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Behemoth review

posted 13 years ago by montysmith-slp
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“Check your vectors, I’m calling control…” As usual, the government boffins know not what they do when monitoring a humongous creature in the Earth’s crust. It’s left to lumberjack Ed Quinn to save the world from yet another Mayan doomsday scenario – and his kid sister Cindy Busby, who’s camping in the woods. The only one who works out what’s going on is William B. Davis, The X-Files’ Cigarette Man. And he acts so bug-eyed crazy, he must have given up smoking. Quinn just acts bored and annoyed. He must have read the script. Extinct volcanos aren’t the only things letting off steam in global destruction sci-fi wrecked by the curse of lousy CGI. The only way it could look any worse is if it was converted to 3D.
Filmed in Stawamus, British Columbia, by RHI for Syfy, copyright Goliath Productions 2010. Broadcast by Star Movies in south-east Asia on 14 December 2010.

[–] thetheeyecreature 13 years ago

This movie is on Syfy tonight; I can't resist checking it out.

Just from the synopsis, it sounds like maybe they owe the estate of Jack Williamson some money. (If I remember "Born of the Sun" right.)

"The truth 24 times a second."

[–] Chops-4 13 years ago

It may be cold and wet but British Columbia sure has beautiful scenery.

[–] zerobeat 13 years ago

One positive review of this debacle says something like "I don't know why you people didn't like this movie, it was even better than 2012".

I don't know how something like this gets past the script stage. Do the powers that be realize how bad it is but greenlight it anyway? Or do they genuinely think they have something good on their hands?

Do they know the difference between a film and a hamburger?

[–] DJ_DEVASTATION 12 years ago

They obviously have money, that's for sure, since they gave it a go. Just one more proof that global crisis is just bs served by governments to put a cork in a budget or cover up their financial muck-ups.