The Rig (2010)

The Rig was forced upon me because I decided to watch it before it expired on instant and I always try to watch everything on my queue before it expires. That being said, I probably would never have watched this movie without that nudge...It starts off with some of the worst acting I have ever seen and that is saying a lot because I've seen some bad movies. Some movies can overcome even bad acting if the plot is good. This movie is not one of those. After the horrible voice-over, the movie just goes downhill. There are some decent things about the movie but nothing that can make up for what this movie is lacking. William Forsythe, Art LaFleur and (maybe) Serah D'Laine make every other person's poor acting stand out that much more. Unfortunately for Forsythe and LaFleur, their costume department decided that it was necessary for them to wear pants that go up to their man boobs. The other good thing I can think to say is that the poster looks great.The major problem I have is that The Rig hits on just about every one of my major pet peeves about any feature. There are some flash backs to a scene that you just saw 5 minutes ago... The writer uses poor dialog such as "I am your daughter" and "we are brothers" because it seems as if they think the audience is made of up a group of fools that cannot figure out what relationship everyone has to each other without it being in your face. Horrible. The graphics are poor at best and probably unnecessary at times. The alien / monster thing made me laugh out loud with how poorly done it was. It looked like a guy in a leotard with an alien mask who loved to be in a 4 point stance at all times. William Forsythe is on the cover of every poster as the main actor in this movie and he dies halfway into it. The list goes on and on.Like I said, William Forsythe and Art LaFleur are good but nothing can overcome the amount of flaws in The Rig. It's not the worst movie I have ever seen but it was pretty bad.

When the crew of a storm-battered oil rig finds themselves being killed off one-by-one, they discover a giant creature has come on-board and have to fight it off before a rescue team can come get them.This must be one of the most disappointing efforts to come along, since the potential for this one to be awesome was frightening. When this one gets going there's some good parts here that really impresses, which starts with the really fun and graphic attacks here that are rather fun with the creature resorting to rather fun sneak attacks to make it rather enjoyable of it coming out of nowhere to launch a graphic attack. The ambush in the office and a later one in the pantry are the best attacks, the former for its suddenness while the later offers the greatest kill of the bunch, as well as providing the great launching point for the investigation into them being under attack. There's also the series of encounters hunting the creature running around the rig that's quite fun here, with these issues all coming together as this takes place in a creepy location with a creepy vibe during a time-period designed for letting loose with the atmosphere and an old-school style rubber monster get a great premise behind it. In the end, it doesn't mean any of it since there's just way too many flaws for the positives to go anywhere. Most shocking is the fact that the creature is so hidden from view that we barely get enough time to determine what it actually is, as no one provides any info about it nor is that expected, and that really damages this by never getting any solid answers for anything. We don't even get a full-on look at the creature to get a complete size and look of it, and the composite takes from it are of no help either at building up any kind of idea about it since the darkness during the attacks as well as the rapid quick-cut editing leaves even more to imagination. Another problem here is the fact that the creature attacks come so late which isn't all that much better as this one run through so much extraneous subplots and unnecessary scenes that really make up the biggest time killer here by featuring so much time wasting points in their life on the rig and the secrets they have it only proves how boring the beginning is. Even the action at the end when they're hunting it down is substandard due to the flimsy action that has to keep the creature hidden, emphasizing the other problems here while also cutting away for a lame subplot about the brother not wanting on the rig and a prologue longer than the actual finale to hammer home how ludicrously short it was. Which was too bad, as it could've been a golden monster movie.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity and a sex scene.

This horror film is set aboard an actual oil rig--one that was the first of its type and is a museum today. A cute twist is having one of the characters actually wearing a t-shirt for the museum in one scene! On the rig, some underwater beast is disturbed and comes aboard to pick off the crew one by one."The Rig" is a low budget horror film with very modest production values in most ways. However, in two ways the film was quite outstanding--the blood and gore was a lot more realistic and profuse than you might expect and the musical score was great and really added to the tension. Otherwise, the film is clearly inspired by films such as "Alien", "Predator" and "The Thing". The idea of an alien slowly picking off members of a group certainly is NOT original and the writing could have been a lot better (the characters sometimes seem like caricatures and the ending is weak). It also suffers some from a few stupid clichés (such as adding nudity where it is pretty inappropriate) and seems a bit formulaic. Overall, the way I see it, if you like gore and low-budget monster films, you'll probably enjoy the film. If not, you'll probably wonder why you've wasted nearly and hour and a half of your life.

...and whatever precious fluids, bodily or otherwise, that went into this shoddy piece of make-work cinema (and I use the term loosely, given that it was obviously shot on Hi-Def video and went straight to Shlockbuster and whatever other outlets were foolish enough to carry it). It's a snooze of a creature-feature (with a monster that's, at best, an upscale Halloween costume) with a script likely written in haste on scrap paper, indifferent acting (these people had to know they were in a pile of dreck, and William "The Rock" Forsythe should be slapped for slumming; Art "Field of Dreams" LaFleur can at least be forgiven for needing work), horrendously awful direction, static, boring camera-work. A quick scan of the credits reveals the sad truth that "The Rig" is a vanity piece, a "family affair" designed to spotlight the son of the producer and the co-screen-meddler, whose turn as a Colin Hanks wannabe is cheapened even further by his doubling as the critter. The "original" screenplay by one of the ostensible leads isn't; it's totally derivative, unexciting, and outright stupid. The only thing actually "original" is that it was shot on a real deep-sea drilling rig. Yay! I honestly have no idea why I've already wasted so many words on this bottom-of-the-barrel nonsense. Whatever budget "The Rig" had sank right to the bottom of the ocean, as will this risible production in the sea of video entertainment. Back to the drawing board with all of you, and please don't show your faces again until you've got something worthwhile in hand.IMDbers, you've been warned. This is fast-forward crap of the lowest order.