wadechurton As you can see from the general tone of the user reviews, there is a great deal wrong with 'The Rig'. These are my additions to that corpus of knowledge. 1) If you're going to steal 'Alien', the least you can do is make your 'creature' look a bit different. Why is something which supposedly evolved at the bottom of the sea going to develop feet, legs or indeed a humanoid body at all? It's a guy in a suit, and all the editing in the world isn't going to disguise that. Not even if you dub on 'lizard-breathing' noises, which happens pretty much every time you see it. In fact, the only time the monster(s) make a noise is when they appear on the screen. 2) If you're going to steal 'The Thing', don't draw attention to it by having one of the characters describe the creature as 'The Thing'. That's just the sort of thing we viewers pick up on as the failed 'hide in plain sight' script gambit. Its intention is to cover up a blindingly obvious script deficit by attempting to be clever and 'postmodern' about it, but it never works. In all seriousness, even if you have a '10 for $10:00' hire deal and can't find one last DVD which looks even mildly interesting, think twice about 'The Rig', and keep thinking until you decide against it. You might need that 90 minutes for something more rewarding.

Scarecrow-88 An oil rig opens a hole on the ocean floor while drilling, releasing ferocious creatures which attack humans seemingly for the hell of it. The creatures have scales down their backs and tails, a mouth full of razor sharp teeth, slimy black bodies, alien eyes, and long talons to rip into flesh. These ocean monsters also shriek and move really fast so it's hard to pick them up on the security monitors or hunt and kill them. During a stormy night, a skeleton crew on board the rig are savagely butchered one at a time(as in most horror movies, it is when each character is separated from the group or working alone in an area without prior knowledge of the monster's existence), and it will take the remaining survivors formulating a plan to trick the creatures into an isolated area to hopefully set up an explosion which will kill them using gas and flares. William Forsythe turns in his 15 minutes of performance, boosting the film's credentials with a shot in the arm before leaving in grisly fashion, as the boss of the oil rig crew, very protective of his bright daughter who also works alongside him--she is dating a member of the oil rig crew much to his disapproval. Not an original bone in its body, THE RIG is what it is, a creature feature on board an oil rig in the middle of an ocean where a motley crew of blue collar workers find themselves in a fight for survival. Art LaFluer(TRANCERS) has a small but important part as the head honcho over a number of oil rigs which mine the ocean for precious resources, Forsythe one of his most revered crew bosses(he mentions that men are waiting in line to get on Forsythe's oil rig). A heavy, often overbearing orchestral score rarely stops and there are precious few moments of silence to allow the viewer to hold their breath anticipating the next monster strike on a potential victim. I've always felt quiet can be just as effective as a loud score which doesn't let up. While the attacks are over with relatively quickly, I do believe there's probably enough graphic violence to satiate the appetite of gorehounds, at the very least you get quite a bit of blood shed. The acting isn't the film's strong point, but I did come away admiring the attempts by the writers to inject the film with some characters(the sibling dispute between brothers, one tired of living under the other's shadow, the loving bond between a father and his daughter, the experienced army man with wisdom he shares with others, etc)that aren't just introduced and killed right off the bat(there are some characters, however, who aren't as developed who merely service the film as fodder for the beasts). The oil rig itself is quite massive, a perfect playground for voracious creatures to run rampant. The movie has some really underwhelming moments of CGI fire and explosions. I will say that I think fans of creature features might want to check it out. The director keeps the creatures fairly hidden, only bits seen on screen..and they bleed blue that is actually flammable! Fans of Forsythe see a different side to him than you are normally accustomed to, his personality not as much hostile as stern, a very demanding employer, but reasonable if expecting efficiency and order from his crew. The loving and devoted father isn't a character we are used to seeing the formidable Forsythe portray.

manjodude It's the same old story of a group of people being hunted down by some monster that's fast and deadly. But the horrifying extermination is happening not at a jungle, a run-down building or an isolated farmhouse, but at a freaking oil rig! That's new :)Probably the only plus point is the suspense, which's nice. And of course, how can I forget? The hot skin show!The acting by all is mediocre (William Forsythe including) and the monsters turn out to be dumbos by the end of the movie. I guess the script writers lost patience or just ran out of creativity.Tagline of the movie - "Some things are not to be disturbed." Yes, leave the movie alone!

MrGKB ...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.