Film Review – Daughter of the Wolf

Director David Hackl clearly has a fondness for outdoor adventures. A few years ago, he crafted “Into the Grizzly Maze,” trying to participate in the brief resurgence of killer bear movies, and now he’s made “Daughter of the Wolf,” which takes viewers to the Canadian wilderness to track the efforts of one mother determined to rescue her son from a gang of kidnappers. There’s a survival element to the feature that’s worth developing, and star Gina Carano is always more interesting being physical than dramatic, but “Daughter of the Wolf” isn’t particularly inventive with its forest showdown. Screenwriter Nika Agiashvili attempts a deeper motivation for criminal activity, but there’s not enough fury to inspire excitement, while passes at a primal connection between humans and the beasts of the wild is fairly ridiculous. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com