Director: Tyler James
Year: 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Creature Feature
Plot:
After a disastrous accident at sea, a company sends a rescue team to look into what happened and they arrive on the spot to begin their search only to find the truth when a massive sea serpent appears to attack the ship, forcing them to put a stop to the creatures’ rampage to leave alive.
Review:
Overall, this is a pretty enjoyable if somewhat flawed genre effort. Most of the film’s positives are centered around the admittedly enjoyable and cheesy creature attacks that come about through here. The mixture of underwater and top-side attacks that feature the creature attacking their equipment and machinery in these various locales is quite fun with the better-than-expected if still quite obvious CGI creation interacting with submarines, dive cages, or the crew while standing around on the deck of the ship has some cheesy qualities involved for a fun time. Even the revelation about the secondary type of creature that spawns in the bowels of the shop following an attack is quite fun with the series of cheesy chases and encounters that come about which give this some decent gore effects as well. Overall, these are enough to be likable and worthwhile.
There are some issues to be had here. The main drawback to this one is that, for a film as short as this one, it wastes far too much time on the mind-numbing interactions with the crew that aren’t interesting or appropriate for this kind of project. The way it spends time trying to engage in small talk about their relationships or engaging in duplicitous espionage covering up the truth about what they’re hunting all just isn’t that interesting in how mundane or cliched these respective facets of the story are. It takes up a pretty healthy chunk of the first half trying to determine that the crew has been duped about their purpose so these scenes just come off as dull, especially with the unprofessionalism of their approach to the job which is carried out with the kind of lackadaisical energy that comes from not knowing the profession well enough with the way they approach crises that should be quite obvious here.
This extends into the other drawback here in the wholly cheap presentation that comes about. As mentioned, the creature’s presentation and general activity are usually better-than-expected computer effects that let the spectacle on offer give away its presentation so most of these scenes are quite goofy and silly. The ship scenes have the opposite problem where the presentation is simply using the wrong types of characters that have no formal training or purpose for being here so this can close off any hope of this one working by completely sucking any sense of realism out of the scenario. Also, for being so short the overlong finale that drags everything out endlessly with no real action or confrontations with either creature is a massively disappointing effort with very little about it that’s enjoyable, and altogether these factors come together into a somewhat disappointing effort.
Overview: **/5
A really cheesy and problematic creature feature, this one has enough to like about it but there are some problematic issues that manage to hold this one down in the long run over what it could’ve been. Those who are fine with these factors or are fans of the creative crew will enjoy this one the most while most others out there should heed caution with this one.
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