![]() He was pretty fun to watch, and I wish there was more of him because he was the only entertaining part of the flick.Jaws didn't just spawn the summer blockbuster. Anyway, one good thing I can point out about Octopus is Ravil Isyanov’s performance as “Casper”, the lead terrorist guy. I don’t know, it probably had a bigger budget. Talk about a clean kill, right? Apparently, it was a TV movie, but so was Peter Benchley’s The Beast, and that had way more heart to it. No blood or anything, despite numerous scenes needing it, like when someone’s throat gets slashed. The CGI leaves a lot to be desired, the acting leaves even more, and the feeling of the film is just so… clean. ![]() Sure, it shows up to attack a cruise ship at the end, but at that point it’s too little, too late. A good portion isn’t even about the massive mollusk! It’s about some terrorist guy and his CIA rival throwing bedroom eyes at one another while the octopus screws around in the background somewhere. One thing a film about a gargantuan devilfish shouldn’t be is boring. I’m talking just tuning out of the film and thinking of more exciting things, like what I was going to eat that night or if I should reorganize my movie collection again to accommodate for my newest arrivals… the flick is really freaking boring. The reason is, at some point during the watch, I just started to zone out. After this most recent viewing, though, I think I finally cracked it. (Directed by John Eyres Starring Jay Harrington, Ravil Isyanov, David Beecroft 2000)įor the longest time, I wasn’t sure why that was the case. Watch it digitally here or physically here. Definitely worth a watch if you haven’t seen it, and worth several more watches if you have! That’s hardcore! Okay, so, it’s a mutant cephalopod, not just a big cephalopod, but normal cephalopods don’t get horror-movie huge in nature so it’s in good, freakish, mutated company. I’m more than willing to give it a pass though due to how much fun everything else is, and how the monster’s tentacles swallow people whole, digesting them before spitting out blood-red skeletal remains. Is it god-awful? No, not at all, but it is noticeable. Okay, so they went and used CGI for the beastie that plagues our heroes… ’90s CGI …’90s CGI that didn’t have Jurassic Park beaucoup bucks behind it, if that’s telling of anything. The cheesy dialogue is great, the absurd guns are great, the set pieces are great, the monster… well… the idea of it is really cool! All under the superb direction of Stephen Sommers (of 1999’s The Mummy fame). O’Connor, and there you go! Famke Janssen, Wes Studi, Jason Flemyng, Djimon Hounsou, Cliff Curtis, Trevor Goddard this flick has an amazing cast. So, who do you get to headline such a fantastic premise? Why, Treat Williams and his trademark smirk, of course! But what about his trusty sidekick? Just throw in Kevin J. Good acting all around, as far as the rest of the cast is concerned. To be fair, he’s being a dick to another dick, so it’s not that bad of a mark on him. Will Peterson of Manhunter fame leads the acting charge as manly man “Whip Dalton” (“Whip Darling” in the book, which sounds like a badass name for a burlesque performer), and I like what he does! He pulls off the loving father/tough fisherman role pretty well, even if his character is kind of a dick sometimes. Luckily, it doesn’t look too shabby, so props to them! Also, the squid screeches like a parrot… yeah, sure, why not? Regardless, the team behind the flick were confident in their monster, as proven by the amount of times they show it. Whenever they show up nowadays, the filmmakers always go the CGI route (more on that later). I’m pretty sure the squid is an animatronic or puppet, which is pretty neat. I agree, that’s pretty daunting… which is why I’m happy to say that it’s pretty good! It’s essentially just Jaws, but with enough changes to keep it fresh. To begin with, this was one of those “two night mini-series events” that were so popular in the ‘90s, so it hits about a three hour runtime.
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