The Beast Below

The had the basis for an interesting B movie. For a Thai movie, they may have had censorship requirements that prevented them from going all out as would have happened in an American movie of the same story. It is a comedy, and there is a lot of slapstick, but again the director doesn't seem to understand how American slapstick is done, and being dubbed, timing and words often ruin the intent. But the scene of the sleeping and snoring lizard on the truck is a real gem. Boss Mhee is thrown in for comic relief but probably couldn't be used fully as would have been done in an American film. The film involves Kao, who returns to his home for the funeral of his uncle. There are flashbacks of lessons learned from being with his uncle. The land is parched and Fon arrives. She knew Kao, and is a You Tube star, so she offers a huge reward if water can be found. The lizard is not pleased. There are things that could be liked, but it suffers in the translation, some of which is not under the control of the director or producer. The opening scene where people first are in the tunnels seemed so fake, it was jolting.. Some of the lizard scenes were real lizards in small sets, and other times the CGI lizard, which wasn't bad. Take the same story, polish the script for American audiences and set it in the American desert Southwest, and one could have a very good movie.

This movie was so horrible it was ridiculously funny. It did provide some very mindless entertainment. The English dubbing was poorly written as real people do not speak that way. Blame it on the translation for using a more formal version of English rather then real world English.

Others have commented on the acting. The acting seems bad as the spoken part does not really align with the body language of the actors.

The cgi is deplorable at best.

With better translations, voices that match the bodies of the actors, and improved CGI. It might get 4-5 stars.

Not a total waste of time but you have to be willing to watch a really stupid movie.

I always support Thai cinema but I have to be honest as well. I watched this movie with little expectation due to its negative criticism which seemed to surpass appreciation. Even so, I found that the movie was still lacking all the elements monster films should have. The giant lizard itself was far inferior to those we have seen in the classic works. It was less scary, less mysterious, less powerful. The dialogues sounded unnatural. The acting looked unconvincing or, at least, it could be better. The storyline didn't captivate my attention. It was filled too much with unnecessary situations.

If the filmmaking team was more careful about the screenplay and acting, the movie would come out finer.

I had high hopes for this movie. Because this movie company advertises a lot. But it came out so bad it was B GRADE MOVIES.

I hope the next story won't be this bad again. Because Thai movies only have good concept movies but the script is very bad.

I dont understand about their reason to make this movies. If you want to see idiot people die maybe you'll like this movie, BUT!! Trust me you'll never like this movie for sure.