Manthast Absolutely amazing

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

hammerheadshome the best part of this movie was its scenery. basically it was so choppy nothing flowed not even the plot. the was so pathetic the acting was so terrible. the acting was also bad . like i said before the cgi was an embarrassing, and poorly done to say the least i remember when the syfy channel put out very good movies a long ago. over the past years they seem to have their heads up their bottoms with the movies. what a shame.

mrbassman777 This movie is not as bad as it is made out to be. First off it is surprisingly well shot, and the scenery is beautiful. Secondly, this is a B movie. It didn't have a huge budget, and it shows. That's all right though; it is what it is, an old school monster movie. My main complaint is that not enough people got eaten by the monster. Some people have complained about the cgi. I've seen much worse animation, especially in older movies. The animation used was perfectly acceptable. This movie isn't the best nor is it the worst, though it definitely deserves better than the appalling 3.4 rating it has.

Paul Magne Haakonsen The DVD cover for this movie does look quite nice, and it does reflect the movie, in a sense. By that, I mean the monster is there, yes, the people are there, yes, but that level of danger and life-threatening situation never was present in the entire movie.The story in "Behemoth" is about a small town that is located in the mountains, where they always have experiences small trembles in the ground. However, recently these tremblings have grown in intensity and frequency, and fissures of carbon monoxide is starting to appear throughout the mountains. Something has awoken beneath the mountains, and people are about to find out.Storywise, then this is a standard monster movie by the run-of-the-mill given this is a SyFy Channel movie. So, if you are familiar with their movies, then you know exactly what you will get here.The creature itself actually looked good and was nicely animated; good CGI effects and it came off as believable - well aside from its sheer size.There were some really bad plot holes in this movie. First of all, where would a creature of this size have been lurking underneath the ground? It just doesn't make any sense for it to never have been detected before. And also, given the size of its body, just what would it have been eating and sustaining itself by? It just doesn't add up anywhere. Furthermore, the military had no idea what they were dealing here, but still they had managed to build a weapon to destroy it and knew that it was the ONLY thing that could destroy it. So the military works by psychics now? And finally, why would the Behemoth, with its massive size, be concerned about eliminating a few pesky humans on the mountain? Surely it wouldn't even notice them, much less bother with them as humans would be insignificant gnats in comparison to its bulk and size.And throughout the entire movie, there weren't really any moments where you felt that anyone was at risk or in danger in any kind of way. The was no proper atmosphere to the movie, or at least the director failed to establish such a feeling.As for the people on the cast list, well they were doing good enough jobs, however, there were times where the acting came off as wooden and simply not believable. Especially when confronted with the revealing of the Behemoth - there weren't just any sense of dread or hopelessness. It was just like they were 'ah so what, this happens every day in USA' and just shrugged it off. I am pretty sure that a mountain-sized tentacled monster would install a paralyzing fear in most people, or at least send them fleeing for their very lives."Behemoth" is good enough entertainment for what it is, a simplistic monster movie that is predictable and follows the 'how to make a gargantuan monster movie' page-by-page.I am rating the movie a 4 out of 10 stars simply because of the creature effects - it was the one that carried the bulk of the movie, in more than one way, pardon the pun.

tryst46 Almost reminiscent of Final Fantasy with a huge being that lives inside the earth, protecting it from harm.Cindy Busby makes the whole movie worth the watch for the guys but without her, it would probably rate little more than a typical low budget B movie more suited to B movie fans. Sadly, she plays the part of the cliché blonde bimbo who screams a lot and has to have a big brave man to help her. Nobody in their right mind would see a big 2 foot wide eye staring at them through a hole in the rocks and then wait around to see what is going to happen next. As with most cliché'd horror movies, there is one old man who knows what is happening right from the start but nobody will believe him. Also the military know what is happening and have a weapon to kill it but have not warned anybody or evacuated the area. Like the military would believe Mayan folk tales more than anybody else :/ The monster is inside the earth and as big as the entire planet, it can make it's presence felt right across the globe. However, it chooses not to pop up in a heavily populated and pollution spilling metropolis but instead, some backwater town that is really little more than a permanent logging camp.I really feel that the B movie script did most of the actors a great dis-service and the weak story failed to keep you rooted to your chair. overall, a reasonable idea spoiled by bad scripts and all too obvious cliché'd events.One continuity blooper is when the diner drops into the ground. As the old guy says they have fallen into a sink hole, you can see tape on the window covering a 2 foot diagonal crack in the lower left corner of the middle window. The next scene where you see a huge tentacle moving around the diner through the window, the window has no tape but there is also no crack either. In the next scene, the old guy finds the crack with a tiny hole and they both cover it with tape to stop the CO2 from getting in and suffocating them. The whole idea of the tape is also pretty dumb considering that there is a huge wooden frame double entrance door to the diner that wouldn't even be airtight.