Behemoth (2011)

Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

The ScyFy Channel strikes again with another cheap science fiction thriller. This time, it's a legendary monster which lives deep under a volcano in the Pacific northwest. It has most of the clichés, including the usual stock characters & situations, and it never surprises. The script is more literate than typical for a film like this, which I applaud, but there is also too much filler material. Also, the title monster is not bad and I wish it had gotten more screen time. The best aspect is the beautiful scenery, but there are plenty of ways to see that without spending money on this film. It's just never exciting or interesting enough.

Have to watch this one... it gets funny...Professors daughter taking a camping trip with metro-sexual guy who has the lowest testosterone level in recorded history... and as we watch her snivel and whine all the way up the hill... when he reaches out to support her emotionally... she tells him to be quiet the rest of the way... DID SHE REALLY JUST PUT HIM ON A TIME OUT??? Looks like quiet time for him... The question is.. does he ever make it back down the hill... and do you think he should have let her out and driven back down the hill at the occurrence of her first temper tantrum...What about the professor who we find living evenings in the local diner because his supposedly supportive daughter, we find chasing her tail around town instead of feeding Dad at home. Although the Professor seems to have his own pedophile predilections culminating towards the end of the movie where we discover yet another find example of modern woman represented in ZOEY... a short little hot bodied dingbat we ponder how she could keep 2 orders straight or her job at the diner... till that one overhead down her top selfie is displayed, where we discover the professor with his arms around her in comfort ( shouldn't we all be comforting her )peering down her top...Seriously... this is a must see... Why when everyone is in the helicopter is the man wearing the flight helmet AND NOT THE WOMAN PILOT... He was last go get in.... So many moments in this show make you want to back it up to see those moments again... in dis belief.. I would call this a must see...Gloria Allred may well find contention and grounds for a few Civil Suits based social relevance... But after all... not every movie is an academy award winner...

When a series of strange accidents in a remote town raise the questioning of the local authorities, they realize the town's celebratory extinct volcano's return to life is the result of a deadly monster buried beneath it and must stop it before it starts Armageddon on Earth.What is quite possibly the single biggest disappointing creature feature ever, since this one doesn't even play off as a creature feature at all. Instead, the majority of the first hour in the film plays instead like a disaster movie, with the usual signs of a volcano's impending release scattered throughout, and the action scenes as well owing more to that than a creature feature. When the creature does get loose, it's so big as to be effectively rendered immobile, spends ten minutes freeing itself from a mountain trap that's never explained how it got there and doesn't do anything but whip it's tentacles around in a series of lame CGI-driven scenes. That this is the final five minutes of the movie isn't to be overlooked, and while there is some cheesy fun to be had from this stuff, unless you're into those kinds of disaster movies and not creature features, this one will disappoint you severely.Rated R: Language and Violence.

I thought this was going to be a remake of the 1950s British B movie THE GIANT BEHEMOTH and certainly the info button stated that the premise involved a giant monster terrorising London which as it turned out was misleading mendacity . The opening scene mirrors the opening of that film with the action transferred from the Coprnish coast of England to the forests of Canada but that's the only connection to that B movie which was at least entertaining . The problem with this movie is that it's extremely boringAfter a geologist is killed nothing of any note takes place for half the running time . Nothing . All that happens is that we're introduced to one supporting character after another after another . They are of course the type of characters you'd expect to see in a daytime soap opera or in a TVM with no nuance or idiosyncratic traits . The characters are so inoffensive they're almost painful and it's hard for any audience to feel any emotion towards them one way or another which sums up this film perfectly