djfrost-46786 Grew up with this movie. Really enjoyed watching it again.

quridley What starts as an entertainingly inept mashup of "Alien", "The Abyss", "The Fly", "The Thing" and even "Jaws" slowly unravels into a cynical, tasteless, remorseless, uninspired and depressing piece of public trash. There is no sense in any of it. T he worst part is seeing so many classic B-actors of the era slumming and being wasted. But the performances of Ernie Hudson, Meg Foster, Richard Crenna and so many others lifts the awfully directed, awfully written, awfully edited footage afloat.It had to have been made by a fly-by-night Z-grade indie production more accustomed to cheap porn or Straight-to-VHS store idiocy. At least, thats the vibe it gives. But I'm sure there are some tasteless, racist, infantile and very deprived people who would find this decent. I did when I was 8 years old, but now its just an embarrassing experience.This is a testament to all of the worst qualities of film in the late 80s into the early 90s, the negative result of the commercialism, post-modernism and political incorrectness of some major filmmakers of the 70s and 80s. This tripe has flowed ever since.Leviathan is like a prototype for popular hollow spoofs like "Pacific Rim" and America's "Godzilla" movies. Its trying to be something and failing but you accept the failure because of the stars and familiar special effects. Avoid this movie unless you want to learn what NOT to do as a filmmaker and what an audience-hating film feels like.

hwg1957-102-265704 Finally got around to seeing 'Leviathan' and was duly unimpressed. While extracting gold and silver the workers at an undersea mining facility discover a sunk Russian ship and collect a few items from it including a bottle of vodka. Some of them drink it and release a something which goes around killing the few workers because it needs...yes, human blood. So follows a series of clichés taken from other science fiction and horror movies including the last minute no- it's-not-dead-yet cliché. It was not exciting and even the legendary Jerry Goldsmith's music score was a damp squib. The facility itself is huge and only eight people run it. It is a well designed series of sets and miniatures that convey it's huge size. The creature effects are quite good, suitably icky when necessary. Apart from that it was just about bearable. Fine actors like Peter Weller, Hector Elizondo, Daniel Stern and Richard Crenna floundered about and Meg Foster is shamefully under used. Amanda Pays looked pretty though.The plot didn't make sense. What was the monster anyway apart from being a monster? It is also amusing to see how newly formed monsters learn horror movie tropes so quickly. It also struck me that when they first built that huge underwater facility why did they never came across the Leviathan then which was only a five minutes of oxygen in a tank's walk away? Anyway, as a film about the dangers of drinking vodka I suppose it will do.

Alondro I give it a 3 because the effects of the monster-mutant thing creature(s) are pretty convincingly done.But this movie is pure B-movie schlock, just with a studio budget. It's a jumble of bits of other, better movies; and is about as generic and predictable as it gets. You feel no tension at all; firstly because it takes half the movie for anything to happen, and secondly you know what's going to happen and who's going to bite it well before the tentacle monster gets them.It really is just "Alien" meets "The Thing" under the sea. Heck, the crew are even mining minerals. All it needed was a nuclear self-destruct.I'd compare it to "Life"... which is practically the exact same movie, now in space, with an even bigger budget.