| Director | Peed Panchapong Kongkanoi, Supawit Suwannet |
| Screenwriters | Nuttapot Potchumnean, Peed Panchapong Kongkanoi, Tientan Petcharoen, Patachara Pattagawong |
| Cast | Ishikawa Plowden, Mookda Narinrak, Supakchaya Sukbaiyen, Peemapol Panichtamrong, Kritsanapong Soonthornchatchawet, Patpasit Na Songkhla, Phasut Banyaem, Antoine Pinto, Jeffrey Conrad Columbres, June Gaksch, Flora Massaro, Auttawut Inthong |
| Native Title | สลิธ โปรเจกต์ล่า |
| Runtime | 99 minutes |
| Genre | Action, Romance |
| Original Language | Thai |
| Platform | Netflix |
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When a deadly forest fire fills Earth with deadly pollutants that pushes civilisation on the brink of collapse, the only hope for humanity seems to be the legendary Slyths, a race of reptilian creatures who can disguise themselves as humans and possess blood that can cure disease. Of course, this results in the hunt to find them and restore peace on Earth.
Slyth The Hunt Saga is a sci-fi movie that tries its best to create an action-packed lore-inspired film filled with mysterious entities and situations and a slow romance that blooms over the course of the runtime. Unfortunately for it, everything about this movie is just horribly made, so much so that watching it is nothing short of a confusing experience.
For most of its runtime, the movie focuses on this VR game that these youngsters play that has something to do with the overall plot. However, we focus so little on Earth’s horrible condition and the mysterious creatures themselves that we forget for the most part about what we are watching. When we do get to the meat of the storyline, it’s just so messy and uninspired that it makes you laugh.
The storytelling is horrible and the CGi is even worse. The reptile people are so fake that you don’t feel anything about it all, more so because we learn nothing about them and their lore. It’s an afterthought in the movie, which is a shame. I think focusing more on the lore part of the story instead of countless hours of Zee and her friends playing games and partying it up would’ve made for a more meaningful plot but, unfortunately, we get a half-baked romance and silly gaming sequences that don’t add anything to the story.
All of this is to say that the characters are really badly written and have little to nothing going for them. They have no personality and nothing going for them, existing only to push the narrative forward. As a result, you don’t care about them regardless of what happens since they feel disposable and exchangeable. And to add a cherry on top of this cake, the acting and action sequences are just so bad that it’s hilarious. There is no passion in the action and thus it feels unreal and forgettable. However, Ishikawa Plowden and Mookda Narinrak look cute as a button together as a couple, so there’s that.
Slyth: The Hunt Saga, in the end, is a half-baked movie that doesn’t know what it wants to be. The lore of the Slyths feels not thought through enough and is only surface-level, making you feel confused and a little irritated. The pacing is terrible and the characters don’t make sense, plus, the cliched way in which information comes forward is jagged and grating, making you jump from one thing to another without rhyme or reason. The horrid acting and action sequences, along with the biggest crime of all – the CGI – make you feel like no one really paid any attention to the movie in the slightest.
Slyth The Hunt Saga Review: Final Thoughts
Forgettable and extremely boring, this sci-fi action film is a confusing mess that is neither here nor there. Although the protagonist couple is absolutely cute, there’s hardly anything else that makes it a decent watch.
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