Savage Planet

We all know that a movie billed as a "SciFi Channel Original" is pretty much guaranteed to be terrible. But in a galaxy of terrible movies, this is about the worst I have seen. Worse than "The Bone Snatcher." Even worse than "Dog Soldiers." When I saw the ads for it, I thought it looked like it might be along the lines of "The Legacy of Heorot," an excellent Larry Niven sci-fi action adventure novel. Not even remotely like it, unfortunately.

Let's put it this way: No story. No acting. No production values. Not even any interesting action sequences. The only, and I must emphasize ONLY, thing that raises this from a 1 to a 2 is that Reagan Pasternak ("Allison") looks rather nice in a few scenes.

Hey, I knew it would be bad going in...but no way did I ever expect anything this bad.

Sci Fi takes it to a new low with a promising premise and low budget production values. It is sad what they have done, and if you choose to see this movie, you will know exactly where all the money went! Check out the fascinating 'moonwalking' 'monsters'. I can't believe I dvr'd it! The fact that the first comment covers almost everything I noticed about this film makes it difficult to actually write 10 lines of comment on this travesity. This movie could have been a dozen different movies, with only the initial premise and settings being changed. If you want to have a worse movie viewing experience I suggest you watch the Sci-Fi Movie 'Leeches', or the Wolves of Wall Street. I gave this a 2 out of 10 because a 1 is being reserved for something truly vile and unrelenting. My wife said 'why did you bother?'. I only wish I knew.

Calling this abomination bad doesn't do it justice. It's beyond bad, it's downright Ed Wood. Action scenes which look like they were filmed by some kid with a handycam in his back yard. Horrible junky props. Special effects which are so incredibly awful you laugh out loud at them.

I gave it a two, and it only scored that high because they at least managed to find a good-looking cast, and the first one to die wasn't who I expected.

If (like me) you don't mind watching the occasional garbage movie just to see how bad things can get, this is worth a view. Everybody else should run away.

I saw this on the night it premiered on the sci-fi channel, expecting for some mindless monster-violence fun, (ala Sabretooth, Dinocroc, etc.) unfortunately I found this movie to be plagued by confusing plot lines, maddeningly boring and stereotypical characters and a monster so dull (not to mention almost impossible from an evolutionary probability standpoint) that it didn't keep me interested during a single part of the movie. The CGI/blood and gore was awful, which can be expected from a Sci-Fi original, however the decision to mix what I suppose was meant to look like live-action footage of this creature's equivalent on Earth was overwhelmingly corny. Above all, and forgive my redundancy the creature was totally dull and unimaginative. Prehistoric alien monster bears. Laughable premise and still poorly done.

Yet another unimaginative monsters-chase-humans flick created for the SciFi Channel. I won't reveal the monster for fear you might laugh yourself into a coma. A scientific team with soldiers teleports to a far off planet (a la Stargate) to find a plant that will produce enough oxygen to save Earth, which is choking on its own pollution. The gear everyone carries looks like toys and the canvas tents and cots don't seem very futuristic. Things go wrong, the team is stranded, and the monsters pick them off as they make their way to the back-up teleporter device. Every so often the Director of Photography shakes the camera to tell us the planet is unstable. In between the "excitement" we're treated to some fairly lame interpersonal dialogue. Sean Patrick Flanery makes the best of the dreadful script. The special effects are about as cheesy as you can get. Otherwise, it's a great romp.