches a warehouse, he and Vaas fight, but Jason enters a delusional state, fighting multiple duplicates of Vaas in his dream. He reaches a final Vaas, and after a brief struggle, he impales him through the chest with the Dragon Knife and collapses right besides him. He wakes up to Citra in the Rakyat's temple, and promises her that he will kill Hoyt for her. After Huntley helps him get into Hoyt's island, Jason infiltrates Hoyt's personal army with the help of Sam Becker, Huntley's fellow operative. During this time, Jason discovers that Riley is alive, but a prisoner of Hoyt. Jason works his way into Hoyt's confidence, until Hoyt eventually invites him and Sam to a poker night. After making a plan to kill Hoyt, Sam and Jason sit down at the poker game, but Hoyt stabs Sam in the throat and kills him, knowing the two are traitors. After Jason gets one of his fingers cut by Hoyt, the two have a knife fight, with Jason emerging victorious and killing Hoyt. Jason then goes to rescue Riley; he receives a call from Liza, but the signal is cut before she can say anything. Jason rescues Riley and the two escape by helicopter.
The two then fly to Earnhardt's house, but find it burning and the doctor dying on the ground. With his last words, he tells them that the house was attacked by the Rakyat, and that they have captured Jason's friends. Jason and Riley arrive at the Rakyat Temple. Jason asks Citra why his friends were captured, but she sprays him unconscious with a sleep powder and captures Riley. Citra has fallen in love with Jason, believing him to be a powerful warrior of Rakyat legend, and that she will free him. He starts dreaming of walking a fiery path with the Dragon Knife, and having Liza as a monster in his dream. He wakes up holding Liza at knife point with the Dragon Knife, and is given the choice either to kill his friends or to spare them.
=== Endings ===
If Jason kills his friends, he stays on the island and has sex with Citra in a ritual. However, Citra then stabs Jason in the chest. As he dies, Citra tells him that his child will lead the Rakyat to glory and that he "won".
If Jason spares his friends, he prepares to leave the island, telling the Rakyat and Citra that he is done with killing. As Citra begs him to stay and proclaims her love for him, Dennis is outraged for what he considers a betrayal by Jason and tries to stab him, but Citra jumps in front of Jason and is stabbed. Citra once again proclaims her love for Jason before dying in his arms, as a horrified Dennis breaks down over what he has done. Jason and his friends then leave the island by boat, with Jason narrating that despite becoming a monster from all the killing, he still believes that in some place in his heart he is still better than this. The game ends with a still image of the boat and the Dragon Knife in the beach while the credits roll.

Review: The main difference between Bloodrayne and FarCry really is that the story from Farcry wasn't the games strong point whereas Bloodrayne had a strong story and thus Boll had more chance to mess it up.The action in this movie is actually fairly good.
But the lighter mood this gives to the film actually helps.While I think sticking a little bit closer to the story of the game might have made for a slightly better film the changes made are pretty practical and not big enough to make a difference.
Would have liked it set in the Jungle as that was a pretty integral part of the game but Canada doesn't have a great deal of Jungle and it is at least set in a kind of rainforest.Why Boll feels the need to change already professionally scripted and directed game plots I don't know but he does.
Uwe Boll must not have ever played the video games that he keeps making movies about.
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.
This, I could actually sit through and didn't think that I was completely wasting my time.The locations and sets were good, the cinematography not bad, the acting let things down a bit and the writing was very, very ordinary.
The movie seemed like something out of the 1980's with its numerous action sequences, a lot of which involved boats, water and explosions.The movie's plot didn't exactly follow the game's, but it worked to some extent.
You know, your standard Hollywood movie plot...there's a bad guy, the good guy infiltrates and gets caught, eventually escapes and in the process kills the bad guy and destroys his evil operation.Yeah, at times it drags, and yeah the guy who plays Jack isn't a native American which doesn't really work since the guy in the game comes off as your run-of-the-mill beer drinking American.
I just watched the movie, and I played the game, and although little more than 50% is in common, Far Cry movie isn't that bad.
:-) But I simply forgot about the game, watched the simple movie with some action and not exactly believable romance in it, and I was relaxed.
Acting is like the movie, probably the romance in the bed is the worst part (although I generally like bed scenes and I'm very forgiving there ;-)), some action parts are way too long (one chase with the mutant) but otherwise it's quite solid average movie based on a simple script without any great idea.
Seeing how the director behind this movie is Uwe Boll which, as a lot of you probably know, isn't a very well liked guy I'm guessing that a lot of people gave this a 1 on principle alone, some of them even without having seen it imagine.
The Better of Uwe. Up until right now, i have rated Uwe Boll's movies no more than a 4, everything was so poorly written and directed that i couldn't give a better one.On this particular movie though..i had to give him a 5 for trying.He managed to get the best second hand actors around and put out a better display of the movie....for the first part that is.The beginning made me think the movie could be it...the first one to which i could have given an over 7 rating....but from the middle ..it just kept lower and lower.The ending was too dull..no fun for the watcher..]Keep it up Uwe,you might get the chance of scoring a 7 with me for that matter !
And I know that the name "Uwe Boll" makes a lot of people say: "Oh my God, not another movie by this guy".
Well, I wasn't surprised, that the story deviated from the game, I wasn't surprised that they didn't have a lot of money for the special effects, but I saw the list of actors taking part in the movie, which was really surprising.For the movie, I must say, that it is a descent action movie and that it is - of course - on a low budget scale.
This also means, that some characters were invented (e.g. the big funny guy and the uncle, you will see, if you see the movie).What I liked about it was all about the game - they implemented the cars, the boat(s), the secret experiments stuff and the one guy that got there - uninvited.
I liked the movie and I must admit, that although the storyline changed and it doesn't really feel like "Far Cry - the game", there was a lot of fun and action in it.
Boll's reputation certainly precedes him so there'll always be a good number of people getting exactly what they expected even if the film wasn't as bad as...say...Bloodrayne.
There's gunfights, super soldiers, some somewhat lame attempts at comedy, but in the end it's all a decent way to kill some time.I must confess...I've only played the sequel to Far Cry, never the original so I don't know how faithful the movie is to the game.
ONE, forget the game (even though it is good);TWO,watch this movie empty headed/don't take it seriously; THREE, ignore the bad acting.
If you have played Far cry, or like action films i see no reason why its not worth checking this movie out.
Sure, Uwe Boll has directed his fair share of B-movies, but I think he has shown real promise with his latest video game adaption "Far Cry".
On the island Carver is faced with a mad German scientist who's genetically modifying people into mutant soldiers.Far Cry is very fun and quite an enjoyable movie, I can't imagine why anyone would rate this film anything less than a 5.
Its nice to see a movie where the characters are interacting with each other instead of spitting lame lines at one another.One more thing, the lead female (Emmanuelle Vaugier), its refreshing to see a hottie that can actually act for change, good job.
Based on a much-loved video game of the same name, and directed by Uwe Boll, a lot of critics were sure that "Far Cry" would be a complete failure, even before they had seen the movie.
In a movie, the director can only present his own interpretation, and that will seem unsatisfactory to many fans of the game.Given this restriction, Uwe Boll has done a fairly good job.
Still though, this could easily have been a much better movie, had story choices been made that were more in-line with what made the game great.In the beloved game, the lead character (Carver) is a former special-forces soldier, and is 100% American, complete with accents and vices.
That such a film is attached to such a wildly successful game title with so much potential is an insult and a shame.A bit of praise needs to go to the action sequences, fight choreography, and visual/special effects, which were better than I expected given the other elements of this disaster..
There is a real fun but short chase scene between Jack and a mutant and just a bunch of those comedy-action scenes.Uwe really made THE movie about far cry.
The film is grate in my opion Uwe did a fantistic job made it witty, funny and full of good action and stunts.But ooo there's a saw word in todays world "stunts" not "special effects" and the far cry crowed was expecting the latter.
Yet another video game adaptation by Mr. Boll, FAR CRY has a retired Special Forces guy (Schweiger) ferrying a female reporter (Vaugier) to a remote island where her uncle is being held by mysterious forces.
I'm pleased to report that FAR CRY is by far the best Boll film I've thus watched; it's no masterpiece, that's for sure, but it's reasonably entertaining, unlike the majority of his output.The film contains all of the ingredients usual for a Boll-style B-movie: an ensemble cast of fading faces, lots of low rent action, some cheesy effects and the like, and plenty of cliché.
When I watch this movie,I did not know who was director.Uwe Boll really?He finally made good movie.Of course its not perfect,but I think there are many good scenes,effect are also OK.Actors were not bad,but their performances were really weak.Don't trust any uwe boll'haters.Probably some people gave raiting without watch this film.
After all far cry was good game adaptation with some powerful action scenes If you want to see ridiculous film and already play far cry games,this movie is one of best.
Germany's most notorious director, Dr. Uwe Boll, has stricken again and just unleashed his next action-packed adaptation of a popular video game, namely Ubisoft's best selling ego shooter "Far Cry".
century" still allowed to make movies after all the atrocities he committed in the past and why couldn't he have chosen a game that's at least a little less popular and well respected than the legendary "Far Cry".I, however, have stopped to listen to the complaints of the naysayers long ago, cause not only have I more or less enjoyed almost all films that Boll directed since his infamous first video game adaptation "House Of The Dead" in 2003, but also do I believe that even those flicks, which I personally do not hold in the highest esteem, like "Alone In The Dark" or "Bloodrayne II: Deliverance", are still quite a bit better than the bashers say they are.Anyway.
If you're lookin' for a fast-paced, tongue-in-the-cheek no-brainer in the tradition of vintage b-movie classics such as Van Damme's "Universal Soldier", Chuck Norris' "Invasion USA" or Arnie's "Commando", "Far Cry" is definitely the right film for you to watch.If the cuts had been a bit slower during the action sequences and if the camera had been a bit less shaky during the fight scenes, I would almost have believed that I'm watching a cheesy cult flick from the past and not a movie that's been shot in 2007.
Except for a few minor reservations, Uwe Boll has indeed succeeded in combining the special charm of the action flicks of the 80s with modern techniques, spectacular effects and an up-to-date look.Sure, just like the afore-mentioned classics, "Far Cry" does also not really have a profound story, deep characters and clever dialogues, but then again, I really doubt that anyone in his right mind would expect a campy flick like this to come up with any of these things.
When the former elite soldier Jack Carver (Til Schweiger) and the ambitious reporter Valerie Cardinal (Emmanuelle Vaugier) set foot on a secluded island where the mad scientist Dr. Krieger (Udo Kier) is working on the creation of an army of genetically engineered super-soldiers, all hell breaks loose and bullets and fists are about to cut the air at minute intervals.In Dr. Krieger's secret labs the laws of physics and gravity seem to be no longer valid and hence we get to see a lot of cool and totally over-the-top action sequences that make us laugh and giggle almost as much as the corny dialogues and (unintentionally) funny incidents (you have to see the hilarious build-up to Jack's and Valerie's love scene, for example).The only things I didn't really like about "Far Cry", apart from the afore-mentioned fast cuts and shaky camera work during the fight scenes, are the fact that throughout the whole movie hardly any blood squirts out of the wounds when people get shot and the annoying character of Chris Coppola.
Neither the film itself nor the stars, like Til Schweiger and Udo Kier who both deliver really cool performances, take themselves too seriously - a point that really adds to the overall enjoyment of the flick.To cut a long story short, I'd finally like to recommend Uwe Boll's "Far Cry" to all those of you who are still into the old action hits of the past.
Don't worry who directed it, don't worry what you could have done better or pointing out all the falacies (come on...it's a sci-fi action film after all), and knowing nothing about the game I simply cannot comment on the movie.BUT...taken on its own, as a quirky kind of sci-fi action flick, it's a fun 90 minutes with a great pace, and decent all around production..
Just finished watching this and here is my simple review.This film is an adaptation of the popular Far Cry game series.The good points - Some good action,lead character is nearly perfect for the part, acting not too bad.The bad points - cheap plot,not every aspect of the game is not put into the movie(eg.
the main character in the game has the ability to change into superhuman at will there is no sign of this in this movie) All in all it's not a bad watch if you fancy a simple action movie and I am glad to say one of uwe boll's better films.Enjoy.
How to make viewers Cry & Laugh.Alright Far Cry is basically NOT based on a computer PC game, It is an action adventure thriller, I mean at least this is what this movie look likes.OK far cry starts with a weird examination that is going on an unknown Island far away from general population by some weird scientist (Dr. Lucas Krieger), who Experimentation are funded by government officials (General Roderick).
House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, and Bloodrayne, all horror games adapted into movies by Boll are far worse than this (they have no redeeming qualities).
Far Cry the video game released in 2004 created such a cult following that making a movie from the content should have been easy and scores of gamers would have flocked to watch the film.
I stumbled upon this so - called film by chance ,and as I had once tried to play the game ,I said what the heck , let's see the film .And, boy , was I surprised –riled – deadly amazed–disgusted only after about 10 minutes of this manure .That I was in for a horrendously bumpy ride on the supposedly best German highway, I did not expect , but I should 've known better after facing the introduction ,emblazoned with ,yes , prepare thyself and forgive them not ,God , none and nothing other than the infamous Uwe Boll !!!
It's bad enough that the game itself (in my opinion) could be a lot better, but the making of the film (by Boll) was a freaking sacrilege.
There are no spoilers in the review and neither in any other film review all my reviews are based upon my view on the movie and no one others please feel free to send me a message or your review on this movie far cry the movie based upon the great fps (first Person Shooter/s) Game seen as it is based on a game it probably would be bad because most movies based upon games are shocking Eg Alone in the dark It would of been good if it was not made by shocking The director 30 million for this movie no way i could make better on movie maker Pros Good Fight Scenes Cons Jack Carvers Accent Acting Effects Guns battles sound effects Muzzle Flashes Just about everything 3.5/10 Reviewed and Watched By Jack Doyne Next Review Doctor who Classic.
I've seen much worse acting, worse effects and sets, and worse action sequences.I've neither played the game, nor watched any of Boll's other movies, so although my expectations weren't terribly high, I wasn't offended by the film's take on the game (as I had no comparison) nor was I predisposed to hate it because of the director (never heard of him).Unlike certain other movies (I'm thinking the execrable "Click", for example), if I'd watched this in a cinema I probably wouldn't actually have walked out.Unexciting but not offensively bad.
After all, it's based on a video game that I played half of and got bored with.I was in no way even close to prepared for how bad this movie would be.
In short, there's NOTHING that was good about this film.Don't get me wrong: I love action movies with horrible plots.
Good plot and pretty action sequences, maybe the problem is its title "Far Cry" I played the game and I noticed that it is completely different but if you forget the title, there are no problems at all.
i was one "chosen" to see this movie in a sneak preview.first you should know that this film is based on the video game "far cry", a for its time really good game (2004).
there were so horrible mistakes in this film (like 3 scenes playing at the same time, 2 at day-time, and one somehow at night.....)so lets come to "far cry".
Beat Down Reviews : Far Cry. Okay this is another one of Uwe Boll's game-to-movies.
I know what you are thinking.I am crazy but seriously this film is a slight improvement on all of of his game-to-movie adaptations.
There is always a bad thing and a good thing when it comes to a game-to-movie adaptation.
If Uwe Boll has proved anything is that can direct a B-action movie properly if he wanted.
Far Cry truly is the perfect recipe for an action film but a lot of video games are like that and few of them ever translate into a kick-butt action flick let alone be held back by B-Movie actors and a hack like Boll behind the scenes.
Maybe its just a lucky shot by Moeller or maybe they happened to write him better but he is the only redeemable character.I think I trashed Uwe Boll enough to get the point across that he will ruin almost any video game and keep doing it with money, hence three Bloodrayne films, and a new Dungeon Siege sequel on the way.