mrfredhickson
Everything you can do WRONG they did..... repeatedly. And guess which character dies in the end............................ YOU GUESSED IT!!!
Benedito Dias Rodrigues
Leviathan is Italian-American co-production the sets is wonderful and the cast is quite good with Peter Weller,Richard Crenna,Daniel Stern,Ernie Hudson and the gorgeous Amanda Pays,the story isn't original but looks good but the type of monsters is awful....every movie is that way could be more creative and didn't make like this in minutes the monster grew up is hard to believe.....waste a picture well produced and throw by scream all work well done!!!Sci-Fi needs news brains to make better movies,let's look ahead!!!
Michael_Elliott
Leviathan (1989)** 1/2 (out of 4) An underwater mining group led by Steven Beck (Peter Weller) are enjoying their last couple days on the job when a couple of their crew members stumble across a sunken Russian ship. They take a safe from the ship and soon realize something went terribly wrong but no one knows exactly what. They soon find out when one of the members pretty much begins to melt and soon a new creature is born.LEVIATHAN is often called an ALIEN rip-off but I guess if you want to be fair you should call it a rip of ALIENS since it had just recently been in theaters and made a small fortune. This film here obviously doesn't have the same budget but for the most part I thought it was a fairly entertaining mix of sci-fi and horror. It's certainly not a classic by any stretch of the imagination but there are enough good moments to make it worth sitting through.One of the funniest things watching the movie today is seeing all the familiar faces. Everyone will remember Weller from ROBOCOP but we've got a strong supporting group of character actors including Richard Crenna, Daniel Stern, Amanada Pays, Ernie Hudson, Lisa Eilbacher, Meg Foster and Hector Elizondo. While the screenplay certainly doesn't have much character development you can still like and enjoy them because you're so familiar with the actors. There's no doubt that liking the actors help keep you more interested in everything that is going on.On a technical level the film is quite impressive. We're given some brilliant cinematography and there's also an effective score and some very good editing. At just 98-minutes the film begins to lose some steam in the second half but the biggest problem is the actual monster. For the majority of the screen time the monster is just a slug like creature, which eventually turns into a monster but it comes way too late in the game. I really think the film would have been much better had it been given a more interesting monster.With that said, LEVIATHAN is a mildly entertaining film that has enough going for it to make it worth sitting through.
jokerswild1
There's no shortage of horror/science fiction films that heavily ape Alien and The Thing. This is certainly one of those films, and it's pretty solid.The cast is pretty great. All the characters are basically archetypes, but they're played well by Peter Weller and Amanda Pays especially. I'm a big fan of Daniel Stern, but I think he's kind of miscast as the "jerky slob" of the group, and Meg Foster (those eyes!) is a bit obviously up to no good.The production design is fantastic, the deep sea station looks great in every single room. Jerry Goldsmith also composed a great score for this, his use of recorded whale sounds makes the score very memorable and unique. Stan Winston's creature effects are good, but the direction generally doesn't showcase them that well.Even though it blatantly lifts from Alien and The Thing, I pretty much enjoy this a lot until the last five minutes, which suddenly take a huge nosedive. Sharks pointlessly arrive, and then the Sixpack/Bowman monster makes its appearance (pretty contrived that it would suddenly show up again and make it to the surface that quickly, although to be fair the protagonists get up there pretty quick too) and kills Jones, which is just unnecessary. Then, how is the monster killed? By blowing it up of course! Even though it's been established that the independent body parts of the creature can live and mutate others, so this is no solution.I still like the movie, but the last few minutes drag it down from an 8/10 to a 7/10. Should've just ended with them getting on the helicopter, and if they really needed to address the other monster they ought to have just included an earlier scene where it got back on the station and merged with the other one.
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