Behemoth (2011)

the best part of this movie was its scenery. basically it was so choppy nothing flowed not even the plot. the was so pathetic the acting was so terrible. the acting was also bad . like i said before the cgi was an embarrassing, and poorly done to say the least i remember when the syfy channel put out very good movies a long ago. over the past years they seem to have their heads up their bottoms with the movies. what a shame.

This movie is not as bad as it is made out to be. First off it is surprisingly well shot, and the scenery is beautiful. Secondly, this is a B movie. It didn't have a huge budget, and it shows. That's all right though; it is what it is, an old school monster movie. My main complaint is that not enough people got eaten by the monster. Some people have complained about the cgi. I've seen much worse animation, especially in older movies. The animation used was perfectly acceptable. This movie isn't the best nor is it the worst, though it definitely deserves better than the appalling 3.4 rating it has.

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.

Behemoth is set in the small US town of Ascenion where several unexplained Earth tremors have caught the attention of the Government who send in a team of geologists to investigate & former resident & seismologist Emily Allington (Pascale Hutton) also decides to check out the unusual phenomenon which she believes may be connected to a dormant Volcano. However the truth is far worse, a huge tentacled monster has awoken & as it moves underground is causing these tremors & huge amounts of destruction to property. In steps ex military man Thomas Walsh (Ed Quinn) who is hired by a Government agent to guide him to where the equipment of his ill fated colleagues is. Stranded in the isolated mountain terrain both Thomas & Emily stumble across each other & face a fight for survival with poisonous CO2 leaking everywhere & a giant monster on the rampage to deal with...This Canadian & American co-production was directed by David Hogan & is yet another terrible Sy-Fy Channel creature feature, really how many more of these turgid & throughly formulaic little films are we going to have to endure? There must be a market for them out there, I mean someone must be watching them, right? I think maybe because it's cheap television these things will continue to get made, & I know I'll be stupid & boneheaded enough to keep watching the damned things! When I first saw Behemoth listed in my TV guide as a giant monster film I thought it might have been a cheap remake of the rather good classic black and white monster film The Giant Behemoth (1959) but it isn't, no this is a boring creature feature with a supposed Eco message about us humans abusing the environment & mother nature striking back in the form of a giant monster. The script for Behemoth is very talky, the entire first half is vague exposition about something taking revenge on humanity for it's general behaviour & lots of people running around trying to sound serious about what's going on. None of this works, for a start it's relentlessly dull, the talk about the active Volcano goes nowhere, the ancient myth about monsters is too vague & again is never worked into the plot in any meaningful way. There is no explanation behind the events of Behemoth, whether the creature is some supernatural force or not is never indicated, the purpose of the Behemoth is also left unanswered & while the dialogue suggest that it is a worldwide phenomenon the Behemoth never attacks anything other than a small town. At that rate it would take it quite a while to destroy the entire world. Even though the IMDb plot synopsis indicates 'worldwide destruction' it never happens & is never even referenced. Then there's the US military guy, if the US Government & military are expecting the Behemoth why send just one guy & one rocket launcher in a suitcase? Why not send an entire army of soldiers all armed to the teeth with these weapons? The character's are poor, there's no emotional interest as I didn't care who lived or died & despite being so big & powerful the Behemoth only seems interested in just sitting on top of a Volcano & roaring. At just over 80 minutes Behemoth felt much longer as it plods along, all I can really remember about Behemoth are these two people running around a forest for an hour & not much else.The only credible aspect of Behemoth that saves it from getting a one star rating are the CGI computer effects which are surprisingly good. The actual Behemoth creature when fully revealed at the end is rather impressive it has to be said, OK it doesn't do anything other than just sort of sit on top of the Volcano & roar but it does look good considering the usual Sy-Fy Channel junk we see. Some of the other effects aren't so impressive, the disappearing house & crumbling rocks in particular look bad but the main star of the show the Behemoth is one of the better looking Sy-Fy Channel beasties. Even though a few people die there's no blood or gore here, like I said the Behemoth is underused & apart from sink a few houses doesn't really do anything of note.With a supposed budget of about $1,300,000 this was filmed in British Columbia in Canada with decent production values & nice enough mountain scenery. The acting is, as usual, forgettable with most of the cast phoning their performances in. The only cast member of note is William B. Davis who played the sinister cigarette smoking man in The X-Files (1993-2002).Behemoth is a boring mix of ecological thriller & giant monster creature feature that has some surprisingly good CGI but little else to recommend it. Bland character's, a plot cobbled together from various ideas & a lack of monster action kill it dead. Even if it's on television for free think twice about wasting your time.