Richard Dominguez Another Good TV Movie, This Time The Residents Of The Town Called Ascension Battle A Sleeping Giant Buried Beneath The Mountain For Thousands Of Years ... I Thought The Acting Was Fine And I Liked Each Little Story Of Survival For The Different Residents Of The Town ... The Monster Isn't The Highest Of Special Effects But I Thought It Was Unique Looking ... While This Is No Blockbuster I Had A Great Time Watching It ...

highwaytourist 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.

Paul Andrews 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.

tryst46 Almost reminiscent of Final Fantasy with a huge being that lives inside the earth, protecting it from harm.Cindy Busby makes the whole movie worth the watch for the guys but without her, it would probably rate little more than a typical low budget B movie more suited to B movie fans. Sadly, she plays the part of the cliché blonde bimbo who screams a lot and has to have a big brave man to help her. Nobody in their right mind would see a big 2 foot wide eye staring at them through a hole in the rocks and then wait around to see what is going to happen next. As with most cliché'd horror movies, there is one old man who knows what is happening right from the start but nobody will believe him. Also the military know what is happening and have a weapon to kill it but have not warned anybody or evacuated the area. Like the military would believe Mayan folk tales more than anybody else :/ The monster is inside the earth and as big as the entire planet, it can make it's presence felt right across the globe. However, it chooses not to pop up in a heavily populated and pollution spilling metropolis but instead, some backwater town that is really little more than a permanent logging camp.I really feel that the B movie script did most of the actors a great dis-service and the weak story failed to keep you rooted to your chair. overall, a reasonable idea spoiled by bad scripts and all too obvious cliché'd events.One continuity blooper is when the diner drops into the ground. As the old guy says they have fallen into a sink hole, you can see tape on the window covering a 2 foot diagonal crack in the lower left corner of the middle window. The next scene where you see a huge tentacle moving around the diner through the window, the window has no tape but there is also no crack either. In the next scene, the old guy finds the crack with a tiny hole and they both cover it with tape to stop the CO2 from getting in and suffocating them. The whole idea of the tape is also pretty dumb considering that there is a huge wooden frame double entrance door to the diner that wouldn't even be airtight.