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Summary: The Best monster movie ever and Peter Hyam's best
Review: This is one great monster movie, better than last year Deep Blue Sea, Bats, and Lake Placid. The special effect is excellent and Tom Sizemore is great in this movie (I think he is better here than in Saving Private Ryan. The DVD soundtrack is also very good with good sense of being there. The same however can not be said on the picture quality. I think the DVD picture is way too dark and I have to turn up brightness control all the way up in order to have a decent picture. This fact prevented it from being a 5 stars movie.
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Summary: The Relic Rules!
Review: This movie sucks you in and never lets go! I am sure you know the plot by now so I'll go right into the review!Great Effects from Stan Winston! Just buy this video! You'll love it!
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Summary: very gory, very good monster movie
Review: the basic plot: monster from south america is loose in a chicago museum, likes to decapitate people, and there happens to be a big social gathering for all the big wigs of the city inside the museum. now, one is just asking for death and chaos there. it does take a while to get to see the whole monster. the director exposes only bits and pieces of the beast at first. also all the characters have to be introduced; the origin of the beast explained, more or less. if you have a short attention span and hate dialogue, you will be bored. however if your like me, sit through the story and it'll be worth the wait. when the monster shows fully, the special effects are simply astounding. to say they are cheesy or fake is just not right. when the swat team arrives on the scene, prepare to be blown away. the monster, Kothoga, is ruthless. this is a monster movie and it delivers in a big way... it maybe too dark in certain scenes but director hyams plays with light like crazy. whether its lights from flashlights or police lights, it'll be really noticeable. however, avoid the pan and scan tape; alot is lost... this movie really satisfies only in widescreen. if your looking for a very effective monster movie, sit down with Kothoga and his numerous headless victims. you will not be disappointed.
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Summary: Scary but too scientific
Review: A great premise, and a great location for a story, in a museum, but this film suffers from an abundance of technobabble in its plot. Basically, there is a monster at large in a museum, and the stars (Tom Sizemore & Penelope Ann Miller) have to catch and kill it. The trouble is, this thing is big, fast and with an insatiable appetite for human glands. Peter Hyams (End of Days, 2010:The Year we make Contact) creates a huge amount of tension by shooting most of this film in the dark, using only minimal lighting. When the creature attacks, and is eventually revealed, it is a truly frightening sight. But the thing that stopped me giving this film five stars was the lack of true characterisation, and the amount of scientific gobbledygook spouted to explain the existence of this creature. Otherwise, a true thriller for lovers of the creature feature. The DVD i got was not exactly packed with features; all i could find was the trailer. Sound is great (I am now a true Hyams fan) and the picture is sharp and clear. A great film spoilt by a DVD lacking in the features department.
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Summary: the Relic
Review: A Brazilian ship is floating around in Lake Misigan. When the police brings it in, they can see no people onboard. After a while they find everybody, capitulated in the cargo room. They assume that it's caused some drug deal, but all they can find is boxes to a museum in Chicago. The boxes are filled with relic's, but one of them just contain some leaves. Margo (Penelope Ann Miller) discovers some egg's one those leaves, and she starts to study them. The next day when she come to the museum, there are police. One of the staff has been killed, so has to children who had been there after the museum closed. When she gets back to work, some of the egg's have been opened, but what ever it was that where in there is gone. She could off cause not guess that those small egg's, with help from some relic's, could become a big monster, so the police accepts that the museum can have guest the next day. Now, there are also a monster to join them, let the party begin... This is one of the best horror movies of the late ninety's. It's scary, the special effects is made by Stan Winston, the same man who also created the monster's in "Alien" and the dinosaur's in "Jurassic Park". I cant help thinking that Penelope Ann look's incredible cute, even though she must be in her late twenties. We also have Tom Sizemore (from "Heat") as the cop D'agosta. You watch this one , even if you don't like horror or monster movies.
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Summary: Not scary
Review: I'm not scared at all , I'm impressed with the monster action and the DTS sound effect .. It's not fair to compare this movies with alien .. If the darkness atomsphere makes the things scary , turn the lights ON and the TV OFF .
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Summary: One very reluctant star!
Review: This movie was truly terrible. I am still not quite sure what the film was about even though I wasted two valuable hours of my life trying to find out. I believe it had to do with a monster eating people in a museum. The highlight was definitely when the main characters started to die because I did not have to sit through any more of their insipid dialogue. Unfortunately my happiness at seeing them "kick the bucket" was somewhat tempered by the fact that it was utterly obvious it was going to happen. For the love of God, if you want to waste your time renting a movie with no point see Encino Man because even it is more socially relevant.
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Summary: Truly Terribly
Review: This movie is quite possibly the most heinous act against humanity. You name it, it lacks it. Bad acting. Bad plot. Bad special effects. Bad cinematography. Bad lighting. Bad sound efects. Bad scripting. Bad directing. The list goes on. What did the relic itself even have to do with the movie? Maybe they thought it'd be a cool name to give the movie, though it really shouldn't be called that. It is a motion picture filled with meaningless vapid sound and sight that could only entertain a hyena or those of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 persuasion. This cliche-ridden trash almost puts Plan 9 from Outer Spoace to shame. The absolute predictability of *every* event in the movie certainly helped it none, and the fact that it tried to hard to be frightening makes it all the more laughable. Don't think for one second of buying this movie, unless you plan to burn it in effigy of the Dark Prince. A truly poor film, a waste of space, time and money, The Relic succeeds where few other films have in having virtually no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Even unsavory elements, so desiable in this time, were not present. Oh, and did I mention a total lack of realism?
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Summary: Not as good as the book, but...
Review: still a fun monster movie. They changed so much from the book that it seems even more implausible than it did in the book. I like both the leads in the show, but thought it stupid that they eliminated the colorful Pendergast character, and seem to have precluded a sequel based on The Reliquary. Taken on it's own merits, I enjoy watching this film, and try not to think about how it could have been done better. Suspense, action, office politics that backfire spectacularly, and a cool monster.
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Summary: The Creature is Impressive
Review: Though I had my doubts about The Relic, I admit that it is a pretty good and entertaining monster/horror movie. The creature is definately worth seeing the movie. There are some good scares and plenty of action. The story and cast are okay.
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