There are much worse films available, but however generous one might try to be, one cannot really score this offering very high. It does not have the craziness of Six-headed Shark Attack, nor the ingenuity & novelty of a genuinely good film like The Man From Earth. It is faithful to its genre: nowhere near as much as fun as Megalodon, Hydra, or Piranhaconda, but not insultingly dull or witless either.
There is some gore and several deaths. Most of the characters were either flat, or unsympathetic. The titular birds were highly visible. They would not have been out of place in a Doug McClure film.
It was not involving, let alone gripping, but tolerable, the kind of film one can watch with half an eye, use as wallpaper while doing other things, and dip into now and again whenever anything interesting seemed to be happening, without much risk of missing anything important while not attending to it.
The very last scene could be used as a sequel hook - but a sequel to this seems unlikely, as the film showed little of the inventiveness, energy, and skill in plotting that good sequels seem to be built on.
There is some gore and several deaths. Most of the characters were either flat, or unsympathetic. The titular birds were highly visible. They would not have been out of place in a Doug McClure film.
It was not involving, let alone gripping, but tolerable, the kind of film one can watch with half an eye, use as wallpaper while doing other things, and dip into now and again whenever anything interesting seemed to be happening, without much risk of missing anything important while not attending to it.
The very last scene could be used as a sequel hook - but a sequel to this seems unlikely, as the film showed little of the inventiveness, energy, and skill in plotting that good sequels seem to be built on.