Things come together, sort of, near the end of the movie. The set up for the story was pretty good, but it became a little far fetched to me the longer Taylor Crane (Elysia Rotaru) kept coming back at Riad (Stephen Lobo). It felt like she was goading him into further retaliation for showing up at his remote place in the woods. And every time it appeared that she had a chance to make a break for it, she found another reason to stick around, like snooping in Riad's back room with all the press clippings, or going upstairs to discover the guy in the prison cell. It was all very surreal. Although believe it or not, it finally made sense when the postman (Tahmoh Penikett) showed up and knew Crane by name. After failing to take out Riad, the postman gets stabbed by Taylor, so now it looks like opposing agencies in an attempt to take down the back woods conspiracy theorist. There's a tease of what the story's about with a couple clips of a handler giving instructions to an agent, but the question would be to who. Mercifully, but quite abruptly, the picture comes to an end, and you're left no better off knowing what this was all about. The best was when Taylor somehow managed to take Riad's gun away from him. You can rewind that scene multiple times and never figure it out. By the time the story is over, you may not even care.

Let's face it, there are better spy movie than Killbird, even much better ones, but it's still entertaining enough to never get bored. To me it deserves a better rating, it's certainly worth a one time viewing. The plot is mysterious and keeps your attention, it keeps you guessing what's going on, and that's the most positive point of the movie. I agree that it looks and sounds a little bit like a B-movie but with the budget they had they did a decent job. As for the acting let's just say there are no future Oscar winners here but it was not cringing to watch either. I will probably forget everything about this movie in a week but I don't regret watching it.

I enjoyed this! I'm saying that with genuine surprise because I don't think Killbird is for everyone. It's very slow burn, the story is too convoluted for its own good and yet still for most of the movie not a lot happens beyond two people talking, and the dialogue is barely passable. But somehow, this micro-budget spy thriller set in the backwoods kept my full attention from the very start.

Killbird begins with a seemingly chance encounter between a photographer having car trouble and a suspicious and possibly paranoid hermit living off the grid far from civilization. We're left guessing if these people are really who they say they are, and as more characters are introduced things only get less clear. It's hard to puzzle out who, if anyone, the viewer should be rooting for and who is actually telling the truth.

I'll be honest, the story somewhat gets drowned in endless conspiracy babble and repeated "who are you" conversations. But, for some reason this movie connected with me and I was hooked. I hesitate to recommend Killbird because it definitely, DEFINITELY has flaws and the smaller budget (and underwhelming script) really requires some imagination from the audience to make things believable, but I think I'm that one person out of five that this movie works for. And no, it's not because I love Battlestar Galactica so much that I did geek out over seeing a few cast members for the first time in years. At the very least, the setting is novel for this genre, Elysia Rotaru is a very capable lead, and I admire that this movie does a lot with limited resources.