Octopus
Octopus
| 21 September 2000 (USA)
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During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, a Russian submarine strays into American waters. On board is a nuclear cargo destined for Castro. The Americans attack and destroy the sub. 38 years later US submarine Roosevelt is in the same waters. An unknown object attacks and disables the sub with devastating force and drags the vessel to the bottom of the ocean. What lies on the ocean bed beggars belief: dozens of wrecks, among them the sub destroyed 38 years ago. Whatever was on board has fed a creature of unbelievable size and strength! The only way out is the emergency submersible and a passing cruise ship. Above or below the water, there is no escape from the monster mutant octopus with a nuclear diet...

Reviews
Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
Stevieboy666 An American submarine is attacked by a giant octopus, but there is also danger on the inside in the shape of a dangerous terrorist (not helped by the most inept special agent in history!). If you enjoy creature movies with dumb plots, bad acting, terrible scripts and cheap "special" effects then this one is for you. Otherwise give it a wide berth. The only thing that I gained from watching this rubbish was a headache!
swifty77 I wanted this to be a good film. I really wanted to be able to log onto IMDb and blow you away with my opinion that 'Octopus' wasn't actually a bad movie. But John Eyres let me down and now I begrudgingly come to you and beg you not to watch this 100 minutes of disappointment. Let me start by telling you that the premise of the movie wasn't actually that bad. If done right, it would've made for a decent monster attack movie. But other than the premise 'Octopus' was a film that just didn't have a clue what genre to put itself into. Post introduction, I found myself watching a spy conspiracy thriller that involved a terrorist blowing up a kid in the US Embassy, a gunfight in the streets and an exploding car. People died, man, and I felt this had somehow turned into a cheap 'Die Hard' and was wondering how the f*** a mutant octopus would fit into the story. The truth is the octopus never really did fit into the story but that might have been more due to the fact we saw it for all of twenty seconds at the end. Which is a shame as the CGI was by no means as awful as it is for most straight to video releases. The terrorist subplot was weak and made the story farcical. The black guy died. Lowery's tough action chick was a mess of sexual stereotypes. The protagonist - I don't even know the guy's name - was a massive wet s***. The octopus was the most realistic element of the plot and, as a supposed monster movie, this film would definitely have improved if there had actually been more monster in it. But I guess that's what 'Octopus 2' gives us. I hope...
TheLittleSongbird While expecting little from Octopus I was preparing to be mildly entertained. In all honesty I was more entertained by Spiders and Frankenfish of the one word creature features, but Octopus is better than Crocodile. It is not a complete disaster, I did think the cast did a better than average job considering what they had to work with, and the ending was exciting and intense with the Octopus, who was otherwise not very scary and was under-utilised, making its best appearance. However, the effects are very artificial-looking and don't move very convincingly, and the hackneyed editing doesn't help either. The script is cheesy and muddled, the story is mostly dull and predictable with any scenes meaning to be scary undermined by a real lack of tension and like I said with Crocodile I wouldn't have minded whether the characters were clichéd if they weren't so poorly developed and shallow. Overall, the ending is good but the movie overall is pretty bad. 3/10 Bethany Cox
noonien-soong This movie could have been a lot better, but it ended up in too much drama and too little squid. The dialogs and the overall acting in this movie is poor. I couldn't take any of the characters serious. However, as this is a creature flick, I am always willing to put the acting aside. This didn't help one bit though, as the CGI and the octopus itself was terrible. If it had only killed some of the poorly acting characters in the movie, then it would have been better, but this it didn't even manage.... even though the size was gigantic. And the size... well thats also a problem in this movie. Normally I say yes to super sized sea creatures. The bigger the better. And this octopus was BIG. Kraken big. However, it fails in it's size because of the whole submarine plot. This octopus is about 200 feet, when you compare it in the end to the persons it grasp and the ship it is attacking, but it had problems destroying a small submarine, that is half the size of the ship in the end, which it then had no problem tipping over and destroying? That does not make sense. Well, this whole movie does not makes sense anyway... my advice... watch Rogue or It Came from Beneath the Sea... so much better!