Leofwine_draca BENEATH LOCH NESS is an attempt to tell a Scottish-set story when in reality the film was made in California. Just consider that for a moment. Sunny, sun-drenched California, which looks nothing like windy and rainy Scotland. A cast populated by actors attempting to pull of Scottish accents. As you might have guessed, this is laughable stuff indeed, and a complete non-starter of a movie. A pity given that it's the first Loch Ness-themed film I've watched.For a monster flick this is also poor insofar as it contains barely any monster action. Most of the narrative is filled up with petty politics and rivalry and there are just a few murky underwater shots of supposed monster hunting. I suppose the writers should be praised for constructing a character-focused storyline due to the hampered budget, but when the performances are this poor the whole thing feels like a massive time waste.A chunky Patrick Bergin, unrecognisable from earlier in his career, is the stolid hero who fails to lift the interest. An equally bulky Vernon Wells, one of my favourite villainous performers of the 1980s, attempts a halfway-decent Scottish accent and that's about it. It pains me to say it that the worst acting comes from Lysette Anthony whose wooden style of performing is jaw-droppingly bad. It comes as little surprise to see her talents have migrated to TV's HOLLYOAKS in recent years.

Keith Pangilinan As a fan of "Mystery Science Theater 3000," I have quite the tolerance of crappy cinema. Telefutura & THIS channel show 'em every night. But hard to believe, I stumbled upon "Beneath Loch Ness" on CW12 on a Saturday night. I didn't watch all of the film, but I did learn enough to say that this movie depicts Scotland as accurately as Sam Bacile depicted Islam in "Innocence of Muslims." But this ain't no movie worth dying for (literally) or sparking a worldwide protest. Just type a few reviews somewhere online outside IMDb.com w/ numerous obscenities (e.g. "'Beneath Loch Ness' %&~?ing sucks!!") as you would any other bad movie. But the fact that I discovered "Beneath Loch Ness" on The CW proves that it didn't get enough negative notoriety for audiences to hate it like some Razzie-winning films or anything from The IMDb Bottom 100. I did have the somewhat misfortune to watch it in English unlike most movies on Telefutura to learn that the Scots sounded a little too American. "Beneath Loch Ness" has stars (in name only) like Patrick Bergin, the villain in the Julia Roberts film "Sleeping with the Enemy" & Brian Wimmer, who I only recall in the TV series remake of "Flipper," also featuring a pre-famous Jessica Alba. The underwater depiction was flawed in the sense that the movement of objects was as swift as it would be on land, as in the scene where the divers find the pink eggs or something like that. Not only that, the explosion of the depth charges looked like explosions in the air. I've seen better underwater explosions on "Gorgo" (as seen on MST3K). But I can't finish this review w/o the most egregious flaw of location scouting. If you're gonna make a movie set in Scotland but can't actually be in Scotland, choose a similar location w/ mild, temperate climate. & there are many of 'em, like New Zealand or Nova Scotia ("New Scotland" in Latin). Or the other side of N. America - BC or WA; everybody makes movies there! But this Loch Ness was actually Castaic Lake in California. As a Californian who's traveled many times between Bakersfield & the L.A. metro area, I recognized the Mediterranean landscape w/o Googling it! Castaic Lake is the first exit on the I-5 south after passing through the mountains that leads to fast food restaurants & gas stations! Needles 2 say, "Beneath Loch Ness" is typical crappy movie-making from its bombastic CGI monster to cookie-cutter characters & plot. Watch only while channel surfing & if you have a high tolerance of stupid cinema.

beardsleythesaint Wow this is a truly excrementious film! For any movie fan watching this is the equivalent of being force fed a cold bowl of sick. After flicking through the TV channels I found this and unwittingly decided to give it a go once I noticed that Vernon 'Bennett' Wells was in it. Within a matter of seconds I realised my will to live was being drained by this ungodly creation. All those involved should hang themselves or their heads in shame. It's about the Loch Ness yet it's blatantly not filmed in Scotland and I don't think anyone of the cast has been to Scotland, let alone comes from there! The accents are atrocious, but there are so many other things that will leave the viewer opened mouthed at the sheer crapness of it all. Avoid like the plague!!!

Mel J As a Scot, when I saw this film, I was left numbed at how shocking it was and I don't mean that in a good way. This 'film' (and I use that term in the loosest sense of the word) is not only an insult to Scotland but it is embarrassing for the Hollywood producers and actors involved in this project.Aside from the fact the storyline dire and the acting utterly bland, the special effects look as if they were put together by three-year-olds on their nursery school computer . However, the most pathetic point about this film was the fact it clearly was not set anywhere remotely near the UK, let alone Loch Ness. It was bad enough that the cast were mainly Americans (or Americans with bad accents) but the cars drove on the wrong side of the road, the police wore American uniforms and little effort was made to even pretend the American location of this film was supposedly Scotland. Then you had the stereotypical Scots who graced the background every so often; I honestly was waiting for them to shout 'och, aye the noo' then do the Highland fling in their kilt with the haggis dancing by their sides.Take a leaf out of Nessie's book when it comes to 'Beneath Loch Ness' and hide far, far away from it (although Scots may want to see it with the view that it is pure comedy in a 'so bad it's good' way).