The TRAIN TO BUSAN of Animal Attack Movies?
Well it's perhaps not quite that, but PROJECT SILENCE, which is getting a DVD, Blu-ray and (for those who like things sparkling and shiny) a 4K UHD release that looks excellent, is a rip-roaring Korean killer dogs on the loose picture that also handles the human element well.
There's a huge pile-up on a suspension bridge during terrible fog and pretty soon the lanes both ways are closed. The main problem, however, is the subjects of Project Silence, a military research project gone wrong that has involved training big black bully breed dogs to attack assigned targets, those targets having been programmed into them via the chips inserted into their brains.
The lorry carrying them is in the crash. The dogs escape. Everything would still be okay but after the animals have been herded back into their container the helicopter crew sent in to lift it out (in terrible weather) find that one of the dogs has lost her chip and she attacks them. The cage is dropped back onto the road, the helicopter crashes, and the all the dogs end up viewing everyone on the bridge as targets. Oh, and the bridge is collapsing and at one end there's a tanker of poison gas that's leaking.
PROJECT SILENCE moves at a clip (it's only 95 minutes long) and handles its scenes of action, suspense, and catastrophic disaster well. Characters are well drawn and interact believably. Finally there are the dogs. Some reviews have complained that they look too CGI, but actually if you're a dog lover the effects sufficiently divorce you from thinking of them as real dogs that you can enjoy it too.
Altitude's disc release contains no extras, but you do get the option of either a Korean or English language track, with subtitles if you need them.
PROJECT SILENCE is out on DVD, Blu-ray, 4K UHD, and 4K UHD steelbook now
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