The Thing Below (2004)

That was an excellent one.

Best movie of this year hands down!

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

I can not recommend this movie less. It is so stunningly beneath awful that it drops through the floor of the universe and comes out on top. If that makes sense. Which this movie does not.In a nutshell, the story is a composite of Alien, Event Horizon, Leviathan, and Ghost Ship, with a knock-off crew from The Abyss and Armaggeddon. Seriously, you have seen this story many, many times before. And why is there always one guy with a cowboy hat?Stilll, if you have a Roku box and time not spent on something more productive like porn, this movie offers so many unintentional laughs that it's really worth watching. It truly earns the Academy award for the very antithesis of good dialogue. And the casting? Ah, tres merdefique! The casting director's couch is still sweating Astroglide and incompetence. Personal favorite is the hottie "professor" that might be old enough to vote 5 years from now.In the end though, it's the horrendous CGI that truly lowers the bar for all. Rendered at some resolution so low it must be measured in Kelvin, the creature is a testimonial to any 12-year-old with a dream, and a pirated copy of After Effects.

Nothing really special, scientists on a secret oil rig find a creature in the centre of the earth. A family member of mine thought she saw this at first because the beginning wasn't anything different than so many other movies of this genre.Completely unoriginal tentacle monster creature, with crappy 3D effects on the tentacles.Some plot errors I noticed. Considering supposedly this creature can create hallucinations based on what you want to see, why was it that that girl and old guy (I forgot their names, don't care to remember) were together and he could see her hallucination? Then all of a sudden HE'S THE ONE WHO INFECTS HER? That was weird, considering it didn't go after him in the first place. What happened when that guy like pulled him out of the hallucination where that other guy with the disk was being attacked by the monster (not to mention his voice was funny even though he was not yet infected).As well, it was pretty funny when I'm sure it wasn't intended to be the main source of "humour" in this movie. The scene with the cowboy was funny in a "why is this here? it doesn't even belong". The striptease scene was pure fan service. (Not that that is a bad thing, but really, it was just to keep the audience interested in such a dull film).The whole concept of a creature that have you hallucinations into deceiving others of your team into being infested is a good concept, too bad it was executed so poorly.The ending was crap, in fact, it didn't give any originality and looked as if the director just pulled a Generic Action/Adventure Movie Ending from the Hat. So they throw a bunch of explosives down the elevator (why would there even be a self-destruct device in a government research lab?) and then that explosion blows up the rig and creature with it, while they jump 30 metres into the cold water and hope to be rescued? Not to mention that kind of jump could break some bones in the process. So then they're on a ship, getting back to land, and all of a sudden the women who lost her husband (terrible acting on behalf when he was killed, I should note) turns into that other guy and is actually the monster! At first I thought there could be a sequel (please don't) and then I realized this movie probably bombed in theatres and I doubt the studio wants to make a sequel (of what, the creature invading a large American city like Boston and having a team of people try and kill it (hmm, sound familiar to this movie?) and finally killing it. Leaving you to think "What was the point of watching both of these movies" when they could have killed movie, instead of having to make another one that just has a different setting but the ending is slightly different.Though I didn't see the first 20 minutes of this movie (It was aired on SPACE as 'Sea Ghost') I know I didn't miss anything that even a moron could get from watching the rest of the movie.Overall, I would still recommend this movie if you want to laugh at its errors and mistakes. I enjoy these types of mock B-movies, love how nothing fits and they just throw bits and pieces in and call it a movie.

One of the most horrible movies I've ever seen, if not the single most horrible. I have no idea why it was made.The plot, possibly the best part of the film, was awful. It switched on and off between two extremes: either it was bizarre and confusing, or it was dull and predictable.The acting would have made William Shatner sick to his stomach. The dialogue was written trite and cliché, and the delivery certainly didn't help. It was all strained, and in the rare case where there was emotion in a line, it was fake-sounding, and sometimes even the wrong emotion. It seemed like they were reading lines off the script for the first time. And the directing was just as bad. None of the motions that anybody made were natural-looking. Just a tip for the 'actors' in this film: if the camera is moving to try to (poorly) replicate the feel of a tossing boat, it's best not to just stand still, but to actually be tossed around. Especially if there's one actor who's moving around (albeit awkwardly) as if he's being tossed by the boat in the same room with you, at the same time that you're standing still! And the CGI was horrible. 'Nuff said there.

The worst movie I have EVER seen! I could not even finish watching it all. Please, don't waste your time with this sorry movie. Special fx looked stupid!! Story line is not even a good one. I normally watch everything no matter how bad the movie is. But,this movie I couldn't get to the middle without shutting it off. Why was this movie made?? You want to see a good movie? Try Darkness Falls or Deep Blue Sea. The Devil's Rejects was a very good movie, too. The Island was underrated, but a very good movie. All in all, The Thing Below had poor acting. The scenes I seen are not even worth mentioning. This movie is a one rating compared to Deep Blue Sea witch is a 7. The scale is from 1(the worst) to 10(the greatest).