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After losing his eyes in an accident, Aaron (Cory Monteith) is equipped
with wolves' eyes in experimental surgery - and those don't only work much
better than human eyes (e.g. he can also see in the dark), they also
sharpen his other senses ... and turn him into a human wolf. He soon
breaks out of the research facility where he was given his new eyes and
hooks up with wolf-loving native American Lydia (Tinsel Korey), who has an
intimate understanding for him - and they soon fall in love too. However,
Doctor Hewlitt (Justine Bateman) of the research facility wants him back
and eventually has him hauled back by force - and now he has to kill to
get out again - which he does. Lydia brings Aaron to shaman Claude for a rite-of-passage
ceremony of some kind, but in the meantime, the military has taken the
Aaron-case out of Doctor Hewlitt's hands and sends a handful of soldiers
after him to terminate him. Doctor Hewlitt goes after the soldiers to warn
Aaron because she wants him alive, but with his firends, the wolves, Aaron
is able to take out the soldiers even without the doctors help - but in
the end, neither Doc Hewlitt nor Lydia nor the army get their hands on
Aaron because he has decided to live with the wolves. The title
Hybrid is of course a reference to the film's lead character, but
it could also mean its mix of sources: The movie as such is a blend of the
werewolf myth, the novel The Hands of Orlac by Maurice Renard
(itself direct source material for a handful of films), Marvel
Comics' Incredible
Hulk, and a few (possibly made up) native American myths - but
while this combination might sound interesting in writing, it is decidedly
less so on film: In fact, Hybrid is an especially soulless piece of
genre cinema that merely goes through the motions of its formulaic plot
(that isn't even well-written) and is populated by a cast of especially
featureless characters. In that respect it doesn't even matter that much
that the science behind the film is ridiculous (especially for its 2007
production date) and the superhuman powers Aaron gathers thanks to his
eyes are often anything but lupine (e.g. it's cats who land on all fours
when falling from great heights, not wolves). To the film's defense,
there is one well-made sequence, the finale when the soldiers are
decimated by Aaron and his wolf-friends, which is very tensely directed -
but since there is not a single character in the movie one cares about
(least of all the soldiers, in fact), even this scene lacks emotional
impact. In all, don't watch it, you won't miss anything.
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