The Rig (2010)

How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

The idea of something monstrous loose on a storm-lashed oil rig is a very appealing one. A more remote, dangerous outpost it is difficult to imagine. Director Peter Atencio makes good use of a clearly low budget and ushers in a moody and claustrophobic atmosphere, fills it with a gruff working crew, and Writer CW Fallin brings them to life with some often witty dialogue. This, I always think, is the key to a level of success that belies budget – make the characters appealing (or most of them, at least) and the audience are affected by what happens to them.What happens to them is a fairly impressive series of death-by-monster. Many of these attacks are genuinely shocking, not so much in their execution – which is fine but hardly spectacular – but in the way they occur at the least expected moments.It's disheartening to see a fair amount of negative online reviews for this. It doesn't take someone as insignificant as myself to point out that everyone is entitled to their opinion, but it would be a shame to think that people slate this purely because of its low budget – which, on the evidence here, isn't THAT low. The insulting 'anyone who votes this more than one star is in some way associated with the movie' is a very narrow-minded and untrue viewpoint.It plods in places, and the finale is somewhat protracted, but there are some impressive directorial flourishes that further compound the remoteness of the location. This Alien-like horror run-around won't change your life, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

During a tropical storm, an assortment of badly written crew characters must deal with the rough weather as well as a mysterious creature who finds itself aboard the rig. Whenever 4 or more writers work on the same movie script, it's usually not a great sign (if said film is an anthology that rule doesn't apply, but this is not the case here) The plot is trite, the characters somehow cliché and bland at the same time, and the film as a whole is not nearly entertaining enough to make the huge detriments ignorable. An extremely dreary mess, avoid it.My Grade: D-Eye Candy: Carman Perez gets topless

Owww… my head hurts, and my wallet. I just spent my hard earned money on this movie, not to mention an hour and a half of my life!Okay, the best thing is the cover art on the tin – a set of giant jaws coming up from the dark depths, and looked pretty cool. The story is standard fare – strand em, then kill em. The back-story is a drilling rig out in the middle of the ocean. Caught in a storm at the same time they punch through into an underground (under seafloor) cavern and release a monster. The opening scenes were good - something comes out of a deep vent and swims towards the camera - huge teeth are shown... and then everything goes dark….No seriously, I mean real dark! The shots of the creature are mostly so dark I felt like I needed to grab some night- vision goggles cause most of the movie is pitch black. The first killing takes place on the rig… in a small room! Okay, so we know now its not huge. But wait, they soon find shed skins… is it growing Alien style? It's picking them off one by one (will we humans never learn?), and gives you the monster-cam view of things - wobbly and blurry. But don't worry, towards the end you do get to see the thing (spoilers alert) and crikey, what am i back in the 50s? It looked like some guy in a black wetsuit wearing a web- crown and a bad dental plate – a bit like the Creature from the Black Lagoon with a breathing problem. The only cliché they could have included to top it off was to have the hero blow the thing up, with himself being sacrificed at the same time… and then have him miraculously survive… and then also having the thing jumping back out for one last kill!Oh wait, they did!

Wow, can someone please give me the directors number as he owes me 2 hours of my life back. Easily the worst movie I've seen of late.I'm not usually reviewer, nor a movie critic, but if i can save someone from watching this movie then I will have achieved some sort of personal satisfaction for the torture that I received whilst watching it.The 2 positive things i can take from this movie is that 1)i saw some boobs and 2) it makes some bad movies I've watched now seem semi-bad.Every facet of this movie is shocking from the script right down to the monster which is is a cross between an inbred raccoon an A-sexual dog on heat.The acting is only topped in poorness by the dialog, which appears to be the script of a cheesy R-rated porn.How this movie made it to DVD is beyond me, obviously someone in the cast or crew is sleeping with someone in the know how.I wouldn't even recommend illegally downloading this movie. do yourself and your braincells a favour and steer clear unless you have a spew bucket and a swear jar handy 0.5/10