Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

PlatinumRead Just so...so bad

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Paul Andrews Savage Planet is set thousands of year in the future, Earth is slowly dying as air pollution will eventually kill all life. Something needs to be done. Quickly. The Carlson Corporation has discovered a planet twenty thousand light years from earth that is almost identical to our own planet, the Carlson Corporationnmaes it 'Planet Oxygen'. In the hope that Planet Oxygen will be the saviour of Earth & it's dying population an expedition is set up, headed by the big bad boss James Carlson (Roman Podhora) & security dude Randall Cain (Sean Patrick Flanery) along with various other stock character's a team uses 'Deep Space Teleportation' to get to Planet Oxygen in next to no time. Once there they discover that the planet is overrun with genetically nutated killer alien Bears who don't like visitors...Directed by Paul Lynch one has to say that save for one or two mildly amusing gore scenes Save Planet is easily amongst the worst Sci-Fi Channel 'Creature Feature' flicks I have had the misfortune to sit through & it's as simple & straight forward as that. There are so many things wrong both conceptually & technically with Savage Planet it's hard to know where to start. The script is terrible & is full of holes, why lie to the team about the mission? Why not hand pick a team to go there & do what you want? I mean James was the boss right? If the teleportation device needed terminals both on Earth & on Planet Oxygen how did the terminals get there in the first place? Why only teleport a few guns with you? Thousands of years in the future wouldn't they have disintegrater guns or powerful laser guns or something a bit more advanced than an old one-shot-at-a-time Winchester rifle? If the teleportation device works on the principle of DNA how can the team teleport while wearing their clothes? Clothes do not have DNA. Why does everyone keep splitting up when they know vicious alien killer Bears are all over the place? Why doesn't anyone shoot straight? Why was Savage Planet even made? Also why is it in films set during the future when buttons are pressed on computers it makes a silly bleeping sound? What purpose would that serve? That doesn't happen now so why would it change in the future? Tha script is awful, the dialogue is awful, the character's a clichéd, bland & awful, the pace is alright but I was still bored by it & it's totally & utterly stupid. I mean this alien planet just happens to look EXACTLY the same as Earth & just happens to be populated by aliens that EXACTLY like Bears. Savage Planet sucks. End of.The only thing Savage Planet has going for it are a few amusing gore scenes, there's a couple of decapitation including a pretty gory one at the end, someone is split in two, someone is badly mauled, there's a severed hand & a Bear swipes a chunk of flesh from the side of someones body in a very poor CGI effects scene. The bear attacks are pathetic & horribly edited largely from stock footage of Bears. I can't remember a single scene in which a character & live bear appears in the same shot, the majority of the attacks are the same shots of a Bear on it's hind legs growling & then we cut to one of the terrified character's as they react to it. What makes it even worse is that the same stock footage of Bears is used on numerous occasions. Savage Planet is supposedly set in the future but it doesn't look futuristic at all with character's using old rifles & sleeping in rolled up canvas tents, even in the early scenes set on Earth it looks dated already.Shot in Hamilton in Ontario in Canada the production values are poor, it's horribly put together with awful editing & terrible special effects. It does have a good decapitation in it though. The acting is poor & Sean Patrick Flanery needs a new agent if this is anything to go by.Savage Planet is a terrible film in every way imaginable, it really is & it's bad even by Sci-Fi Channel 'Creature Feature' standards which are already set at pretty much rock bottom. Really, really bad.

papadea1953 Like others who have commented on this demented attempt at entertainment, I too was lured into watching by the promising advertisements Sci Fi put out before airing. Like the others, as well, I was sorely disappointed by everything in it. Flannery was the only saving grace, except for the hot blonde, and the director should absolutely be shot without trial and/or left on the planet as suggested by another patriot of good Sci Fi.I too thought (what WAS I thinking!) that the "super predator" would be some "Alien/Predator" hybrid that would defy all imagining and show us another concept of extraterrestrial life. BUT A FRIGGING GRIZZLY!!! Come on Sci Fi, I have seen you do better (sometimes) and I know you guys have more than $250 US dollars in your pockets (for the bear rental) to get better computer programmers to come up with SOMETHING better than those stupid CGI's that were embarrassingly childish. Hell, my 12-year-old niece can do better than you did. You need to fire everyone who worked on that farce from the director to the best boy. No one deserves to watch that trash. The ONLY reason I watched the whole boring thing was that I had already invested 30 minutes of my time and figured I'd see how it ended. Predictably.Your new series "Eureka".... Now THAT's what I'm talking about, humor, entertainment, and something different. If you can find the people to make THAT one up for a season, you can find someone who can make a two hour movie that is at least somewhat entertaining.

Jack *SPOILERS! I EVEN GIVE AWAY THE ENDING! SPOILERS!*In the future, the Earth is polluted and a small team of explorers are teleported to the planet "Oxygen" in hopes that it may someday be our new home. While there, one guy's hand gets chopped off and he just happens to fall into some green fluid which causes his hand to immediately grow back.Skip ahead a few months; Another team is being readied to go to this planet. We spend about half an hour getting to know these characters. It quickly becomes obvious that this is one of those movies where the "bad" characters are at least somewhat sympathetic, while the "good" characters aren't likable at all. Our lead female is whiny, politically correct, and a snob. Eventually they teleport to this planet, and are attacked by bears. The Sci-Fi Channel advertised this movie as if there was going to be some terrifying alien predator on this planet - we get bears. Our lead male "good" character immediately decides to abandon the mission and run home. Lucky these guys weren't on the Mayflower or Columbus wouldn't have made it out of the harbor. So, the "good" guy threatens to kill the only person who knows how to run the teleportation device because he suspects that he's lying about something, and the "bad" guy takes off and leaves them. Brilliant move "good" guy. They go marching through the woods towards the other teleportation pod, getting attacked by bears every few minutes. They load down one guy with a backpack as big as a Volkswagen, then threaten to leave him to be eaten if he falls behind. He falls behind and gets eaten. Then our "good" guy gets knocked unconscious and they pick him up and carry him to safety. Just a little bit of a double standard there, ya think? Anyhow, they get to the teleporter but the company president wants to stay and get a sample of the green goop that can make severed hands grow back. Eventually this guy goes to a cave and he runs into a wall, which causes his head to fly off. Let me repeat that: He runs face first into a stone wall and his head pops off. It's almost as good as the scene where they hide behind a rock and then notice that it's not a rock - it's a bear! Uh...yeah. Okay.So in the end, even though our two "good" characters wanted to quit the mission at the first sign of trouble, and criticized and maligned everyone who wanted to continue, they're perfectly happy to take all the credit for the discovery of the green goop, along with all the profits of course. It's truly heartwarming.

Rick Ferris I can't even go for a three! SciFi should be ashamed. This one's a stinker! Not just the effects (non-existant except for the deep space teleporter), but the acting (pitiful). May it never darken your TV set! 10 lines of comments, huh? Hmmm, well, the lead character, Cain, is the guy from The Dead Zone who Johnny Smith sees will cause a nuclear destruction of Washington, Greg Stilson. His acting skills were perhaps the best of the rest of the team, but that is really not saying anything! The opening scene of the LSD camera work while two people were swinging machetes was so predictable, it was ridiculous! "Gee, I didn't see you walking in front of me when I cut your hand off!" Sheesh! Well, that's 10 lines, about 8 lines too many! ;-)