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Was re-reading the David Seltzer tie in and kind of got the urge to check this out again. While not great by any means, not really bad at all and I can certainly dig the message-told You I grew up in the 70's
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The only real beef I could have other than the uneven acting by Robert/Talia-think Adrienne Barbeau would have been a better female lead, at least we might have gotten a bathing suit scene
-is the Monster is shown too soon. Think the family;y massacre scene would have worked better without seeing it and think it would have had a bigger impact having it burst into the camp after Hector says "Welcome". Also watching it walk into the water, all I could think of was Godzilla and hearing Robert mutter "It drowned!" 100 times was too much...almost wanted to toss him in!
Al beefing aside, the whole idea is frightening that if we screw with Mother Nature, she will kick our ass BIG TIME. Robert is quite good when he makes the connection with Mercury,the Mill and the forest...the dawning realization that things are seriously bad. Also, I find the deformed cubs in the poacher's net quite frightening...pretty intense scene for Me anyway. ***