StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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

martindale-42141 Took an absolutely amazing, well written thriller novel, and turned it into a gory monster movie. The best characters were left out, key plot points were abandoned, and characters died when they couldn't have due to the following books. Even if I hadn't read the book I still would've hated this more than the horrid adaption of Timeline by Michael Crichton.

mayheth I would give it a zero if I could. How can you make a movie based on a book without the main character. The book is an awesome read and this movie was just a waste of time. If you love the book this movie is nothing like it so do not even bother watching it. In fact no one should watch this garbage. The book is a 10/10

Romeo Garcia I remember to see this in 1997 in video rental and like it a lot,The movie is extremely entertainment,great special effects (even now look awesome),great cast, and of course a great director.One of the things that i like it is that the movie don't spend time looking for explanations of where the monsters come from o why is a monster,The movie is about to get out of there alive.That's why the movie works very well because is not spend time in stupid things,like love story or background of the characters.The cast is good:Tom sizemore like always a great actor,Penelope ann miller beautiful and very convincing actress.But of course the one who steal the movie is the monster.Master of special effects Stan Winston (R.I.P.)make another great work give us a very incredible monster.See it don't ask questions! you wont be disappointment.You have my word.

Hayjohowe People don't hate this movie because it has bad effects, or bad acting. They hate it because it didn't stick too well to the book. But I don't know what they're complaining about It's an entertaining movie, and a lot of people hated it, and i just don't understand why. It's about a monster that runs rampid in a museum, and eats people's brains, that's it. If you wanted something more, like the meaning of life, you're not going to get it. But anyway, the film centers on a museum, which has just spent money it didn't really have on a new exhibit called superstitions. Needless to say, opening night is of the utmost importance, but the problem is, people are starting to be killed. By what, no one knows, but the murders are way to grizzly and gruesome to be human. So now it's up to Leiutnenant D'Agosta and a museum employee named Margo Green to find out what is causing the murders, and put an end to it before the opening night of the big exhibition. But despite their attempts, they find no murderer, and the exhibition opening still happens. At this point we've gathered that the killer requires nutrients from a plant that it cannot find. It just so happens that the Hyptothalamus region of the human brain also contains those nutrients. So The murderer, or monster,r because if you haven't figured out that it's a monster at this point, there's nothing to be said to you, takes to eating the museum employees brains to receive enough nutrients to survive. And with the big Exhibition opening with hundreds of people, it's pretty much a big smorgesborg for the creature. So when it attacks, a group of people get trapped in the building by a security system run awry. And now It's up to D'Agosta to get them out to safety. I'm not really going to explain anymore of the plot, because doing so would give away the twist ending, and it's also like trying to explain quantum physics in a few paragraphs that i'm far too lazy to type. But what I really want to talk about, is the comparison between the book and the movie. The Book I felt left something to be desired with the end, and a few scenes were just uneventful, like when the swat team goes into the museum. But the movie does a good job of giving the scenes more life. But it also wrote off a few good characters, and had an ending that was completely different to from the book(But i prefer the movie ending to the book ending). The monster is well made, and the movie is just good. My opinion could be different if i read the book before seeing the movie, but the only reason i wanted to read the book is because i saw the movie. Overall, a good movie that strayed pretty far from the path set by the book, but did a good job with giving some scenes better life then the book did. So I say, go check it out, see for yourself what you think.